Wednesday, 01 July 2009

• On my way to... uhm... work... In...

  Amsterdam, Netherlands

  

  "Hey," a colleague told me the other week. "You've not updated your blog for a while! What's happening?"

  "Yeah, sometimes I get a mail from G," another friend said, "and he will ask me what it was what you meant with what you wrote about work on your blog."

  "You're running behind on your blog!" - another colleague, last week.

  "Oh hi! Nice to meet you!" said yet another colleague, who is in Amsterdam on a temporary basis. "Good to finally see you in person! I've read your blog, and sometimes L tells me to check your blog out as well."

  And then, this morning. The scene: the CEO office. The CEO made a joke. Then he said...

  "Don't put that on your blog, Enrico. M was here the other day and he told me about your blog and that you wrote something about P returning to the company. What was it?" Needless to say that I didn't answer that question. That post was removed long ago, just a couple of days after I wrote it, and there's a reason for that. It could have gotten me fired at the time.

  When did this happen? When did I get hijacked by my blog? I really try not to write about work too often (today being the obvious exception) and if I do I only try to express my own feelings about that work day, and I certainly wouldn't disclose any sensitive business information. And still, it sometimes seems that others are more interested in this blog than I am myself. That's kinda funny and kinda odd.

  Anyhoo - the picture of the day. Suddenly posters appeared all over town with the message "Do you have to leave yourself at home when you go out?", with a mention of a Dutch anti discrimination web site. The one in the picture above focuses - obviously - on discrimination on the grounds of homosexuality, but there are also other version against racial discrimination, for example. I think these posters are really great. Because discrimination is always around the corner and vigilance is always necessary.

  For example, suddenly, in the Netherlands, after more than 15 years of having had legal protection, it is allowed again for a gay teacher to get fired from a Christian school, for the sole reason that he or she is gay - because of a recent ruling of the Netherlands Supreme Court. That's putting the clock backwards - and that makes posters like these more than just a nice sight - it makes them highly necessary.

  In the future, of course, I will only blog about stuff like this. No more mentioning of work. Maybe.

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