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Entries Tagged as 'Work'
Another day, another website
March 4th, 2009 · Comments Off on Another day, another website · Politics, Work
Bonus culture
February 26th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Work
I found out this week that I am to become part of the bonus culture that is being so heavily criticised. Last year our company pay offer was split into two during negotiations with the union. As part of offering a lower percentage that we asked for, they added a proviso for a one-off payment […]
Tags: Money
Best job in the world
February 4th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Life, Work
At the risk of turning into the Horsham Today RSS feed by posting three snow-related things in a row, the end of the last post reminded me of something. It may well be an urban myth because it sounds too good to be true, but somebody at work told me about the best job in […]
Tags: Weather
Bullying and harrassment
February 3rd, 2009 · 4 Comments · Work
At the moment my union is involved in helping to draw up a number of documents for our company all related to ‘dignity at work’: policies and guidelines on bullying and harrassment feature heavily. One type of behaviour does not feature at all, and I am not sure whether it is actually bullying or harrassment […]
Tags: Trade Unions
Cello scrotum
January 28th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Life, Work
At work we have TV screens in the corridors outside the lifts. They display company news and information most of the time, and sometimes they show the BBC news. In the afternoon they also show traffic maps, but throughout all of this there is a ticker at the bottom with headlines from the BBC’s news […]
Tags: WTF
The longest day
January 5th, 2009 · Comments Off on The longest day · Work
Isn’t the first day back at work after Christmas horrible?  You reach that mid-morning point where you really need a coffee and then realise that for the last week you wouldn’t have even been up by that time. This year is even worse since we are all going back on a Monday and therefore have […]
Tags: Holidays
Time Stops
December 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Work
I know I have said it before, but something so true cannot be repeated too often… the Christmas holidays are brilliant. Even those of us who do not really enjoy the Christmas element can really go for the holiday part because it is the best holiday of the year. Every other time you take time […]
Tags: Bah Humbug!
I’m Stranded
December 13th, 2008 · Comments Off on I’m Stranded · Work
Expect my fitness levels to increase significantly from now on because I am going to be using the stairs a lot more at work. In fact I will probably use them all the time after today’s little episode when I got stuck between the 2ns and 3rd floors for more than an hour.
Tags: Exercise
Party in Session
December 10th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Life, Work
We are well into the Christmas party season now. Last week Jayne was out at various functions for four nights in a row. One was my company’s annual do.  Being the sort of miserable bastard who doesn’t really like Christmas much I normally avoid company parties, but after hearing tales of how lavish they are […]
Tags: Bah Humbug!·WTF
Questions And Answers
November 18th, 2008 · Comments Off on Questions And Answers · Life, Work
There is a saying in politics that goes along the lines of ‘don’t ask a question unless you are sure of what the answer is’. Today I discovered the hard way that it applies in other areas too.
