Actual quotes taken from employee performance appraisals
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...
How the EU Works
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...
Misleading Notices
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...
A Teacher’s Nightmare
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...
Later In Life
The following truisms arose from some of those who are perhaps not in the first flush of youth (I qualify!): I started out with nothing, and still have most of...