Employment Stories

I like to be helpful. If I have a skill, I will offer it to help solve a problem at work. I thought that was what working for an organisation was all about. The bringing...

What's in a name? Well, first impressions are lasting impressions (as The Impressions' song goes). When our names are usually the first thing that strangers know about u...

People don't just disappear, do they? I don't mean a clothes-on-beach John Stonehouse sort of disappearance. Nor a dead-nanny-on-floor Lord Lucan type of crime. Those we...

I love history. I hated 'History'. My Empire-made History GCE text book chronicled world history from the era Neanderthal Man emerged from Milton Keynes up to Britain's...

It has always been difficult for me to understand how white South Africans who built successful careers under the country's apartheid regime can live with the guilt and...

He was dead. He was definitely dead, his face turned blue from the extreme cold. His body was lying face-up on the street, at the top of a staircase that led from the su...

"Did you enjoy your day off yesterday?" a member of my team asked me one morning. "Yesterday?" I enquired, slightly confused. "Yes," he con...

Those who know is a sotry inspirted by a person who doesn't take sh*wers or gets a j*b. The parents rebellion starts and all unemployed people who don't take sh*wers hav...

"How is it that jobs just seem to fall into the laps of posh people?" my daughter asked the other day. A rhetorical question? A truism? Both? Those of us who w...

I recognised the tune. Not only did I recognise it, I knew all the words and would have happily rapped along with it. But not here. Definitely not here during rush hour...

"There's a bomb!" someone shouted. "There's a bomb!" I had just collected 'NME' from the newsagent that reserved it for me each week and had been la...

"I am sorry, sir, but you are not allowed in the tea room," the head chai-wallah said to me politely but firmly. "It is OUR job to bring you cups of tea w...

I pull back the bedroom curtains and, from my window, see a huge elephant ambling along the promenade above the Mekong River. I know it must be 6:30 a.m. Every day at th...

When someone leaves their job, what are the chances that the 'best man' to replace them will be: the groom at whose wedding their predecessor was Best Man, AND * a con...

"It's just like the multinational pharmaceutical businesses deliberately designing toothpaste tubes so that you cannot squeeze out the last bit of toothpaste,"...

Do you believe in destiny? Not the Bardot-like Angels squadron leader Destiny who battled evil-ised Captain Black and the mysterious Mysterons. No, destiny as in fate. T...

It was a hostage situation. I was sat on a chair in a large, empty room. An angry man was pacing in circles around me, shouting questions: "What have you done?"...

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"I am a paediatric doctor," said the young woman cleaning the toilet bowl in the bathroom of my apartment. "I work at the hospital during the day but I ca...

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