Mark Read
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theworkfluss.bsky.social
Mark Read
@theworkfluss.bsky.social
Writer on how work and religion equate both in practice and effects. Also using musical metaphors to explain our organisational lives.
Don't be giving 'em ideas!

https://socrel.medium.com/religion-and-the-world-of-work-the-organisational-quest-for-coher
Chelsea, one of Europe's biggest clubs.
CFC fans: 'Champions of Europe, you'll never sing that.'
Luton Town, fell on hard times for thirty years, relegated to the fifth tier, now back in the Premier League.
LT fans, in reply: 'National League champions, you'll sing that.'
Perfect.
February 24, 2024 at 3:53 AM
I'm at the stage of my life where I can't remember the title of either of my publications...🤔😁
January 3, 2024 at 3:53 PM
Christianity's relationship to everyday organising.
A necessity? Or a contradiction?
December 31, 2023 at 8:04 PM
So what replaces religion as moral guide in contemporary society?
Step forward the work organisation with its contingent values.
The damnation of this-world worklessness and poverty rather than otherworldly hell.
December 31, 2023 at 9:15 AM
Is there such a thing as British absurdism? 😁
December 18, 2023 at 2:35 AM
I used to get the class to mime a whole orchestra. The things you can do with mime. 😁
December 15, 2023 at 4:01 PM
I work regularly with police in Blackpool. They tell me they don't have a drugs gang problem. Demand for illegal drugs is so high, gangs don't have to compete for custom. The town is bottom of nearly every deprivation league table. Then, along comes their MP...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
‘I’m dying, I need help’: Inside the battle to turn around England’s drugs death capital
Blackpool has topped the country’s drug fatality rates for more than a decade. Now a dozen recovering addicts are part of a pilot programme to tackle a crisis that’s out of control, writes Colin D...
www.independent.co.uk
December 15, 2023 at 9:38 AM
In my first school job, I used Shiny Happy People as backing track to Follow My Leader warm ups. Kids absolutely loved it. I can't hear that track neutrally now. Happy days indeed. 😊
December 15, 2023 at 9:29 AM