An Aussie café employee was sacked for failing to use a happy face emoji in a text reply to her boss. The Fair Work Commission, rightly in this case, ruled that this was an unfair dismissal. I suspect that decision took about two seconds to make. Somewhere and somehow, a manager believed that an emoji …
I know what a CEO is supposed to do, and I understand the requirements for a COO, CFO, and a CIO, but I have finally realised that the role I was born to occupy, was as a CCO. According to the Washington Post, the Candy Funhouse Company of Canada is advertising for a Chief Candy …
Administrators are currently selling the assets of Melissa Caddick, who parted her family and friends with around A$23 million in a Ponzi scheme. Ms Caddick’s severed foot was found on a New South Wales beach three months after she mysteriously vanished from Sydney. I still find people who are convinced that she cut off her …
According to the magazine Paris Match, and various respected journalists, Putin’s bodyguards ‘collect his excrement on trips abroad and take it back to Russia with them.’ They are quite literally, carrying the can. At first, I wondered if they had taken the plea made to all tourists, leave only footprints behind, just a little too …
My youngest son is twenty-one and recently told me that, amongst his mates, there is a strong sense that they will never be able to retire. They believe that the age at which a pension can be collected, will keep moving out of their grasp. This will happen insidiously, while they pay taxes and keep …
One of my undergraduate tutors gave out a list called Winners and Losers, a page of career tips that he thought might improve our chances in life. Calling us winners or losers is an awful notion, but it was the eighties. We were watching Dynasty and Dallas. I lost that page a long time ago, …
Astronauts were once picked for their individualistic traits. They had to have supreme confidence and ‘unflinching bravado.’ They needed ‘ice in their veins’ according to the psychiatrists who once recruited them in the early days of the space race. In the December issue of The Economist, an article called Fighting Fit, described the challenges NASA …
In trying to find the origins of one ancestor, I have gone down many of the 4000 holes in Blackburn Lancashire looking for a boy called George. That’s the name of my research file, Boy George. One day my heart stopped, and I confess I had a tear in my eye. There was a girl …
There’s a lot of chatter about the post-Covid return to a ‘new normal’ office existence and exactly what is changing. Important questions are being raised, such as whether we are tired of wearing our old track pants and whether the pencil skirt will die. Some of us are concerned about whether our favorite curry stand …
Mike Nesmith died on December 12, 2021. A musical friend told me that this was National Sound Check Day. One Two, One Two. I’m sure he would have liked that. He was on stage only recently, doing a final show with Micky Dolenz after having a quadruple bypass. I first loved Mike Nesmith as the …