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I shaved my head again today. I shave it every couple of months to disguise the fact that I’m going bald.
An awful, awful, awful place
Posted on Sun, 27 Aug 2023
An awful, awful, awful place to work, from what you've told me. I wouldn't blame anyone for leaving.
I thought of your and Alfred today. A builder who has been doing some work for us was telling me about all the different circumstances in...
Read full commentPosted in Tuesday Morning (How To Leave Your Job!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 2
What an awful world this is
Posted on Sun, 27 Aug 2023
What an awful world this is where where understanding and compassion are looked upon as an inadequacy. Alfred's decision to get out of that place was a good one.
I've always questioned the term 'customer service' as it often isn't.
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Read full commentPosted in Tuesday Morning (How To Leave Your Job!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 2
The whole world is being
Posted on Sun, 27 Aug 2023
The whole world is being taken over by robots. It's depressing. However there is a tiny trace of an advantage to the self check-out thing in that you don't get the people in the queue behind you hurrying you to get your bag packed and your money...
Read full commentPosted in Hot Cross Bun Blues
Memories can be as precious
Posted on Sat, 26 Aug 2023
Memories can be as precious as the present. Sometimes even more so.
We should create more of them every day because sadly some of them fade... like a flag in the wind.
Read full commentPosted in Life's Style
We need to be careful what we
Posted on Fri, 25 Aug 2023
We need to be careful what we say. We can all be victims. That sticks and stones saying just isn't true.
Read full commentPosted in I was only joking!
If my grasp of mathematics is
Posted on Thu, 24 Aug 2023
If my grasp of mathematics is correct, Nellie used her clever talk and her smiling eyes to procure sixteen pots of tea and eight scones every day throughout her seventies and eighties. With the money she saved she bought whiskey.
I knew...
Read full commentPosted in Nellie the Devilment
A clever title Rhiannon.
Posted on Thu, 24 Aug 2023
A clever title Rhiannon.
I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad thing but the worst of these leaders do not pass from our memories.
Read full commentPosted in Mis(-chosen)chief
If you have forty-two
Posted on Wed, 23 Aug 2023
If you have forty-two wristwatches from Ratners Jewellers you will have the right time eighty-four times a day.
One day I will write about the events surrounding the leaving of some of my former workplaces. Sainsbury's was the best story...
Read full commentPosted in Tuesday Morning (How To Leave Your Job!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 1
I got my A Level results on
Posted on Tue, 22 Aug 2023
I got my A Level results on Friday 13th August 1976. They weren't brilliant grades but they were what I needed for university, though within six months I realised that I didn't need university.
I also went to the pub with three mates. We...
Read full commentPosted in Steve Mason and the Last Day of School (Part Two of Two)
It's a great feeling leaving
Posted on Wed, 23 Aug 2023
It's a great feeling leaving a job.
I was thinking of re-writing Paul Simon's song 'Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover' to fit in with all the jobs I've left but when I counted them up I discovered there'd only been forty-two which would have...
Read full commentPosted in Tuesday Morning (How To Leave Your Job!) by Alfred N.Muggins : Part 1
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