Danny the Guru Cat

In which we discuss Shugyo and medals

He didn't arrive home from last night's work this morning - he burst in the door and threw his work mobile phone across the front room, slung his bag in to the corner. I got off of the most comfortable window sill ever, decided to say hello and jumped up on the worktop to say wassup?  "Do me a favour and don't hassle me now Dan, I really ain't in the mood for it!" And then he went off on one. Winnie nearly broke the catflap on the way out just from looking at his face. Storming up and down he was, using them words that people don't use in polite company - or not that loudly anyway. Banging cupboard doors, then ran upstairs to get changed and started spanking the punchbag so hard and swearing the neighbours must have thought he was being mugged. He came back down to the kitchen where I was reading the paper he'd slung on the top by the kettle. I looked up. "What you looking at!? I've had a bad night alright!!?" With all the love and concern I could muster I said.... I s'pose some CHOW is out of the question Stroppyboy?....

In which we discuss managers

He was talking about managers the other day. He was saying how there is a culture where he works of shouting down the line rather than listening. He won't play the game he said. He could, I've heard him yell. He said that as things are getting tight, and the top management is being moved around, a lot of the people that were in one political downline are now finding themselves exposed, and having to adopt the behaviours of those above them to survive. I told him that's normal. It ain't right and it ain't effective, but it's normal.

He said he wasn't going to get into that kind of culture as it was counter productive. I told him that's because I've trained him to be a Cat manager - but as cat executive, I still get the comfy chair. They're Dog and Sheep managers I said. He went blank like I was trying to explain Fermat's Last Theorem, or E=MC2. He does that a lot. Sometimes i think he's not all there....