The Lemon Fool

ReformedCharacter wrote:
It sounds as if your company assistant falls into the 'obstinacy and general stupidity' category. But at least you've cleared that one up.

RC.

Wow, that's unpleasant. No, she's just 24 and in her first job, she is neither stupid nor obstinate. I assume someone told her to say that or she overheard someone else saying it. She was fine with me asking her to say something different.

Mel

melonfool wrote:

ReformedCharacter wrote:
It sounds as if your company assistant falls into the 'obstinacy and general stupidity' category. But at least you've cleared that one up.

RC.

Wow, that's unpleasant. No, she's just 24 and in her first job, she is neither stupid nor obstinate. I assume someone told her to say that or she overheard someone else saying it. She was fine with me asking her to say something different.

Mel

No, I wasn't commenting on your assistant personally, perhaps if I had written It sounds as if your example of your company assistant falls into the 'obstinacy and general stupidity' category it would have made it clearer. When I get that sort of response from someone, I blame the company not the individual because, as you suggest, 'someone told her to say that or she overheard someone else saying it'.

RC

It's an interesting debate about the DPA and security. People tend to take completely opposite views on it. I tend to feel that using photographs and fingerprints just to provide a meal service is overkill and there should be absolute confidentiality. At one company I worked at the IT staff would often browse through the Security ID photos folder to see who could find the hottest/weirdest staff photos.

Photography of children is an entirely different debate and as a keen photographer I'm glad I lived through a more innocent age.

foundone wrote:Photography of children is an entirely different debate and as a keen photographer I'm glad I lived through a more innocent age.

Im sure many of feel similarly.

Even at childrens' parties and church picnics no-one seems sure any longer whether to risk someone else's child slipping into an innocent picture of their children, to say nothing of group photographs. O tempora o mores!