Wednesday, September 15, 2004

IBM - International Bloody Misery!

We have an MSN - style instant messenger application at work - called Sametime / Notes Buddy - depends what mood / how old you are. We also have an internal employee directory called BluePages, a subsection called a Persona Page - to which you can upload a photo. In typical techie style, everyone has adopted their own persona's. For example, hardcore techies have the Linux Penguin, Rich has Cartman from Southpark, and I have a slightly amended version of a Southpark character with a Newcastle United strip, and so on and so on. Anyhow, in their wisdom, management have decided that they dont have anything to do this month, and have now ordered people to remove these photos as its breaking some dodgy ITCS rule and regulat and it doesnt look very good with the customers.

Digging around I've found the following;
  1. pl. per·so·nas or per·so·nae (-n) A voice or character representing the speaker in a literary work.
  2. pl. personas The role that one assumes or displays in public or society; one's public image or personality, as distinguished from the inner self.
  3. personae The characters in a dramatic or literary work.

Now, I cant see anything in the above, to state that persona means you have to be a morky twat and chained to your desk without being able to crack a joke - idiots!

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