Curmudgeon's Wastebasket

“It’s a new year, Jaded Julie, and change is in the air.”

“I thought it was just a breeze blowing in from a farm outside of town. So what’s the change, Curmudge?”

“Do you recall our holiday greeting last month? To say the least, it was not all sweetness and light. I was concerned that we might offend someone by referring to Orwell’s book, 1984. There are over 4,000 employees at Affinity, and we dare not offend any of them in a corporate blog like Kaizen Curmudgeon.”

“It sounds as if you are saying that the content of Kaizen Curmudgeon must be plain vanilla, pristine pure, and squeaky clean. But a totally noncontroversial curmudgeon is an oxymoron. I suppose you’ll change your name to Santa Claus and mine to Snow White.”

“No way, Julie. Kaizen Curmudgeon will be unchanged. We’re going to start a personal blog to be a companion to the Kaizen Curmudgeon corporate blog. Let’s call the new blog Curmudgeon’s Wastebasket.”

“Might as well. That’s where the Kaizen Curmudgeon rejects go when we deep-six them, especially if they contain something controversial.”

“What is controversial, Julie, depends on the reader’s outlook. Nevertheless, our intent for Curmudgeon’s Wastebasket is just like that for Kaizen Curmudgeon—to share information with readers that they might not otherwise encounter. Our focus will continue to be Lean, health care, and leadership, but we’ll leave room for other topics—stuff that is so compelling that it demands to be shared.”

“I’m concerned, Curmudge. How will readers know about Curmudgeon’s Wastebasket? Should we publicize it by shouting from the top of the parking ramp? Maybe we could establish a ‘Code Curmudgeon’ to be announced whenever there is a new posting.”

“It shouldn’t be hard. We’ll just put a link in Kaizen Curmudgeon to direct readers to each new posting in Curmudgeon’s Wastebasket.”

“With all of these changes, I hope you are not forgetting about Lean.”

“This is Lean, Julie. We are respecting our readers’ sensitivities and continuously improving our blogging.”

“I’m with you, Curmudge. See you in Curmudgeon’s Wastebasket.”

Affinity’s Kaizen Curmudgeon