It might be called Kafkaesque, that this talk focuses on bureaucracy and its tyrranical absurdities, while Kafka’s most important contribution was, not simply to highlight the tyrrany of bureaucracy, but the horrors of authoritarianism. So much for relying on intelligent talks coming from Ted. But then again, fascism has swept
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Left Over: Your Call Is, Truly, Unimportant to Us, Stay on the Line..or Hang Up, we Don’t Care…
Customer service is becoming more Kafkaesque by the day Companies like to deflect problems with call-centre bureaucracy then use social media to show they’re just like us. They’re not Oscar Rickett theguardian.com, Thursday 2 October 2014 14.26 BST Here is an article i read in the Guardian, and
Continue readingmark a rayner | scribblings, squibs & sundry monkey joys: Food for thought
Work has kept me away from my latest long fiction project for a while, and this quote keeps floating around my head. (That, and some kind of growling sound…) Alltop only growls when it’s happy. That cool background photo is … Continue reading →
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