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Most of my friends have left university and are finding their feet in mind numbing 40 hour week desk jobs. However one thing really intrigues me is to what they do in this time. Sitting in front of a computer for hours on end can lead to recalcitranct behaviour and this is showcased in my excessively overloaded email account!. No i dont want to forward on your chain letter which will result in all my wishes coming true, Its not funny to hassle the hoff! (hes an icon of a generation y'know) I dont want to hear some witty quip about some all black and his drinking habits and no I definitly dont want to see anything relating to the untimely death of Steve Irwin! ITS TOO SOON!

This kind of office behaviour has actually been analysed by a sociological scholar called Du Gay. In his 1996 work 'Consuming Organisation' he talks about this thing called 'La Perruque'. Basically this is the workers own work however disguised as work for his employer. Now this seriously leads me to wonder how much time is wasted at work since the arrival of email. Say everyone checks their email six times a day for ten minutes, thats an hour of skyving off. The email check is the new smoko! And who makes these things? its probably some bored advertising/graohic design junior who in between checking his emails makes quirky powerpoint presentations of ten reasons women cant drive(cue crazy car positons) or sports greatest injuries caught on camera.

This kind of carry on isnt gonna stop anytime soon, but to be completly honest, when I'm out their doing the 9-5 their better be something remotely funny in my inbox or im gonna throw the fax machine.
c.

p.s: funniest email will win a mystery prize! cdow028@ec.auckland.ac.nz
yeh i know, im slightly hypocritical