Let’s face it, noone likes being the newbie at work. You know the second you walk in the door you’re being judged by every single person’s beady little eyes. Small talk about the weather at the coffee maker only gets you so far as you fast realise you need to step up your conversation game.Continue reading “The Newbie In The Workplace”
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Best and Worst Christmas Decorated Offices
What’s going on here? Bunch of Scrooges. Cute. Which way is up? Christmas or taxidermy? OK. Yaaassss, picture + frame combo. I’m not going in. You can’t make me. Someone has too much time on their hands, obviously. Perfect. Haha love this. Does your workplace match any of these above?
Poem: A Job Is A Job
Knees buckled beneath me. Feet gnarled, toes curled. The whole world’s up against me. Yet still I spin, I twirl. Counting pennies until it defeats me. I’m sedated by my lost dreams. It seems the past always repeats me, A path of unraveling seams. Whispered regrets always greet me. My childhood career wasContinue reading “Poem: A Job Is A Job”
Bullying In The Workplace
Being bullied is never an easy thing to deal with, and compounding the matter is dealing with bullying from someone at your place of employment. In this situation you really are stuck between a rock and a hard place, for alot of us, we can’t just get up and move jobs or tell the bullyContinue reading “Bullying In The Workplace”
The Erratic Emotional Stages Of The Jobhunt
Whether you lost your job for screaming at your manager who took the risk and asked you to staple the meeting pack together on one of your ‘fragile’ days, or, you quite simply swanned out the door without slamming it (as I would’ve done). The matter of the fact is, finding that next job canContinue reading “The Erratic Emotional Stages Of The Jobhunt”
Career Change?: 7 Books You Need To Read
The 7 best books to inspire and guide you through career change Making the decision to change career paths is no walk in the park. I myself have found structure and strategy in making career decisions through a range of literary sources. Below are 7 books I would best recommend to anyone who, like myselfContinue reading “Career Change?: 7 Books You Need To Read”
Pig Out
My stomach rumbles with a 10 on the Richter scale, and that’s after I’ve eaten breakfast. So can you imagine my woes when the clock is fast approaching that heaven sent 1pm mark on the office clock? Feasting time is well and truly upon us, but wait, what to have I hear you ask? ShallContinue reading “Pig Out”
4 Reasons Why You Secretly Hate Your Job
The Commute – morning breath is a thing, and I’m going to say it, evening breath is definitely a thing too! Not saying I’m immune either but carry a goddamn mint! On that note, you’d be lucky to find enough air to breathe on the sweaty trains, trams and buses that we all findContinue reading “4 Reasons Why You Secretly Hate Your Job”
No Good, Bad And Ugly Work Habits
As creatures of habit we therefore succumb to many repetitive behaviours we wish we hadn’t! As I wallow in this thought and share them in writing by teaming up with Go Think Big, I suddenly remember, my annoying colleague wants another tea, no sugar. So whilst I brew the perfect cuppa, why don’t you haveContinue reading “No Good, Bad And Ugly Work Habits”
The Neon Squid 