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Time to reward the non-achievers
As the first leaves of autumn begin to fall, we have an innovation for you: the first annual Backbytes man or woman of the year award.
While many awards focus on the famous, rich or powerful high-achievers in society, we don’t. We realise that if all of you worked hard and acted responsibly, we would not have any readers.
So, we’d like you to nominate a colleague, a business contact or a friend who you feel has been outstandingly successful at being unsuccessful this year.
It may be a dedication to pulling sickies. It may be an uncanny ability to avoid responsibility. It may be a refusal to embrace change. Or it may simply be for an example of quite staggering incompetence. We’ll consider anything.
There are only two rules: the actions which inspired the nomination must have occurred this year, and the person in question has to be named. We will publish a few of the best nominations, then create a shortlist for you to vote on in time for Christmas.
And as an added inspiration, we’ll send champagne to our person of the year and to the nominator. Good luck, incompetents everywhere. We couldn’t survive without you.
have you thought this through?
With a libel lawyer present?
It might be a good idea before you publish a list of names of 'non-achievers' especially in the era of no-win no-fee defamation cases.
bon chance, mes ami.
Posted by :simon | September 20, 2007 9:36 AM
I'd like to nominate myself in the staggering incompetence field.
I wanted to tidy up the cabling around my desk after comments from my boss. I decided to cut a standard IEC mains lead down to the correct length, so lopped the end off, stripped the cable back, and spent ages making the individual wires exactly the correct length in the plug. The whole thing must have taken 30 mins at least. It wasn't until I had finished and went to plug the lead in that I noticed that I had connected the new plug to the part of the lead that I had meant to discard. So I now have a lead with a mains plug on both ends.
And yes, I am technical support.
Posted by :Robin Edmonds | September 21, 2007 9:43 AM