Archive | August, 2009
Guru’s Friday workplace funnies
It’s Friday so it must be time for some workplace funnies. Here’s five of the quirkiest workplace stories from this week.
Unemployed man puts himself up for sale on eBay
Robot chef cooks meals in new restaurant in China
Jobcentre… continue
Guru’s Friday time-wasting game
Guru stumbled across this excellent online game when looking to kill a few hours.Thanks to the good people at Hirescores.com for discovering the Tea Gauntlet gameMake sure you have another window open on your computer though so if the boss… continue
Personnel Today on tour
Köszönet to disciple Jo who sent in this pic of her partner at the Hungarian Grand Prix back in July.Good to see Personnel Today making an appearance at F1 racing. The sport has often been accused of being boring and… continue
HR hopefuls in Civil Service diversity awards
Guru can only wonder what it must be like to work in HR in Whitehall’s fabled corridors of power. Yours Truly has never been lucky enough to get a Civil Service gig, if he had then surely he would have… continue
Top 10 Edinburgh Fringe festival jokes
Wow your colleagues at work with these witty jokes, stolen from comedians at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe.
Dan Antopolski – “Hedgehogs – why can’t they just share the hedge?”
Paddy Lennox – “I was watching the London Marathon and saw… continue
Harriet Harperson eyes up naturists
Guru’s favourite female MP – Harriet Harman, sorry, Har-person is at it again. She’s found another ‘victim’ group to protect and looks set to legislate to ‘protect’ them.A submission written by campaign group British Naturism has been included in a… continue
Caster Semenya – new career in the City awaits
The recently humiliated South African gold medal winner Caster Semenya had three times female level of testosterone in body, according to media reports. Now this may or may not make her a man for the purposes of international athletics, but… continue
Crazy horse hair woman and other bad haircuts
Guru could not let the opportunity pass to show disciples a picture of this lovely lady and her beautifully shaped hair. The picture was taken at some posh do at the Deauville Casino in France on Sunday.
Imagine if one… continue
Guru’s Friday workplace funnies
Hooray it’s Friday and time for Guru’s weekly dose of workplace funnies. Here’s a selection of the weird and wonderful from the world of work this week. How’s that for alliteration?
Police sergeant performs three-week comedy run at Edinburgh Fringe… continue
Man injures himself to avoid work
The BBC is running a story about a hotel cleaner in Aberdeen who attacked himself with a boulder and a razor to avoid going to work.Steven Reid was on is way to work one day and just fancied a day… continue
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Guru is Personnel Today's notorious HR commentator. He's been working in HR for far too long and observes every passing management fad with a mixture of anger and amusement. His blog is the one thing saving his long-suffering wife, Mrs Guru, from having to endure too much of his ranting about the big HR stories of the day.

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