Rise of the machines

Another thing that has got my goat slightly while watching television lately is the pundits crapping on about the loss of billions of pounds to the economy due to decreased productivity and skivving caused by the hot weather. “Managers need to find a way of dealing with the negative impact of hot weather on the workforce” — give me a break. Stuff like this depresses the tits off me; like those adverts for cold remedies that imply that if you don’t struggle in when you’re practically at death’s door, your boss will hate you and you’ll end up as a vagrant. When did progress turn into this? I thought that by the year 2003, machines were supposed to be doing all our work. Instead, machines are merely creating CO2, which makes the place get hotter, which gives our managers concerns about how to continue to screw 9 to 5 out of us despite the fact that we’re sweating bullets and thinking about cold lager. Bloody machines.

Query also exactly who loses the billions of pounds. Yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far and I don’t notice any billions of pounds missing from my bank account.