The old joke about lost screws and dad spending Christmas morning assembling the kids toys is getting a bit

The Manchester Evening News is to stop carrying “Personal Services” ads.

I went away for the weekend and stayed in a rather nice hotel. This is a major rarity for me as for holidays

Guitarists today don’t know they’re born! Not only can you buy pretty good instruments for

I always wanted to work for small companies & apart from my first job which was in a hospital (the NHS being the largest employer outside the red army) I have managed to do so. Accordingly I have always reported to the MD or at most one down from him (or her it would be nice to say, but they were all him’s).

However my most recent small company was bought by smallish US company a couple of years back. As of this month I am now part of 150,000 employees as we have been acquired again.

The facelessness & pointlessness of it is terrifying. I’ve been “onboarded” in a session aimed at the sales team of company that acquired us before & that I never felt a part of, given a new pc totally inappropriate for the work I do & most galling told the office will close so I must become a home worker (without any consultation).

To work from home I need to do some conversion work to my house - about

Not having a good day, so far I have :