Face time

The dreaded Friday work bombs

April 13, 2012 // 0 Comments

It’s almost 4pm on a Friday and miraculously I’ve managed to spend the entire day online shopping. With my smooth avoidance of work I feel like that last olive in the bowl that is next to impossible to pick with a toothpick… haha try and pick me with work if you can, but I’ll just say that I’m busy on X and Y’s work even though I [...]

What to do when you get asked to do a random research task…pretend to do it

February 20, 2012 // 0 Comments

So this morning my MD has asked me to look for [insert random, tiny, irrelevant research task which I know can’t be found because I’ve already looked, here], so I’m just waiting around, looking like I’m intently typing/searching so that I can email him back in 5 minutes to say that I couldn’t find anything. It never ceases to amaze me [...]

How to face time at work like a boss

December 21, 2011 // 0 Comments

I could not be border today (as in bored-er). I don’t understand why we need to sit here and surf the internet until what is considered a “normal” finish time. Apparently our employment contracts says that we must work all “reasonable hours” which no doubt was intended to mean that you must work from 8am to 6am the next day every day, [...]