I’m not supposed to say any of this, because it’ll seem like showing off. I assure you though that I’m not, because I don’t really think I have that much to show off about. This week on The Apprentice (yes I know), that annual celebration of braggadocio and bullshit over ability and achievement, one particular...
I write this missive, dear reader, whilst listening to the oldest and fiercest derby football fixture in the world – Celtic v Rangers. At the moment, halftime, the score is 1-0. It’s a home game for Celtic, and You’ll Never Walk Alone, the club’s anthem (pre-dating Liverpool) is being sung like a hymn by the...
So Nick Clegg, the Lib-Dem leader, and Deputy Prime Minister, is being given a hard time by the red-top press for his apparent hypocrisy in considering sending his Catholic kids to a Catholic school. “Where’s the hypocrisy in that?” I hear you ask. Well, Nick himself is an atheist. He doesn’t believe in any god,...
If you are connected to me on Facebook, you’ll already be aware of the details of my road accident last Friday, 24th September, whilst riding my scooter home from work. If so, there’s no need to read on, but several people have asked for information, so here goes. Also, if I don’t blog about this...
As a recruiter, and professional nosey-parker, I always loved finding out intimate details of individuals’ working lives, which they would never reveal to other people. One of those, of course, is the biggest taboo subject in the workplace –salary. A spokesman for the Government Equalities Office says: “From October 2010 the Equality Act will make...
Continuing with my theme of writing about inconsequential trivial drivel…. It’s surely only a matter of time before I get arrested for this. Contrary to the established traditions of bloggers, I have only one thing that so agitates me to the point of apoplexy. So much so, it has driven me to anti-social (and possibly...
I’m going to rewrite my blog from yesterday, as when I reread it, it was crap – badly written and too lengthy. It seems I’m not the only one, as very few people read it. Here’s the potted version. Ahem… Because I’m a recruiter by trade, I judge everyone I meet in a clinical fashion....
As a young-ish industry, subject to change at any time (as is the wont of many internet businesses) the online recruitment sector is subject to the threat of game changing moves, which can radically alter the premise upon which we mostly operate. Our industry is entirely predicated upon a set of assumptions, about how we...
Plagiarism amongst modern stand-up comedians is viewed within the industry as a mortal sin, or at the very least as outright theft. These artisans make their living quite literally by their wits, and jealously guard the form of words that they carefully craft into their act. Not only one-liner gags, but whole scenarios, comic story...
Is a spam letter to a stranger at my exact home address suspicious? This morning I received a piece of sales literature addressed to a mysterious Miss Nazmin Subhan at my home address. Sent via a DHL mailing service, it could, of course, be a clerical/ computer error, whereby her name has accidently been connected...
