“Yeah, apparently he writes this blog of his anonymously”, said one of my colleagues to another at the conference we were all attending.

I stopped in my tracks. I had gone to get a coffee after meeting a client, and was walking back to the group when I overheard the discussion.

“He puts some jokes in there, but it’s mostly lame stuff about work and that,” continued another.

I am shocked. It is not mostly lame stuff. It has been described as “hilarious” and “not bad” by some other bloggers, and “insightful social commentary” by me, on several occasions. They clearly do not know what they are talking about.

Then I realised that Dave was one of the group. I have written about Dave on a few occasions, and I could not care less if he is offended, except if he tells HR. I am not 100% positive, but I think there might a problem with calling your colleague a feckless idiot on the Internet.

“That Pseudonym, I don’t know where it came from, it doesn’t even make sense!”

Now they are just being picky. Anyone of them that has been in the Monday management meeting with me will know where it has come from. They are deliberately missing the point.

“I mean, calling yourself after a childrens toy?”

Hmmm. I do not know a lot about toys nowadays. Perhaps the top selling toy at the moment is a Mr Angry doll?

“I think he might have stopped writing it because no-one ever read it”

“Ha! It can not be me!” I thought to myself. I have literally tens of readers, which as everyone who has a Grade C or above at GCSE maths knows is more than no-one!

I approached them as I drank my coffee and they filled me in on a client of ours who started a blog about the industry we are in. I played dumb and asked them what a blog was. Honestly, it is these little things that make my life bearable.

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