That Would Be Excrement of a Bovine Persuasion

Bullshit is everywhere. To be polite we call it spin but everyone knows it’s bullshit and it’s inescapable. And pointless.

This morning when I went to the end of the road to retrieve the emptied bin, there was a letter attached. The first paragraph is as follows, verbatim including inexplicable capitals.

“In Today’s society, public awareness of the problems of waste is increasing and as your Environmental partner, Oxigen welcomes this as an opportunity to help build a more sustainable society and in turn reduce our carbon footprint. To assist with this, both bins (waste and recycling) will be collected together on a fortnightly basis in dual chamber collection vehicles”

What this should say is as follows;

“An analysis of our accounts has revealed that we are not making as much money as we would like to on your route and need to slash as much cost as we possibly can regardless of the impact on our customers and employees. To assist with this, both bins (waste and recycling) will be collected together on a fortnightly basis in dual chamber collection vehicles”.

Any kind of spin is hard to take but bad spin, absolute shite of the level of that paragraph is baffling. Do they think the children of the house are going to be the only ones reading this? Did it not cross their minds that this masterpiece might find its way into the hands of the odd mentally competent adult?

A senior functionary in this organization signed off on this tripe. It probably went through a few drafts until it was deemed to be sufficiently repugnant and insulting to our intelligence before the approved stamp was produced.

I’ve said it before; there ain’t no troika gonna save us now.