University bullshit and working out when to shut up

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Inger and Jason have both been dealing with challenges.

For Inger it's finding time to work on her romance novels when
doing a 37.5 hour week entirely on Zoom. She did, however, manage
to get on Etsy and buy angry uterus stickers for her bullet
journal.

Jason is in Covid lockdown - again! But at least he got to take
the tinny (that's a small, metal boat for non-Australian
listeners) out with Shainal. The maiden voyage taught Shainal Jnr
the importance of going to the bathroom before heading out in
Port Phillip bay shipping lanes in 20 knot winds... Jason also
answers the question: 'Can you get pulled over by the authorities
when you are in a boat?' As it turns out, yes. Twice.

Inger does a deep dive on University Bullshit, thanks to a great
paper by Ian McCarthy, David Hannaha, Leyland Pitt and Jane M.
McCarthy called "Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing
with workplace bullshit”. The paper is a brilliant explanation of
bullshit and offers a framework to recognise and offers the
'CRAP' framework for dealing with it. The duo agree that managing
to do a serious academic paper with the words 'crap' and
'bullshit' in it is a next level academic practice. Jason then
follows up with a paper on whether or not speaking a lot in
meetings is a good idea.

In our 2 minute tip section, Jason shares a top tip for using
your bullet journal to give you a more realistic sense of your
accomplishments and Inger gloats (just a little bit) about how
many bookshelves there are in her new office.

We went long on this one and, honestly, Inger enjoyed it so much
she did barely any snippety-doo-dah. Cue this one up for a long
drive, a big gardening clean up session or epic list of house
hold chores!

Links to stuff we mentioned in this episode:
The Bullet Journal website

Paper: "Confronting indifference toward truth: Dealing with
workplace bullshit” (paywalled)

Ian McCarty Jnr's video e


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