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Leadership Lottery!
During a team night out, a group of disgruntled employees decided to exact revenge on their nasty boss. Whilst eating a meal in a restaurant, the said boss went to the bathroom. When he was away from the table, his employees searched through his wallet and found his Lottery ticket; they quickly wrote down his selected numbers.
Not Just the Score …
Most appraisals are ineffective and today the move is away from an over emphasis on the annual appraisal to more regular feedback and job chats. Feedback really matters to performance so it’s important to get it right.
“It’s WiFi Poisoning …”
For a blogger focusing on topics around work and life ,the hardest thing about lockdowns and social distancing is where to find inspiration for articles. There are very few people out and about, and even when there are some around, you can’t get close enough to eavesdrop on conversations! Okay, I jest about eavesdropping and generally I’m a mind my own business kinda guy, but still inspiration has to come from somewhere.
Thankfully, COVID-19 hasn’t stopped certain individuals from shouting into their mobile phones when out in public. On the bus home from work yesterday there were two people siting downstairs: myself, and a lady about four rows up. She was talking so loudly to the person at the other end of the line that passengers on the bus behind could have heard her, never mind me. So, listening in wasn’t so much a decision taken as an action forced upon me. Having said that, if you heard someone say “It’s WiFi poisoning,” you’d definitely listen in too, right? That’s exactly what I did and here’s what I overheard.
“It’s WiFi poisoning … COVID-19 doesn’t really exist. That’s just what the government is telling us … they don’t want us to know the truth…”
