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There are jobs that are obviously dangerous - fireman, police officer, underperforming England footballer. And then there are those less dangerous. Guru was bemused to read, in Irish paper The Connacht Sentinel , of composting plant workers forced away from their pungent workplace by threatened physical violence. Why were they threatened? Did neighbours...

Guru always thought it was just chip-on-the-shoulder HR types who had a bee in their bonnet about their professional reputation - but apparently not. More than 100 clowns recently marched down the main streets of San Salvador chanting 'real clowns are not criminals'. Not a statement anyone who's paid a tenner to see some sad old sod in white...

Guru was amused to see the nickname Scottish coppers have given one of their fellow officers following his decision to issue a penalty notice to a driver who was blowing his nose while stuck in traffic. Michael Mancini was fined £60 and handed three penalty points by police for "not being in control of his vehicle". He had been sitting in...

We all know what a bunch of unethical charlatans those in the City are. But it really does seem that desperate times call for desperate measures as they are prepared to do almost anything to keep their jobs. A poll by IT security firm Cyber-Ark revealed a third of City workers would do their utmost to take a peek at the redundancy list to find out if...

There's bad days, and then there's really bad days. The next time disciples get home from work and moan at their nearest and dearest about their "horrible day at work", spare a thought for Sean Daley. Ex-pat Sean was running a mill in Bishkek, which everyone will know is the capital of Kyrgyzstan, when he was shot and sacked on the...

If there is one thing that keeps Guru getting up and going to the office every morning - the office being a well insulated and fully kitted out basement of his ex-directory secret residence - it is that no matter how much he dislikes work, he dislikes being at home more. Being at home these days is pretty much like watching an endless stream of brain...

One of Guru's eagle-eyed disciples has spotted the remarkable similarity between canoe wife fraudster Anne Darwin and the CBI's director of HR policy Susan Anderson. Separated at birth or something rather more sinister? Guru demands to be told...