Holding our meetings on Tuesday is a real pain. Several members cannot attend because they have other commitments on a Tuesday morning and the changing from Wednesday to Tuesday and back again upsets everyone’s routine.
This is clearly affecting attendance. Just 19 this week for a good quality speaker who spoke well about the value of mediation in settling workplace disputes.
The good news – I use the term unenthusiastically – is that we are meeting on Tuesdays for the rest of November. For news on December meetings – watch this space.
The less good news is that we are going to have to wait till next year to trial our new breakfast routine. Members voted at our Club Forum in October to try out a new breakfast order with more fruit and cereals, croissants and the like and just one hot egg dish.
Christopher Robertson, who has been liaising with the hotel on this, reports that the chefs have been too busy to focus on this as a priority, and in any event our request is more complicated than it would seem. So, no new breakfast this year, people. Sorry about that chief, as Maxwell Smart used to say.
On Wednesday I went to the Work in Progress Conference in Wellington. District 9940 was a sponsor (along with Stuff, Datacom, VUW and others). I came in touch with a new piece of phraseology. We used to have white collar workers, blue collar workers and grey collar workers, and even no collar workers.
Now we also have “new collar workers”. Holly Norton is the very epitome of the “new collar worker.” Already an active community volunteer for a number of causes, she left her safe job as a government policy analyst to work with other changemakers to develop a new app to enable people to collaborate more easily.
“I wanted to create the kind of world I wanted to live in,” she told the conference. Her story was typical of many others who said they wanted to use technology for social good.
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