You think working with Gordon Brown is bad…
…I wouldn’t want to work with Jack Bauer. With Gordon Brown allegedly being a workplace bully, I stopped to think – are there other people I wouldn’t want to work with? What makes a work place bully? Is it their passion not being contained? Is it their enthusiasm knowing no boundaries? Is it the unrelenting [...]
The winter Olympics – from our Bird at the Games #Van2010
Yesterday for you, but today (still) for me, I saw the women’s 3000m speed skating. Now I wouldn’t say I dislike sport, but I have very little interest in it. I can ski and I can skate (roller and ice, am significantly better at rollerblading over ice skating) and I used to be reasonable at [...]
The Un-Manager
In a phone call the other day I was called an un-manager and I was rather pleased, as one thing I am not is the sort of fire breathing dragon that breathes fear into her employees by merely by being in the same room. So what is an Un Manager? I had no idea, so [...]
I heart my Flip
I have never been very good at telling anyone other than my kids how much I love them. So the fact that I love my Flip and I am making a public declaration is a big thing! Image by Getty Images via Daylife Camera’s have never been my ‘thing’ as I have said before I [...]
Musings on fuels and greener, hybrid vehicles
Working in transport often brings humour and laughter to the day, but every now and then a serious discussion crops up. Usually about fuel and fuel saving. I know more about fuel saving that I could possibly want too, I seem to absorb the information that is bandied about the office, do my own research [...]
