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Exam Questions (these are real answers!)

Stephen DaleJune 18, 2025
Who'd be a teacher eh? But bless the little darlings for their ingenuity and innocence (?)
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Stop the world, I want to get off!
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Stop the world, I want to get off!

Stephen DaleApril 27, 2025
I’m increasingly convinced that the inmates are running this asylum that I find myself in. Politicians (well, one, take a bow Sir Kier Starmer) couldn’t explain until recently what a...
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Where anyone can get a job?

Stephen DaleFebruary 3, 2025
We were all horrified as news came in about the air collision between a Blackhawk helicopter and a passenger plane at Washington DC Airport, which took the lives of all...
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Job Application in response to dominic cummings
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Job Application in response to dominic cummings

Stephen DaleJanuary 5, 2020October 11, 2020
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...
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Actual quotes taken from employee performance appraisals
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Actual quotes taken from employee performance appraisals

Stephen DaleAugust 7, 2017October 11, 2020
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...
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The Rise of Zombie Smartphone Users
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The Rise of Zombie Smartphone Users

Stephen DaleJune 12, 2017October 11, 2020
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...
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How the EU Works
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How the EU Works

Stephen DaleJune 10, 2016October 11, 2020
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...
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Performance Appraisals and References – some ideas on what to write
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Performance Appraisals and References – some ideas on what to write

Stephen DaleMay 1, 2015October 11, 2020
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...
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Misleading Notices
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Misleading Notices

Stephen DaleFebruary 5, 2015October 11, 2020
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...
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A Teacher’s Nightmare
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A Teacher’s Nightmare

Stephen DaleJanuary 29, 2015October 11, 2020
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...
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