June 2009 - Guru Blog

Here's a new online game to keep disciples amused over the long summer months. It's called HR-Mageddon and the aim is to take over the office before your rival does. You have to capture cubicles and ultimately win by destroying all of your rival's employees. So not entirely dissimilar to a redundancy situation then. Read More...

Just like when fellow freak of nature Jade Goody left this earth back in March, hundreds, if not thousands of people with nothing better to do will very publicly mourn the death of Michael Jackson today. And because it's a Friday, expect a few more to phone in sick claiming they are too upset to come to work. Guru was a big fan of Jacko's music...

Here's the latest HR look-a-likie, sent in by disciple Rushna. She says: "Rick Stein is the spitting image of Matt Burghardt - our Asst Director of HR in Bradford! Needless to say, it may be the end of my HR career when he clocks his face staring back at him one day if you were to print this image." Disciples can judge for themselves....

Police forces across the UK have been somewhat beleagured recently. They've been accused of violently quelling protests . They've even been accused of torturing suspects. Questions have been asked about their recruitment procedures. Who are they hiring, and why? But Guru is delighted to report that one recruit is proving his worth - and then...

The HR profession has oft been accused of having a touch of Mickey Mouse about it, so Guru is delighted finally to have cold, hard evidence. Next Wednesday, a crack HR team - perhaps named Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy. Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy - will descend upon the magic castle (Disney UK's Hammersmith office, to those of you not in the know) to...

Guru hears of a novel way for illegal workers to get residency in an EU country - lose an arm. This was the strange twist of fate that led Bolivian bakery worker Franns Rilles Melgar from illegal to legal immigrant over the course of a few days in Valencia. Melgar, 33, had worked illegally at the Rovira bakery in Real de Gandia, Valencia for two years...

In the words of the 1920s novelty song: "Yes we have no bananas, we have no bananas today". Guru thinks that should be the new song for children at Stoke Damerel Primary School in Plymouth after they were banned from bringing in bananas because of a staff allergy. The banana boycott has been branded "over the top" by the council...