Watching the Void

Good Business Sense

The thing which really annoys me, and the thing I so often see whenever I find myself on yet another business-only blog, is the whole ‘we are trying to help everyone, it isn’t only about our own business’ malarkey. But that’s the thing, isn’t it? It really is usually only about the business in question. What proof is there that power-hungry businesses want to love and support those around them? Usually none. Fortunately that isn’t the case at the following blog.

Yes, you read correctly: not everyone is like that; there are some people out there who are businesses and also strive to make other peoples lives easier as well.

As ever, Enigin continue to set a bench-mark that most businesses either fail to see, or if they do see, deliberately set fire to with their commerce-encompassing, couldn’t-care-less attitudes.

At the aforementioned post you’ll discover loads of ammunition which will make your boss wilt in his or her seat, and that you can pass on to your colleagues–good advice for making everyone work as well in a team as they do when there isn’t someone jumping on their back. The basic premise is that by offering assistance with things like social-networking, a company can benefit—by having happier workers—and the employee can also benefit just as much by having the right tools for doing the job right. The end result? Less a business and more a happy family—something that seems far-fetched but is the very ethos Enigin is built on.

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Being All Heroic

Those magnificent Heroes, don’t you just love watching them pretend to be all boring and normal and every-day, when actually they make Superman look a bit pathetic and Spiderman, well, almost redundant? The world has gone Heroes crazy! But if that’s the case then how come nobody seems to know who plays any of these mysterious characters? Back in my day a fan knew all that and more! So much more!

So how come some modern fans can’t tell a so and so’s Jock-strap from a so and so’s special designer boxers? Good question. And not one I can answer. My assumption would be that these people are so excited about watching the next episode that they just can’t stand to sit still through the end credits. Which would be understandable: I have seen Heroes and been blown away on numerous occassions. Yes, Heroes might be one of my favourite shows on TV. Mainly because it isn’t about Vampires and to be honest I’ve had it to the back teeth with those things!

The internet, though, what a tool if you’re a fan? I can’t even begin to imagine what hardcore fans did before forums like this one existed; and maybe that is why they seem to have become less fanatical? That could be it; they’ve got lazy. Had the internet not come to fruition—and the fans been forced to do it the old fashioned proper way: as in climb trees, shuffle through miles of ventilation ducts and scale tall buildings with suction pads, as is well known—then I’m reasonably confident that all those Heroes would be watching their backs a lot more than they are.

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Mansplaining

One new and considerably useful word I came across whilst surfing the internet was the curious notion of ’mainsplaining’. What’s mainsplaning, you ask? Unfortunately, I can pretty much assure that it’s something that, as a woman, you’ve come across in your life time.
Mainsplaining refers to when a man explains something to a woman in a patronizing manner, as though she’s entirely ignorant about whatever it is that he’s talking about. Ah, is that a look of recognition I see on your face? Yes, I think that that’s indeed what it might be.
We’ve now entered the year 2010, a time by which time I would have imagined that equality between the sexes would have been pretty much worked out. Unfortunately, this is not the case, and mansplaining and all of its related problems still abound. You’ll find that mansplaining tends to take place most often around ’important’ subjects, ie, subjects that men like to consider their own personal domain. Of course, we, as just a motley assortment of educated and successful women, surely have no idea what they’re talking about. This is why issues around politics, history, technology, and anything remotely to do with an instruction manual is always mansplained to us in simple, basic language as though we’ve never encountered it before in our lives.
In order to combat this insidious practice on mansplaining, it’s essential that women speak out against it when it occurs. If you understand something, don’t let a man think that you don’t. Don’t let him talk over the top of you and pretend that your ideas are his. To wipe out mansplaining altogether, we need to show that we’re smart, articulate, and are determined to have our say. Speaking of amazing women, some thrilling news for you all, I was speaking to my friend last week and she has just got a great new post at an human resources software company. Well done Si!