I can only assume your article “Are you having enough fun” (1 October, page 30) was meant to wind people up and was designed to prompt cries of outrage. If so, it worked

The article implied that those who answered mainly “ A” were the real fun-time people to have around. So, into this I read that people who made fun of their tenants and told tasteless jokes were good to be around; that it’s OK to show no remorse after wrecking the house-moving plans of a tenant (who may indeed have had to arrange child care and made two bus journeys to pick up keys, never mind that she was possibly facing a weekend at her old home all packed up with no utilities); that it’s OK to do Nazi impressions and to exclude colleagues from jokes, possibly making it difficult for them to challenge racist and sexist behaviour.

Are they the ones we all want to work with?

I don’t think so. I do consider it important to have fun in the workplace, but not at the expense of others.

This article was distasteful, was not “fun” and was frankly beneath what I would have expected from your magazine.

Please note, these are views expressed in a personal, not ODPM, capacity.

Dawn Eastmead, housing management divisional manager ODPM

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Housing Today