The Importance of Shared Sacrifice At the beginning of the month of October, citizens in my country began a new budget year. This year's budget, proposed by the sitting government and read before Parliament last week, introduced a number of measures styled to manage the nation's resources, and for those in favor, the proposed measures are prudent. The measures included: A reduction in our energy subsidy, A hike in utility rates, A cap on the 4% wage increase offer to public…
Do You Gossip on Company Email? Do you exchange gossip, rant, and get into spats using your work email? Maybe you shouldn't. Here's why. **Company emails can be accessed by your IT Department**. Unless you're okay with your IT tech sitting down with a soda and bag of popcorn, going through the gory details of your personal life, maybe you'd want to limit the things you share. Also, even if the IT team did not access your email and cared little about your thoughts of the day,…
Why I will not be tuning in to Jeffrey Dahmer's Monster on Netflix A few days ago, there was a flurry on WhatsApp because of an incident that had occurred a couple streets away from ours. Some men were sitting together under a tree playing cards, some other men passed by, there was a drive by, a dust up, the men playing cards scattered, and when the smoke cleared, the shell of one man was left lying in the streets. Years gone by, this story would have led to the community…
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Influence, power, and the god complex Recently, American rapper, designer and business mogul, Kanye West, got into a public spat with his peers over a design choice- a slogan on a t-shirt at a fashion show. As is very often the case with Kanye projects, his designs sparked controversy. The Internet was ablaze with responses, some understanding and in agreement with his perspective, many others calling out the design and suggesting that it was dangerous. Kanye, of course,…
Paying My Respects to a Giant When I was a little girl, ten years old, I was given my first fountain pen. Back then, when I was a child in the late 80s/ early 90s, fountain pens were messy contraptions. You were given a bottle with ink and you had to dip the nib of the pen in the ink and suction ink into the pen's cartridge. It was a messy process. Bottles fell over. Our fingers were stained. The first ink from the pens were blotchy. But we enjoyed using our fountain pens…
The social experiment In the days before social media pulled back the curtain on our private lives, exposing our nakedness, our shame, our triggers and personality disorders, people with mental health vulnerabilities were confined to their respective communities where they were viewed as oddities. The girl who walked about with Tourette, for example, or the man who plastered his walls with newspaper clippings and wild curse words projecting that THE END IS NEAR, was treated…
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