I really like my job.

I really hate though, this recently invented thing called compliance.

Sox compliance to be precise. Invented by 2 hilarious and crazy guys called Sarbanes and Sxley to ensure order in the world and never ever again a repeat of the enron/andersen fiasco. As a former employee of andersen and therefore someone who lost their job due to dodgy chino wearing tossers doing more fiddling than the LSO...you might think I'd welcome the 'controls' to stop it happening again.Wrong.

The fun thing about it, and the only thing I find remotely interesting is that if you get your sox wrong someone in long trousers in the company goes to jail. Oh yes. How cool is that.

The reality though, the mind numbing and dull reality of sox is that I seem to be spending alot of time with people who are waffling on about 'we have to be compliant to so here's a load of work cos we ain't doing it we're the ones who get the auditors pissed and hope for the best'

The most irritating thing of all though is this very common sentence from compliance junkies

'I don't care if it works/helps/changes anything or indeed prevents fraud - just make sure we tick the compliance box!!!'

Oddly enough, the compliance junkies are all chino wearing tossers - the same ones who in a former life shredded and embezzled their way through ooh about 50,000 people's careers and lives - and now they're in charge of making sure it never happens again.

Tossers.

My attempt at humour today when I breezily declared that there's no such thing as safe sox was greeted with dismay. So I'll keep saying it at every meeting.