The Flogging Bureau

Among RantWoman's many less than lucrative activities is her flogging Bureau. RantWoman at this moment is wondering how it is that she has not already posted about her multilingual flogging bureau. RantWoman in fact has a sneaking suspicion that she has previously posted and perhaps run afoul of some kind of content objections. if so, RantWoman would quite genuinely appreciate feedback obviously generated directly by a human of the "Do you consider this appropriate?" form.

RantWoman's flogging bureau began life as offhand grumbles among several people on one of the email discussion lists RantWoman enthusiastically participates in. People on the list were having a bad day and reporting hassles from the work world and in their personal lives with regard to a number of different bureaucracies. RantWoman just blurted out that perhaps what is needed is a flogging bureau. RantWoman did not opine of her fear that such a place would quickly be overwhelmed by the number of people who fully qualified to be flogged.

RantWoman immediately discovered another problem: she was flooded with potential applicants wanting to submit resumes. RantWoman did a short back of the eyelids legal consult and realized that she might have, um, certain legal problems about revenue and therefore also certain problems issuing paychecks. The numbers of those qualified for floggings continued to grow.

RantWoman reported this sense of trepidation to her listmates and then had a whole new set of problems: a large percentage of those wanting to submit resumes were also perfectly happy to volunteer. The most forward of them wanted to know if they could count their floggings at the usual and customary rates for their business as tax-deductible contributions to some charity. The numbers of those qualified for floggings also continued to grow.

At this point, RantWoman has been unable to conduct any kind of engineering tests to determine the average capacity and maximum throughput of her flogging crew. RantWoman has this sense of an evergrowing line of people whom someone deems worthy of flogging, non-consensual flogging. RantWoman is starting to get a little worried about weird behavior in the flogging line; RantWoman now apologizes but she must, must leave the flogging line in suspense and return to her usually scheduled work.