{"id":19386,"date":"2016-05-14T01:50:16","date_gmt":"2016-05-14T00:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19386"},"modified":"2016-05-14T01:50:16","modified_gmt":"2016-05-14T00:50:16","slug":"sainsburys-mcshame-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=19386","title":{"rendered":"Sainsbury’s McShame Face"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the words of Kent Brockman, I\u2019ve said this before and I\u2019ll say it again \u2013 democracy simply doesn\u2019t work.\"Kent<\/p>\n

The UK has been the laughing stock of the world recently, with the insane decision to invite the public to suggest names for a new Arctic research ship<\/a>. Far and away the clear winner was \u201cBoaty McBoatface\u201d. Fortunately, intelligence still clings desperately to bits of wreckage in the ocean of stupidity, some of which is still bobbing around among the idiots who decided to let the public get involved in the first place.<\/p>\n

The ship will be called the RRS Sir David Attenborough \u2013 which is what it should have been called from the start without having involved people who shouldn\u2019t be allowed to vote or breed.<\/p>\n

The Australians, who are about to name an ice-breaking ship, have said they want to avoid \u201ca Boaty McBoatface situation.\u201d I mean, the Aussies<\/strong> are looking down at us. How bad is that? <\/p>\n

Someone called John Walker \u2013 one of those people under the misapprehension that they\u2019re funny \u2013 has said he will name any future child he has \u201cBoaty McBoatface\u201d in protest. If only we could be certain that he was joking. I mean, completely<\/strong> certain.<\/p>\n

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In the UK, people took to their keyboards to say the decision not to pick the name Boaty was anti-democratic.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The imbeciles who let it get this far have even attempted to suggest the affair was \u201cgood for science\u201d<\/a>. What they didn\u2019t make clear was that the sort of science likely to have benefited was the kind you\u2019d find in a play school environment. You know \u2013 let\u2019s build a model bridge (out of sparkles and split red lentils). Or, let\u2019s paint a picture of a house (using sparkles and split red lentils). Or, let\u2019s grow some lentils (and add some sparkles).<\/p>\n

But it appears that Sainsbury\u2019s is also under the control of the kind of idiots I used to work for<\/a>, and for whom the end result is irrelevant as long as a lot of people are involved in getting to it. Their Camden Road store placed an ad in the local newspaper asking for an artist to paint their canteen for free.<\/p>\n

You can probably already see the precise point at which Sainsbury\u2019s lost the plot and became the target for thousands of retards whose sorry little lives revolve around social media. I mean, the average \u201cartist\u201d in London \u2013 especially if he\u2019s out of work, and especially if he\u2019s the kind Sainsbury\u2019s no doubt had in mind \u2013 is likely to have already been on the steering committee of the \u201cvote Boaty\u201d party anyway. Then consider that it is Camden we\u2019re talking about, and that ramps things up a few more notches. Then consider that Sainsbury\u2019s most recent profits were declared at \u00a3681 million on sales of over \u00a325 billion. The brains of these \u201cartists\u201d will reach meltdown pretty quickly.<\/p>\n

Ordinarily, though, it would just be a story about crassness. However, when you get to this bit, you once again see democracy at work:<\/p>\n

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The advert was placed in the local paper following a colleague discussion<\/strong> around ways to improve the canteen\u2026<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A \u201ccolleague discussion\u201d, eh? That sounds suspiciously like a team meeting to me. I can see the flipcharts and free doughnuts already. It takes even less effort to imagine how some idiot \u201ccolleague\u201d suggested that a Banksy-wannabe monstrosity on the canteen wall while they ate their tofu salad would somehow increase productivity (though not in those words). Trying to get a radical, out of work artist to do it unpaid was probably one of the better ideas.<\/p>\n

Actually, it\u2019s quite funny watching people so easily putting their foot in their mouth as a result of social media, these days. I wonder how much longer it will take them to realise that those who use social media as a substitute for a life aren\u2019t worth bothering with. Don\u2019t try to avoid upsetting them, don\u2019t worry if you do, and for God\u2019s sake don\u2019t engage with them unnecessarily \u2013 even if they are \u201ca colleague\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sainsbury\u2019s, though, has gone all defensive and apologetic, which is absolutely the worst thing they could have done. To start with, they\u2019re now implying that the \u201ccolleagues\u201d were wrong. Yet there is no real reason why the store couldn\u2019t (or shouldn\u2019t) have asked someone to work unpaid any more than there\u2019s a reason why they couldn\u2019t (or shouldn\u2019t) have offered a large sum of money. It\u2019s up to them. As I said above, choosing the former option is merely a case of crassness, brought about by an incompetent attempt to be \u201cdemocratic\u201d and involve the workforce.<\/p>\n

Sainsbury\u2019s store management should have told their staff they were getting a couple of coats of magnolia, and that keeping their jobs should be incentive enough to maintain productivity. That would have been the end of the matter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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