X Files Return, Poem Dream Flight and Work Ethics

The week on the new greenYgrey blog started with the latest episode of our X Files parody, which is an epic three-voices poem travelling from the present into the past, and from a Ukraine lake to Polish North-Sea coast: X Files Parody Dream Flight.

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It was followed by news that X Files will return next January, a year after our fantasy ramble began, and twenty years after the last series: X Files Return.

The week ended with the latest Folding Mirror poem reflection to be serialised from 242 Mirror Poems and Reflections. It focused on work in the private and public sectors, and freedom of information: Poem Reflection.

Charity Clarity

The last thing I want to do is criticise charities, and I hope they continue to thrive doing great work.

However, critical thinking means everything is open to criticism, including charity.

Firstly, there are some smaller and newer charities that may be bogus.

Secondly, the biggest problem people have with established charities is the high-earners at the top, who have often previously been with big corporate companies. While the charities say they are worth their money, and bring in more than they earn, at what cost is this? Do they bring in more money because they bring in corporate tactics and philosophy, such as hard selling, targets and bonuses?

Tribalism and competition at work is often strong even amongst workers at the most corporate companies, where the employees probably wouldn’t have cared at all about their job’s targets before, so I guess workers at charities could be encouraged into being even more ruthless, as they can think that their work is ultimately doing good… but some of their patrons might fall by the wayside, like the 92-year-old who’d been trying to do the right thing all her life!

I don’t know the reality of life working in charity promotion/sales, or what the circumstances really are, but there does seem to have been more people complaining about charities since the high-earners with corporate experience were brought in.

Disclaimer: I haven’t researched this, and am just writing it from hearing about a few recent cases, and am generally happy with the charities I support, although I think I do receive too many requests for more money, and ways of giving it.

Please don’t let this put you off giving to charity, but I would recommend choosing well established ones.

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