According to national statistics the first Monday in February is the day when people are most likely to pull a sickie. One of the factors attributed to this is the first payday since Christmas, meaning people have been out celebrating all weekend with a particularly heavy one. Another theory is that people have a tendency… Continue reading National Sickie Day – Good and stupid reasons to take a day off work.
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50 Top Grumbles From Working In An Office.
I don’t know about you but I used to hate working in an office. There is a big piece of me that thinks that the modern day existence offered by working in an office job isn’t really much if any better than in the 19th century when we were virtual slaves to tyrannical mill owners.… Continue reading 50 Top Grumbles From Working In An Office.
Top 10 requirements of a happy office versus working from home!
Apparently many offices in Britain are not as nice a working environment as they could be and a survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors reveals the top 10 desirable traits a workplace should have, according to UK workers. I thought it would be fun to compare my experiences of working from home as… Continue reading Top 10 requirements of a happy office versus working from home!
Bad bosses, Bullies, Dilbert and the Peter Principle
I don’t know about you but during my 20 years working in a variety of office based environments, the one thing that struck me almost since the first day was that by and large, the majority of managers are to a certain extent unsuitable. In my time so far I have had 11 managers and… Continue reading Bad bosses, Bullies, Dilbert and the Peter Principle
Speaking up for Introverts!
The world is split into two types of people, me and everyone else. More helpful than that, it is divided between Introverts and Extroverts. The world is ruled and dominated by extroverts, perhaps because introverts don’t want to speak up. Introverts make up roughly a third of the general population but are often overlooked or… Continue reading Speaking up for Introverts!
Stephen Liddell 