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Just got called a star and a half by another colleague. I have no idea why they're being so nice to me.

It really is. I felt a bit silly she took the time to pen it but was delighted she had.

A colleague sent me a very sweet email because I left an orange on her desk when she was on a conference call and seemed a bit stressed.

A new staff member joined my team and has already used "smash the patriarchy" and "performative" in conversation. I think we are going to get on fine.

What I do in my own time is my own business. I told my colleague this morning that I almost sent them a "Go to bed!" email at 11pm.

Colleagues emailing me after 10pm. I'm not complaining about them, it shows their dedication, but it's insane. There is a massive contingency element to our roles but they're being run ragged by the demands of their roles.

I've recently had an all around unpleasant experience with a staff member of mine being poached or half poached. Massive discontent and miscommunication and distrust, all while trying to keep the job being done and all who report to me happy. I'm a bit exhausted with it all.

I have seldom directly experienced this. Most roles I've had have been slightly too much to be doing most of the time. It's sometimes insane how much you're expected to do with so little.

When my friend joined R*venu* in 2015, a manager came down to his desk and told him politely to slow things down a bit as he was showing up colleagues with his work rate. Then a while later, another officer came along trying to ascertain if it was true someone had been advising staff to slow...

Are you working in a government department?

None of these alternatives are better and they're not entirely synonymous. That cite is bullshit. You can't say a word that has existed for centuries and that has a slightly different meaning and connotations to the word lesson is an incorrect word. It's entirely appropriate in the context I...

Saying learnings lessens the amount of words you need to say to say you learned your lessons.

Yeah, I used the term because it is useful. Knowledge also isn't synonymous with learnings. This hill I shall die on.

It is now.

Learnings! Most appropriate when describing a sub-optimal result.

Don't join the Civil Service.

STARL, baby!

I set my out of office because I had a medical appt this afternoon and I'm off until Thursday. I told a colleague to ring my work phone if there was any emergency, laughing that it would be unlikely. At 3.20pm I got a phone call.

If you had an egg.

I got promoted a few months back. My latest job is way slower paced than any previous office job I've had. Told a colleague earlier, sometimes when I'm working from home and Inbox is quiet, I wonder how long it would take for anyone to notice if I just did nothing. It's been difficult to adjust...