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Employers of the world, your prospective employees are not idiots. You wouldn’t be considering hiring them if they were (unless you were looking to hire drug mules or something). They can read subtext as well as, if not better than you can. So you might want to consider a little more closely how the way you handle hiring new staff makes you look. Here are a few suggestions to get you started:  But sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do. There was a headline on last night’s MX letterpage that asked “Wit gives you the right to be cruel?” The letter it related to was a plea for people to be nicer to celebrities like Amy Winehouse, so that we have fewer celebrity depressions and so on. It got me wondering, admittedly at something of tangent, whether wit does give you the right to be cruel. We spent absolutely millions redeveloping a station that was working pretty well already, and all we got to show for it was a prestigious architectural award (the Lubetkin Prize, if you’re curious). No, it really is. Because, you see, Metro Trains has decided that your personal safety is an obstacle to its profit margin. It’s all made clear in this article from yesterday’s Age. Hi there! You probably don’t need me to tell you that you’re the world’s pre-eminent site for search. However, having just spent a fruitless hour on your site looking for a way to send you a message, I can tell you that you are almost certainly unaware of how ironic that is. As you probably know if you’ve spent much time wandering around on this site, I have devoted a fairly considerable amount of time to working out what order events in various fictional universes – primarily comics universes – take place in. This takes a not inconsiderable amount of research, since it means reading most – if not all – of the comics listed. It’s been a while since I finished the Festival of Rants, and I only realised recently that I missed one of my favourites. So without further ado: Finally, the greatest movie rant of all time. In deference to its sheer awesomeness, all commentary will be deferred until after the clip: Surprisingly few rants actually set out a concrete agenda – most of them are happy just to blow some steam. But every so often, a ranter comes along who transcends the form, and actually delivers a program for action. Such a ranter is Happy Harry Hardon. Very few rants get to become part of the foundation of a genre, but this one did. Bluto’s rant in “Animal House“ became a part of the cultural landscape in a way few others ever have. The rant in modern cinema has often been drug-fueled, at least by the character. It’s an open question just how much of the ranting of Dennis Hopper’s never-named photographer in Apocalypse Now is truly the character, and how much is just Hopper. Continue reading The Festival of Rants: #4 “…1 through 9, no maybes, no supposes, no fractions…” When you’re talking about cinematic rants, there’s any number of great ones, but there’s a peculiarly modern type that was more or less inaugrated by Mr. Paddy Chayefsky in his Oscar-winning screenplay for the 1976 film “Network“. |
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