The Edcawber Principle

beanielou

I love real hankies and some lovely (to me) ones with teddies.
I use them mainly to clean my glasses. ��

edinburgher

Urgh - it's Tuesday!

Bad dreams and chills last night, really must get that letterbox replaced

£0.22 paid off a CC, I am reading (and very much enjoying) Hag-Seed by Margaret Atwood :coffee:

Karmacat

Oh my .... not a title I was familiar with ... so much reading to do!

edinburgher

It's rather fab. I have long suspected you are the English Margaret Atwood

Karmacat

edinburgher wrote: »

It's rather fab. I have long suspected you are the English Margaret Atwood

**gulps** Ooh I say! Notice how English I went just then? That definitely encourages me to go for it, Ed, thank you.

AlexLK

Thanks for giving me some inspiration for a February goal. Need to get reading again, so 3 books in February seems like a good target.

Suffolk_lass

edinburgher wrote: »

And don't get me started on 'branded' tissues. Like branded medicine, they're a !!!!!! attempt by advertisers to cash in on the fact that we feel vulnerable when we're ill and that only their magical snot collection product will deliver the level of care that you want, nay deserve!

Don't wrap it up in cotton wool (or tissues) ed; say what you really mean! :rotfl:;)

edinburgher

Urgh. Toxic work colleague is on a rampage again, having to stand my ground a lot to prevent them taking over every aspect of our team's efforts. I dislike this I'd think it was me, but they were basically hounded from their last job for being a workzilla...

badmemory

Frankly I worry about the increasing role of HR in who is actually employed. They seem to employ people who tick the correct boxes but totally ignore their personallities & don't seem to have any sense of "them leaving their last job was odd perhaps we should ask their previous employer a specific question".

This can land up with bullies being put in yet another position to bully after having left a job due to that bullying. Such as an employee bragging that he left his last job because he had held a subordinate up by the throat against some warehouse racking.

The more senior bullying becomes the more mental rather than physical it becomes but it will always be buulying.

The more a company relies on tick boxes rather than their guts the worse this is going to get.

edinburgher

I agree completely badmemory - it's worse in that my boss is completely aware that colleague has a toxic reputation and seemed to think they'd be able to handle them better. It's fine when you don't need to share an office with them! :mad: