If I won the lottery…

07Mar10

A favourite Friday afternoon discussion at the office happens at around 2pm, after everybody has had lunch and the boss returns with our lottery syndicate numbers. Seven rows a week plus seven rows on the Euromillions if the motion is carried by a general consensus. The discussion is an orgy of greed, aspiration and gluttony. […]

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Every cloud

06Feb10

At work we have been enjoying what they call ‘down time’. Much like Supernanny’s naughty step, ‘down time’ is when IT take a look at the whole publishing system and what we complain about and screw up and then punish us by putting it offline to tamper with and ‘improve’. Yes, this is very dull. […]

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Tags: boredom, Business, down time, Dubai, fired, Journalism, meeting, office, sales, travel writing