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  • "G4" emails reveal friends sharing a joke

    Details of private emails between a bunch of former public schoolboys, who call themselves the “G4”, discussing an impending trip to to the Dubai 7s rugby tournament in March have emerged, rather embarrassing the G4 boys, who are all former public-schoolboys now fulfilling predictable roles as traders, bankers and lawyers. The Telegraph...
    Published 9 Feb 2012 10:32 AM by Guru

  • Network Rail faces tough decision on bonuses

    The six executive directors of Network Rail could be in line for bonuses worth up to 60% of their annual salaries, the Independent reports today . For anybody sent into a spiral of confusion by that news, Network Rail really is just what it sounds like: the company responsible for the railway network in this country. And this country is the UK, not...
    Published 3 Feb 2012 12:11 PM by Guru

  • Brighton bus drivers face "babe" ban

    Image: Rex Features Guru exclusively refers to his female colleagues as “hot stuff”, “sweet cheeks”, “good-loooking” and “toots” and all manner of other affectionate business terms. Consequently, he was horrified to read that bus drivers for the Brighton and Hove Bus and Coach Company have been warned...
    Published 1 Feb 2012 11:52 AM by Guru

  • Disney lifts the beard ban

    Image: Rex Features After 60 years of living in terror of persecution, Disney employees are finally able to look a little tiny bit like they might be Communists, as Disney has announced that customer-facing staff can now have beards . Why don’t they just go and dance on poor Walt’s grave?! The amendment loosens up the “ Disney Look...
    Published 25 Jan 2012 2:07 PM by Guru

  • Holiday Inn and Crowne Plaza in uniform extravaganza

    Image: Rex Features Sometimes Guru counts himself extremely lucky to have such a huge media presence. Today was just such a day. If Guru hadn’t been Guru, renowned HR blogger and philanthropist (once bought a Big Issue), he might not have been lucky enough to receive the 600-word press release that changed his life: Holiday Inn has introduced...
    Published 25 Jan 2012 1:48 PM by Guru

  • Hungry MPs and the case of the missing 10g

    Image: Rex Features Packets of crisps in the House of Commons restaurant can be up to 10g below the promised weight of 34.5g. Such is the sort of crap MPs have to put up with, or up with put, as Winston Churchill wouldn’t have said. This horrifying glimpse into the world of MPs comes from written feedback left at the Members’ and Strangers’...
    Published 24 Jan 2012 8:34 AM by Guru

  • Policeman tweets his way into disciplinary meeting

    Image: Rex Features Dorset policeman Nick Manning is facing disciplinary action for tweeting about the damage public sector cuts are having on the force . His senior officers seem to have particularly objected to a tweet indicating that the North Dorset force was running on a skeleton crew. The tweet read: “Last 3 nights in North Dorset, 3 cops...
    Published 19 Jan 2012 10:52 AM by Guru

  • Not teaching in Glasgow proves profitable for teacher

    In a time of rampant cuts, Glasgow City Council may be feeling a little nervous after it emerged that it had continued paying a teacher for two years after she’d left employment in the area . The teacher was paid £82,635 by the council between 2006 and 2008. The General Teaching Council for Scotland found it “difficult to understand”...
    Published 12 Jan 2012 11:25 AM by Guru

  • Guru Christmas 2011 Blog Spectacular

    Image: Rex Features It’s almost Christmas and Guru can’t find anything interesting to comment on. Knowing that what most people will be hoping for in their metaphorical stocking will be a new Guru post to read for Christmas, Guru would like to introduce the Guru Christmas 2011 Blog Spectacular. The Guru Christmas 2011 Blog Spectacular takes...
    Published 23 Dec 2011 11:53 AM by Guru

  • Personal emails - the lesser of two evils

    Image: Rex Features According to a press release from Cartridge Save , in a working year the average employee writes the equivalent of four Harry Potter books in personal emails. Guru suspects that this is meant to be an alarming comparison, but all those imaginary emails sound fairly benign when compared to the imaginary Harry Potter novels the employees...
    Published 21 Dec 2011 7:54 AM by Guru

  • Top interview tip: keep candidates behind a bush

    Image: Rex Features According to research from Airdri, as many as one in five candidates could be missing out on jobs because of bad handshakes. Airdri worked with language expert Judi James to discover this. According to the press release, Judi James is “renowned”, probably meaning that she occasionally goes on telly to talk about what...
    Published 7 Dec 2011 12:08 PM by Guru

  • Overlooked for promotion? Try being more unpleasant

    Image: Rex Features Nice guys finish last. It’s official. An American study has found that agreeable men earn, on average, $7,000 less than disagreeable men ( I didn’t get where I am today by being nice… ). It also found that women earn about 14% less than men, which, if Mrs Guru is anything to go by, can’t be explained by how...
    Published 5 Dec 2011 8:47 AM by Guru

  • Elvis Costello not suited to sales role

    Line managers of sales staff might sympathise with Universal Music. Although plenty of managers will have sales staff who just won’t work hard enough, or refuse to up-sell, few will have to deal with staff issuing statements discouraging customers from buying their products. But this is just what Elvis Costello has done - taking to his website...
    Published 29 Nov 2011 11:31 AM by Guru

  • What's in a name?

    Image: Rex Features Reading the very excellent Flip Chart Fairytales blog on income inequality and some analysis of the faulty logic behind senior management pay , Guru was struck by a neat corollary between nonsense job titles and the pay debate. CEO pay is often justified by comparison with the pay of other CEOs, often on other continents, with the...
    Published 23 Nov 2011 10:08 AM by Guru

  • Blatter announces realisation of Martin Luther King's dream

    Image: Rex Features Guru has had a busy morning rewriting the company’s equal opportunities policy to take note of recent evidence that racism doesn’t actually exist, and that if it does it’s not really that big a deal now is it ( Sepp Blatter urged to stand down from Fifa position by PFA chief and UK Sports Minister for racism views...
    Published 17 Nov 2011 2:11 PM by Guru
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