It’s coming to the end of the holiday year at work and so, as usual toward the end of March, I have found myself trying to shoe-horn in the odd day off to avoid losing them completely. Here are a few things I have noticed from being at home during the day, things I...
A while back, May 2014 to be exact, I wrote a blog bemoaning the use of nauseating phrases in the workplace, particularly in meetings. Taking people on a journey down their happy path, warming them up and informing parts of projects are all phrases that, normally...
It’s always been a bit of a dilemma having work colleagues and associates as Facebook friends, for me. At best it’s style-cramping, at worst, career-threatening. I’ve managed to avoid it thus far, only starting to stalk/bore the life out of colleagues once I have...
I’m quite a busy lad these days, as you may have surmised\been relieved by my recent lack of 54Fridays and general blogging. Well, what can I say, I really like my job and it keeps me gainfully occupied for the vast majority of the time. However, this week, a number...
My wife rarely travels abroad, yet she still suffers from jet lag twice a year. She doesn’t really get jet lag, of course, she just gets very confused when the clocks go back in October and again when they go forward in March. It’s worse in March than it is in...
