I have an opinion about informing people.
If you inform people about something that's going to change some one's personal situation you do it personally.
Management must think that it wasn't the case for them.
Thursday/Friday we all could read the Organisational plan on the Intranet. Including the plans which have huge effect on some people... to put it bluntly, your present job will be no longer there in the new organisation.
Then the employer should tell what their obligations are. He has a lot of them.
But it wasn't that way. It was just a message on the intranet.
I wrote 2 emails to the Works Council colleagues. I telephoned with 1 colleague whose job is in the danger zone. On my department I spoke with a colleague who visited the gathering about the plans. He is positive and sees chances for the present employees.
I must admit that.
If I was real cynical, I should say it's a survival of the fittest, natural selection. A Darwinian, sociological and psychological experiment.
Showing posts with label information. Show all posts
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Monday, December 06, 2010
Assange
Julian Assange is the name of the founder of wiki-leaks. After leaking information about Afghanistan, politics are under attack and soon the banks will face public condemnation. About banks, if they aren't already condemned, the huge bonuses are back. This week bonuses will be published. Assange's publication of hidden information about wicked banks, what they do, how they finance, can't be to early because Assange might be caught by justice for a Swedish allegation of sexual harassment.
In the Netherlands we can sign a petition on www.petities.nl
I heard about it in the Works Council and several people signed it.
I don't know what to think about Assange's wiki-leaks. Some things are really good, for example the helicopter shootout on civilians and Reuters photographers in Afghanistan. Other leaks of cables are less clear if it should be leaked. Does Julian Assange know where his legitimacy ends and his responsibility starts?
Transparency is okay, until personal privacy comes in. So the diplomatic cables are not right if you know the sender. Try to anonymize him, success.
In the end when he will be arrested and justice plays a game with him, I will support him. Right now it's to early to sign the petition.
If Assange will be arrested and convicted for wikileaks he might be a marthyr for freedom of speech, freedom of information and transparancy
Countries and Governments can't prevent leaks anymore. The internet is too widespread. It's controlled by itself.
The next video of CSNY "teach your children well" might be about the information era we're in. This confidential information must get to the people. Next video is not watchale for anyone.
In the Netherlands we can sign a petition on www.petities.nl
I heard about it in the Works Council and several people signed it.
I don't know what to think about Assange's wiki-leaks. Some things are really good, for example the helicopter shootout on civilians and Reuters photographers in Afghanistan. Other leaks of cables are less clear if it should be leaked. Does Julian Assange know where his legitimacy ends and his responsibility starts?
Transparency is okay, until personal privacy comes in. So the diplomatic cables are not right if you know the sender. Try to anonymize him, success.
In the end when he will be arrested and justice plays a game with him, I will support him. Right now it's to early to sign the petition.
If Assange will be arrested and convicted for wikileaks he might be a marthyr for freedom of speech, freedom of information and transparancy
Countries and Governments can't prevent leaks anymore. The internet is too widespread. It's controlled by itself.
The next video of CSNY "teach your children well" might be about the information era we're in. This confidential information must get to the people. Next video is not watchale for anyone.
Saturday, September 18, 2010
emotions
This week I had a feeling being tested in life.
I told about the theory I learned from my mental trainer (4 G-theory).
This I learn(ed) because my emotions goes from 0 to 10 very rapidly.
These emotions could be everything, from being afraid to being very angry and I should control them.
Well, in daily life I had 2 opportunities to test it.
The first opportunity was a request to have a list of the colleagues of my old department I still work with. I know there is a digitalized list with also the weekly schedules and telephone numbers of appr. 40 colleagues.
I think it's normal that this information can be given to colleagues who have close contacts. In my opinion this information should be even in the address book in Outlook. In fact all kinds of information should be accessible for employees.
The answer I got was that it wasn't necessary because: 1 I should have no contacts with them directly; 2 the list of colleagues changes constantly.
I couldn't get a worse excuse. Next Monday my coordinator will exchange views about this with my old department. It's just to silly to spend words on like in this paragraph. However it's an example of what gives a boost to my anger.
It's openness of information you know, for our citizens and employees of the municipality. If a Governmental body doesn't show openness can the Government expect that from their citizen? I can put it on paper and address it to the Works Council.
The second test was Friday, yesterday. I had an appointment with my mental trainer. I took my time to go to the address because it was raining cats and dogs. When I arrived I learned that my appointment was cancelled. They tried to reach me but I didn't answer the phone. I don't when I'm at work.
I was sweating because of the biking and an uncontrolled illness (I've been ill for a few weeks, still worked around though) and learned that my coach was ill. At first I was puzzled, didn't they phone me nor email me?
My anger grew. Then I was told that they couldn't reach me at home and they didn't have my email address.
But is my problem with angriness not really simple?
I just wanna speedup things.
faster.... watch this video
I told about the theory I learned from my mental trainer (4 G-theory).
This I learn(ed) because my emotions goes from 0 to 10 very rapidly.
These emotions could be everything, from being afraid to being very angry and I should control them.
Well, in daily life I had 2 opportunities to test it.
The first opportunity was a request to have a list of the colleagues of my old department I still work with. I know there is a digitalized list with also the weekly schedules and telephone numbers of appr. 40 colleagues.
I think it's normal that this information can be given to colleagues who have close contacts. In my opinion this information should be even in the address book in Outlook. In fact all kinds of information should be accessible for employees.
The answer I got was that it wasn't necessary because: 1 I should have no contacts with them directly; 2 the list of colleagues changes constantly.
I couldn't get a worse excuse. Next Monday my coordinator will exchange views about this with my old department. It's just to silly to spend words on like in this paragraph. However it's an example of what gives a boost to my anger.
It's openness of information you know, for our citizens and employees of the municipality. If a Governmental body doesn't show openness can the Government expect that from their citizen? I can put it on paper and address it to the Works Council.
The second test was Friday, yesterday. I had an appointment with my mental trainer. I took my time to go to the address because it was raining cats and dogs. When I arrived I learned that my appointment was cancelled. They tried to reach me but I didn't answer the phone. I don't when I'm at work.
I was sweating because of the biking and an uncontrolled illness (I've been ill for a few weeks, still worked around though) and learned that my coach was ill. At first I was puzzled, didn't they phone me nor email me?
My anger grew. Then I was told that they couldn't reach me at home and they didn't have my email address.
But is my problem with angriness not really simple?
I just wanna speedup things.
faster.... watch this video
Sunday, August 03, 2008
Confidential information
I was just placed some photo's on fotothing. when I noticed that in Belgium campsites have to provide police-authorities with police-notes.
A note on which the traveler has to give private information and his whereabouts. It goes further than the ordinary name, address and nationality. Even the traveler's profession seems to be important. What the heck...I'm traveling-writer and I´m going to Wonderland.
This was the moment something became obvious in my point of view. Is Europe becoming a police-state with an EU-dictatorship? A wise man will say "you'll see".
At work we are transforming to use a kind of Citizen service number. With this number all the information of the Civil Service can be traced and linked to the person concerned. That is scary if you think about it. Big brother is watching us.
A note on which the traveler has to give private information and his whereabouts. It goes further than the ordinary name, address and nationality. Even the traveler's profession seems to be important. What the heck...I'm traveling-writer and I´m going to Wonderland.
This was the moment something became obvious in my point of view. Is Europe becoming a police-state with an EU-dictatorship? A wise man will say "you'll see".
At work we are transforming to use a kind of Citizen service number. With this number all the information of the Civil Service can be traced and linked to the person concerned. That is scary if you think about it. Big brother is watching us.
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