Boris Johnson's special adviser Dominic Cummings has urged “weirdos and misfits” to apply for jobs in Downing Street ahead of a planned shake-up of the civil service. I think I may qualify; here's my...
As a manager, I've had to do my fair share of performance appraisals, which (as I'm sure the employees also found) was a pretty tedious and meaningless experience. Fortunately I...
Apparently there is a world-wide epidemic of 'Zombie Smartphone Users', which I can quite believe based on my infrequent sojourns into London. A smartphone zombie is a pedestrian who walks...
With apologies to the original author, but I don't know the provenance of this piece. All I know is that it conforms to my understanding (and experience) of how the...
Stuck for what to write on your employee's personal appraisal form? Short of ideas on what to write on that reference you were asked for? Here's a few ideas (with...
I guess we've all seen them - notices that have used some form of strangled English to convey their message. Some funny, some weird, and some that defy logic. Here's...
This is true story! A class of primary children started a class project to make a plant pot to take home. The teacher wanted to have a plant in it...
I received the following via one of those viral/chain emails, that encourage you to forward to several people at the risk of having the Wrath of Kane (or some other...
We live in an increasingly complex world, where our every thought and decision is in some way bounded by protocols, policies, rules and regulations. After all, these have been developed...
Now and again I come across something so "off the wall" and esoteric that I'm never quite sure what to do with it. As a life-long fan of Monty Python,...
