Every week we have a new set of posters. Mainly in the lifts. And lift lobbies. All connected to the Senior Senior Senior Management's/Ministers' vision of Working in 3D (Delivery, Delivery Delivery. Yes, really...)
It's always fascinating to find out what it's going to be in any week - the infamous dEmail campaign, which encouraged us to email ideas on how to cut down on email. Exhortations to participate in the Out-of-Office Experience. Posters on how we are taking great initiatives to deliver Departmental Aims.
And every week you can guarantee that the posters will be defaced. To be honest, I think much of the defacing is childish, and potentially embarrassing, especially in the lifts that are used by visitors, as well as staff. Moustaches or false glasses drawn onto photographs of colleagues. One of the dEmail posters (which were all cheesy 50s-stylee adverts) featured a group of men wearing Y-fronts (don't ask...!). Personally, I found it slightly embarrassing to be stood in a lift, with random male colleagues, next to a picture of men in Y-fronts (they weren't exactly Homer and Bart). Someone had written 'Knob' in an appropriate place.
There has been some hang-wringing in the soap box about the defacing.
This week's poster is Delivery-focused, praising a eminently worthy scheme we are funding. In the lift I took to go home yesterday, someone had attached a sheet of paper which said "Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to dictatorship".
That is the way to deface a poster!
