Bankers

Banks are shutting down cash machines and branches. They are trying to force you into using their digital payments and digital banking infrastructure. As Google wants everyone to access and navigate the broader internet via its privately controlled search portal, so financial institutions want everyone to access and navigate the broader economy through their systems. […]

What does your CV look like?

Snowflakes don’t want to write a CV anymore; they think their social media profiles should be enough for them to get a job. Unless we live in a soap opera, we don’t really go to the classified job listings in a local newspaper and circle the ones that look most interesting. Technology has changed the […]

How to negotiate

27 against one is not good odds. Theresa May is not a good negotiator, nor a good dancer, but I am starting to feel slightly sorry for her. She stubbornly refuses to give up on a job she is totally and obviously unsuited for. But, negotiating one against 27 is not an easy task, especially […]

Better Call Saul is a workplace drama

Do you watch Better Call Saul? It’s quite satisfying; to watch the current season (4), you log onto Netflix, click on ‘search’ and enter the letter ‘B’. The latest episode then appears. Anyway, some people are saying that this excellent programme is less about drugs and is, instead, more of workplace drama. Let’s have a […]

Plus ça change…

This article was first published in June 2017. Over a year later it appears just as contemporary. Whatever your views on Brexit, it is an inescapable fact that nothing has changed or moved on in the last 14 months. The British media is extremely inward-looking and although showing concern for the upcoming Brexit negotiations, pays […]

Dumb questions from dumb people

I’ve never been good at job interviews. I once went for a final interview at a publishers with the head of HR. When I entered the room, he was reading a newspaper as he asked me; “What really annoys you?”. It was impossible not to tell him; “Rudeness; someone reading a newspaper in a job […]

Smart offices

Not only do you need a pool table, free breakfast and Friday drinks for your pampered staff, now you need to use the latest technological developments to drag them into their Smart Office. Yes, we’ve got smart cards, smart phones and now some smart arses say everyone deserves a smart office. There is nothing wrong […]

You can run, but can’t hide

Britain’s worst bosses are about to be named and shamed. Since the Brexit vote, the government has taken its eye off pretty much everything else, but now has come up with a master plan to conduct a survey on the quality of jobs in the UK, by tracking how workers feel about their managers as […]

Standing on the shoulders of giants

Following the resignation of Martin Sorrell, Mark Read, has been named as WPP’s new chief executive. Read has worked for the advertising giant WPP since 2002, but he has big shoes to fill as he steps into the chief executive role. The advertising giant’s founder Sir Martin Sorrell transformed WPP over three decades from a […]

You’ve got email (wrong)

We are all guilty of crimes against email etiquette and, in a work situation, it is those that make you come across as passive aggressive that are best avoided. It is all too tempting to send emails to colleagues rather than speaking to them directly, but the problem with emails is that they can be […]