Sideswipe: July 10: Something wrong with my lions

There's something wrong with this, I can feel it in my lions.

A geeky dilemma

A tech worker has figured out how to get paid a full-time salary for 1-2 hours work each week and is wrestling with the ethics of the situation.

An anonymous poster on The Workplace Forum said they'd created a bot that did their job for them. It involves putting information into a spreadsheet and he says he is able to work remotely.

"So what used to take the last guy like a month, now takes maybe 10 minutes to clean the spreadsheet and run it through the program ...

If I tell them, they will probably just take the program and get rid of me. This isn't like a company with tonnes of IT work - they have a legacy system where they keep all their customer data since forever, and they just need someone to maintain it."

A groovy cactus doing the dab.

Missing you already ...

The death notice for Cornelia June Rogers Miller in a Murphy, North Carolina newspaper wasn't a flattering depiction of the great-grandmother, who "died alone after a long battle with drug addiction and depression".

"Drugs were a major love in her life as June had no hobbies, made no contribution to society, and rarely shared a kind word or deed in her life," the obituary says. "We speak for the majority of her family when we say her presence will not be missed by many, very few tears will be shed, and there will be no lamenting over her passing."

Son Robert Miller is fuming over the scathing death notice and thinks one of his estranged sisters is responsible.

Religious belief a blessing

A reader writes: "My best friend Alyson and I were born and raised in Timaru during the 1950s. Our families attended the local Presbyterian Church. Alyson confessed to me recently she was secretly very relieved we were Presbyterians because only 'our sort' of churchgoers could use the Presbyterian Crossings."

BREAKING NEWS: Exciting developments on the kitchen roll front, from our correspondent in Tunbridge Wells. (Via Pointless Letters)