BOFH: Carbon Neutrality (Episode 4)
Posted in Personal Stuff by John E. Pannell on February 4th, 2008 at 5:42 am God bless the British for their cutting sense of humor! A computer geek friend of mine acquainted me with this “series” of columns. This one begins:
“What’re they for?” the PFY asks as the Boss rolls in a trolley load of brightly coloured plastic bins.“They’re for our recycling initiative,” the Boss responds. “Red for plastic, white for paper, yellow for cardboard and blue for polystyrene.”
“What about glass?” the PFY asks.
“Glass is to be sorted by colour into bins in the basement,” the Boss replies.
“Hmmm… And what’s driving this initiative?” I ask.
“The… company has decided to become carbon neutral by the year 2010 – and so they’re moving to implement recycling prior to the announcement being made in the press.”
“Carbon neutral in three years?” the PFY says dubiously.
“Yes. Obviously it will take longer for the whole company to convert to this but in the meantime we’re planning to implement recycling, energy saving measures and implement the purchasing of carbon credits.”
“Carbon credits!” I sneer, unable to suppress the derision in my voice.
Obvioulsy this is satire. No company operates like this, right? … RIGHT??
You can find the rest of this episode and more here, http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/02/01/bofh_episode_4/, at The Register.
N.B.: Some abbreviations probably need explanation. BOFH is the bastard operator from Hell. PFY is the pimply faced youth.
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