August 2009 - Guru Blog

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 heard of this crack team of HR pros? The categories for something called the Civil Service Diversity and Equality Awards include the impressively...

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 review into discrimination by the Government Equalities Office, reports the Times...

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 of your employees turned up for work one day with their hair like that - or shaped like any other animal. Yours Truly finds this picture...

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 off. Rather than phone in sick or fake a family tragedy like the rest of us would do, he cut his face repeatedly with a razor blade and picked up a boulder...

An overweight man today told NHS workers they needed to stop smoking, lose weight and generally stop being so unhealthy. A review of NHS staff health and wellbeing by Dr Steve Boorman found that nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals are not exactly a picture of health. But then neither is Boorman himself, judging by his picture on the review...

Disciples will recall that earlier this summer former estate agent Carole Bohanan beat 300 cackling crones to be the new Wookey Hole witch and a £50,000 pro-rata salary. Carole gave up her job as an estate agent in Shepton Mallet, Somerset to take up the post, which only actually requires her witchy services for 10 weeks of the year - so she's actually...

The UK's judiciary is often accused of being out of step with the times (see complete inability to grasp anything technical developed after the quill pen) and given to imposing ridiculously long sentences for relatively minor crimes while letting serial killers off with a slap on the wrist. But even Guru is impressed by news that a Chicago judge...