In the old days I received a printed request form in my in-box at work. Ran the report they asked for and mailed it back via interoffice mail.

Then I started getting request forms via email. I'd run the report and email it back to them.

Now? I get a request via email. Or Teams. Or the intranet project site. Or ProposalTech. Or SharePoint. Or the newest custom software package. The last three of which are ALL different, ALL practically impossible to figure out, and ALL a huge pain in the ass.

But it gets better. Now I get requests via one of the proprietary platforms that say "please respond on another platform, but mark as done on this platform."

And then sometimes I have to email them AS WELL.

Do you know how much money they spend on these various new platforms? Some of them are custom, or customized for the company. I was involved in an early project like that, and it cost tens of thousands of dollars AT LEAST - and that was back in the 1990s.

But EACH NEW PLATFORM makes my work so much harder. They're picked by executives who don't understand them, won't ever use them, and won't even ever look at the output. But we all know we have to get in line or be FIRST in line when the time comes for layoffs.

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#introduction

Hello everybody,
I'm a bit lost here, coming from "traditional" social platforms. I have no idea how this works and to top it all I'm also too shy to enter people's conversations.

So let me introduce myself: I'm a Romanian artist, I paint in oil and acrylic. I am also a voracious reader, always on the lookout for new books. I enjoy most of all historical ones - fiction and non fiction, classic literature is my comfort food, yet I'll not refuse a good mystery or thriller.

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Were we unhappy or sublime?
We’ll have to wait until the next time
an angel comes rapping at the door
to rejoice docently."

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Honestly, by John Ashbery (2015 Academy of American Poets) https://poets.org/poem/honestly

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Can I bring your attention to one of the best security write-ups I’ve read in a long while.

Bravo, Davi.

@mttaggart flagged this one to me.

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