Stop what you’re doing and scan your eyes around your office. What do you see… …neutral-coloured walls scarred with that long-forgotten whiteboard presentation and a faded corporate wall calendar from one of your suppliers? Is it all bathed in the combined glow of computer screens and strip lighting, reflecting their glare into the dead eyes of your colleagues? If your answer is ...
Mad Max, upon finding himself in a post-apocalyptic society where the only rules were to make your own rules, decided to tackle the problem of conserving his dwindling fuel supplies by driving around in a V8 muscle car, armed to the teeth and acting like an all round bad ass. Today, as fuel prices start to spiral, we don’t quite recommend ...
Sticky carpets. Unidentified smears on the walls. The overwhelming acrid stench of doom. Sit back and let me show you around some of the most untidy offices in Britain! 1. The classic Sometimes people are simply a bit messy, and that’s not always a bad thing. Maybe they’ve had some deadlines to meet and so not had time to clear their ...
Darwin got it all wrong! The man may have risked professional suicide with the publication of his 'On the Origin of Species' — showing that humans evolved from pelicans* to develop opposable thumbs, simply due to the 'struggle of survival' — but he still missed the real reason. *Darwin may not have claimed humans evolved from pelicans We now know that humans ...
Twitter! What in Hell’s teeth is it all about? Read this quick guide and you’ll quickly be up to speed and tweeting like Stephen Fry in a stuck lift (and perhaps you’ll understand that reference too)! You may have heard Twitter being bandied about in recent times and filed it away as something for teenagers and the type of 30-something male ...
Ever experienced this... "Oh $%*£, the boss is looking. Must close Facebook NOW!". Of course you have you naughty little so and so. I'm sure that in just a few short years, Facebook alone has evolved the human reaction time to hit a close browser button at a speed that would make even Darwin's beard curl. But what if you're too slow? What ...
Are you looking for 7 excuses to use Facebook at work? Cartridge Save do not recommend any of the following diets... Did you put on a couple of extra pounds over the Christmas period? When you returned to the office, did your co-workers complain about the still-lingering smell of mince pies? Did you decide one of your New Year’s resolutions was to go ...
Today’s modern office is full of slick gadgets, all happily Blue-Toothing, Cloud-Computing and WiFi-ing each other with gay abandon. But there is a ghost at the feast. Lurking in a darkened corner is an off-white leviathan of a machine that has long outstayed its welcome. It’s a relic, full of Dickensian moving parts (moving parts, I ask you!) and little bottles of ...
Wish you could accomplish twice the tasks in half the time? Want to kick back for half the week and groove to Phil Collins while still getting high-fived by the boss come clocking off time? Leave all the thankless, ineffectual and repetitive tasks to those dandruff-dusted, bottom-feeders in your office and use my following tips to working less, but doing more… 1. Kill ...
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the iPad. Is it simply the coolest gadget for watching YouTube, or is it the Genesis in modern business computing? Either way, I strongly believe you should — nay must — get your hands on one. Oh, and of course I believe that your work should pay for it too. Here are the 11 arguments that you ...
