The ranks of Aquent bloggers are set to expand. In addition to this blog and that of Aquent's LA office, our international arm is going to be launching a blog, if I'm not mistaken, and I've been working semi-feverishly on providing our local offices with some plug-and-play tools that should greatly facilitate blogging efforts at street-level. Aquent is going to be "joining the conversation" on a planetary scale, world, so step back!
To top it off, it appears now (finally?) that a right honorable member of Aquent's management team is standing on the verge of getting his blog on. I don't want to say too much about it just yet -- the proof of the blog is in the pudding, as we all know -- but I did want to use him as inspiration for today's post.
This presumptive blogger was working up some pre-launch content and he was looking at my blog for something to take issue with. He said, in effect, that he couldn't find anything he didn't agree with on this blog. I was crest-fallen.
I shouldn't have been surprised, I suppose. After all, blogging is a personal idiom, and this is a corporate blog. Persons become individuals by differentiating themselves from others; corporations become persons by subsuming the individuals they "incorporate."
Unless you disagree with something or someone, you can't separate yourself from the brute uniformity of Being. You become background noise and eventually fade into oblivion. On the other hand, if you differentiate yourself too much within the corporate context, you enter the brute uniformity of Unemployment.
DARN IT! I DON'T CARE!
I want this blog to be somebody. I want this blog to express itself. I want people, even those super-ordinated to me in Aquent's complex and Byzantine hierarchy, to hear me and disagree with me!
So, here goes: I think that everyone who works for us, including all internal staff and talent, as well as any consultants, contractors, or temps we engage, should have to legally change their last name to "Aquent," as a non-negotiable condition of employment.
Let's see you agree with that!
Image Courtesy of MShades.
"I disagree. I disagree STRONGLY!" - a guy at a seminar at Cornell a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away
Perhaps rather than the last name change, they should be required to post a comment a week to the talent blog, minimum. Come on, guys, express yourself. Don't just do something, stand there!