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The end of my doctorate!
I’ve added a review of my Doctoral viva. Follow the Review links or go straight to Viva (voce not Las Vegas). It was horrible – trust me, I’m a Doctor
What is an employee worth?
When people stayed with companies for all their working lives they would get the “gold carriage clock” when they retired. Even more recently when staying at a company for more than a few years has become unusual, when an employee leaves, one expects a small gift. So after leaving the company where I’d worked for [...]
Maybe a bit late to point this out but…
Admittedly, those guys on strike do have a point – they should get far more money than they earn currently but couldn’t they have checked their signs before printing them? All the news stories managed to include the apostrophe in "Writers’ Guild of America", so it makes me wonder why the professional writers managed to [...]
Doing two people’s work and a broken car
The past few weeks at work have been particularly hard. A few of my team have moved onwards and upwards to different companies and while I can’t begrudge them their careers, it’s been a real pain for me to meet the end of year deadlines. Last week was a particularly big deadline as we had [...]
Insomnia
I’ve never been able to manage well on less than 8 hours sleep. Less than 4 (without any interruptions) and I’m unable to function – I can’t drive and am uncharactistically tetchy. Now normally, I could sleep through a nuclear blast: I can usually nod off regardless of noise, light and even comfort. Even when [...]