Rumours

During times of organisational change and institutional vandalism, it is natural to feel some fear and uncertainty. As your caring managers, we want to reassure you that this is fine and normal, and in fact it’s how we want you to feel, as it makes you more biddable. But sometimes this anxiety can turn into harmful mistrust and even outright opposition, leading people to listen more to their academic colleagues than to official announcements and explanations, and we can’t be having that. Mythtakes is a new internal communications initiative at Ex-University intended to wave away suspicions that the institution is run by a cabal of callous but also incompetent lizard creatures dressed in human skin. Let us put your silly little minds at rest! Is it true that all emails are being monitored for keywords indicative of discontent and subversion, so even Heads of Department are insisting on making important communications through non-official apps? Honestly, Derek, do you really think that…