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Explaining ‘work’ at work
I was recently asked to change someone’s photo on a story because she’d had a nose job. Or, as the PR called it, “a procedure”. It got me thinking. How do you explain ...
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Stop stressing me out
Chatting with a highly stressed work colleague recently, she revealed she’d recently spent thousands on treating the symptoms of stress – from heart palpitations to problems with her ...
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Meet our newest entrepreneurs
One of the best things about my job is the opportunity it gives me to meet young, inspiring business people about to set the world on fire. So this week, I’m going to introduce you to two ...
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"Holidays are when the wheels fall off"
Well, school’s back and you can feel the relief in the air. I dead set have no idea how full-time working parents manage child minding in school holidays.If you do the maths, ...
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Is Gen X past it?
NAB chief Cameron Clyne’s recent resignation at the age of 46 made me stop and think. Here’s a man, a member of generation X – people born between the mid-1960s and the mid-1980s ...
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Why don’t we ask for help?
I was brought up to value independence above almost anything else. According to my family’s lore, standing on your own two feet is something all adults should be able to ...
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Pay up or I’ll sue
Few things make my blood boil as much as a client that does not pay its invoices. I was reminded of this the other day when a mate asked me for advice about how to get a client to pay her bill. ...
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How to attract great clients
I’ve had a couple of instances recently where I’ve bumped heads with clients due to mismatched expectations about how the relationship should progress. It reminded me of a piece of ...
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The death of grammar and punctuation?
We talk about words a lot in this area of the paper. We’ve written about mispronunciation, strange neologisms, pet peeves and more. In fact, few topics incite the readership more than an ...
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Why don’t women go grey?
I often hear people talk about wanting to work with those who have “a bit of grey hair” when they’re looking to deal with someone with experience.Problem is, mostly ...
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I don't do coffees
About half a dozen times a day I’m asked if I want to catch up for coffee, generally by someone who wants me to write about their business. Usually I’ve never met the person and nine ...
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Don’t cry out loud
To be honest, I often have little patience with people who end up in tears before me. I sometimes think it’s emotional manipulation, a way to get me to feel sorry for them.Yes, I ...
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Is goal setting a waste of time?
We’re told from a young age we need to set goals if we want to achieve anything, and for a long time I believed that. I had goals about what I wanted to do work-wise, I had goals about ...
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Please don’t sneeze on me
Everyone seems to have a cold or a flu at the moment so I guess I should not be so disgusted by what happened to me this morning. But as I am I thought I should ...
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Beat the office bitch
I don’t know why it is, but every office has someone, usually a woman but sometimes a man, who’s just plain nasty. It’s usually because he or she feels threatened and the only ...
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Can you change?
Someone close to me who I won’t out for risk of him losing his job chucked a sickie this week to go surfing. So proud. We all work too hard, put in heaps of unpaid overtime and generally ...
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Do men or women have bigger egos?
Chatting with my friend William recently, he told me a story of how he’d moved into his very own office at work. He was enjoying a nice little set-up: he could close the door if he wanted ...
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How to take a holiday
Earlier this year I was thwarted when I tried to go on holiday. All my mates were headed up the coast to my favourite surf spot for a four-day break. Utter bliss.But a couple of weeks out ...
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A tradie stole from me
I had a tradesperson steal something precious to me and my family a few weeks ago. I didn’t realise it had been stolen for a little while. There’s no way I can prove who did it, but I ...
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Never trust a (bad) PR
I am sick and tired of being dudded by public relations people. This morning I had an email from one of my contributors, after I had knocked back a story idea of his because we had just published ...
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