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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been called cynical. Cynical, negative and pessimistic. For a time, I was called it so often that I almo...

As the great email clear-up continues, I find myself in 2011 and with the first draft of a blog post. Just reading through it is a reminder ...

I was made redundant a little over a year ago.  Even with all the various ins-and-outs of my career, outsourcing, insourcing and all the ...

As I received another job rejection without interview, it's just dawned on me that my CV seems to mean that I get rejected out of hand f...

It's now been 7 months since I stopped working. Technically, as they paid my notice, I suppose I've only actually been out of work f...

Perhaps it's the weather. Perhaps it's because I've finally started to read the bleak, dystopian vision presented in  "The...

" Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing. " (Albert Einstein) I've been experiencing ...

I don’t believe that I am an exceptional person. Like anybody else, I have my strengths and weaknesses, but I’m not really convinced that I...

It's been a very strange week. After nearly 22 years, I was made redundant last week.  I first knew that I was under threat at the end...

I was away for a couple of days last week on a team building thing. TEAM BUILDING.  Now, there are two words to strike fear into the he...

I was very excited to hear the news that The Muppet Christmas Carol would be receiving a cinematic re-release this December .  Whilst I c...

You know you've arrived at work when you're the guy that your boss's boss entrusts with a call at a quarter to six in the evenin...

7/10, earlier Is it strange that I sometimes just take against a piece of fruit? I bring them into work with me on a Monday morning and...

Although nominally signed off sick until this coming Wednesday, as I've already mentioned , I’ve actually been back at work since last w...

Today, two weeks after my operation, I returned to work. When I initially spoke to the surgeon about the procedure, he suggested I'd n...

I was running intervals this evening, so throughout my day at work, I kept meaning to go and buy a bottle of water to take with me... but I ...

We had a royal visit at work today.  For those of us trying to get some work done, it was a massive pain in the arse, to be honest.  There w...

When I first started work, I thought that I was going to be managing director; I thought that it was only a matter of time... ten years at t...

It's eighteen years to the day since I started work at my current place of employment. Some of my friends find that inconceivable, but...

I’ve been accused of many things in my time, but tact has rarely been one of them. Not very many people at work think of me as political ei...