Well, it was kind of as expected, to be honest. There was the carrot of extravagant praise, and then the stick of “Please try not to treat those people whom you think are idiots as if you think they are idiots”. I sort of nodded along with it, but as I was listening, I was [...]
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And That’s How I Didn’t Resign…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Appraisal, Old Friend at Work on March 28, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
And That’s How I Resigned In A Fit of Pique
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Advertising Agency, Appraisal, Fearless Leader on March 20, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Well, after six years of ambling along here, punctuated only by four job offers from the same agency (who obviously thrive on rejection), it has been announced that I am to have my review. On Friday. Now: I don’t WANT to have my review on Friday – and the reason for this is simple. I see-saw [...]
Playing Football With Baby
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baby, Chiswick, Daughter, Eldest Son, Family, Football, Richmond, Youngest Son on February 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
The last time that I had my children (Half-Term: brilliant), one of the things that I promised Youngest Son was that we would play football on Sunday. After Church, and after “I’ve bought a few things for lunch” and after “I’ve got the lunch under way.”. In readiness for this, we went off to Argos and [...]
Moving
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bamboo, Best Friend, Family, Garden Joy, Garden Rage, House, Moving, Old Friend at Work, Parents, Sister on January 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
So: after almost twenty months, more Estate Agents than I ever hope to encounter again in the rest of my life, an architect, a team of builders and a deep immersion in the auction houses of London, I am moving into my new house this weekend. The children have already seen it and given it [...]
The Wrong Sort of Energy
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Justin Bieber, Marketing, Project Names on January 16, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Who is to say what the factors are that will guarantee the creation of a positive environment, fizzing with positivity, “can do” spirit, determination to “go the extra mile” and other assorted marketing-speak calumnies? Well, I think I do – and as such, I have, of late, been devoting my energies to creating exactly that [...]
My Conflicted Emotions About Waitrose
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged "Don't Look Now", Richmond, Waitrose on November 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Having anything to say about Waitrose is almost as difficult for me as wearing a hat in Church would be: it feels wrong, I know it to BE wrong and it makes me feel desperately uncomfortable. And yet, and yet… Until I move into Future Home, I am still living with my saintly and fantastic [...]
Dude, Where’s My House?
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Builders, Gigantic Builder, House, Unfeasibly Attractive Girlfriend on October 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Ah, the horror, the horror! How well I remember the feeling from the first house that we bought (sight unseen by me, as it happens, with Ex-Wife and my mother making the decision together – and doing a fine job of it), when the builders have started to knock the living shit out of the [...]
I’m Not Going To Be An Architect.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Architect on October 13, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Oh well… another alternative career tumbles down and crashes around my feet, like the shards of a ten feet sheet of sugar toffee that has been hit with a sledgehammer. It turns out that I am NOT going to be an architect – and the reason for this is clear: they have far bendier brains than [...]
My Tells
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising, Best Friend, Lion Hands, Old Friend at Work, Poker Tell, Shark Eyes, Work on September 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The many Poker players among you will already have scented what my theme is. I have been advised (a number of times) that I have a set of “tells” which announce a set of different emotions on my behalf. I have seen this in others, of course. In Best Friend, it is the planting of [...]
