I once read that introverts prefer cats and extroverts dogs. This is true in my case, and also because I find cats more intelligent. My girlfriend says my relationship with...

I would class myself generally as introverted as other people can tire me. I don't suffer fools gladly but because of their long experience they wear me down!

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During the early years in the company,y where I worked longest, the first MD, who had worked his way up, was quite visionary and shortly after I started the company...

This made me think about previous jobs and reasons for leaving. Ignoring casual labouring and very short term jobs there have been four where I have stayed for periods between...

It is incredibly important. Some years ago a senior manager brought two old friends into the company. Whilst each new certain areas they were quite limited in their skillsets. However...

When I was made redundant may years ago Human Remains came up with a document to sign regarding patents, IPR, etc. It was total nonsense as it would virtually mean...

For goodness sake it is just a date in the Gregorian. It is a different date in the Hindu, Chinese and many other calendrers! But then two planes crashed on...

I actually finds it disturbing how much information some of these companies have access to! Just over a year ago I was told that a certain company would do a...

In my experience "blame" culture is a top down thing. In one company I worked for when I started the MD (when did MDs and chairmen become CEOs?) had worked...

I think prioritizing is even harder for younger people brought up in the last couple of decades. The hours they can waste on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and...

Tend very much to agree with the previous comments. Terms like "Big data", "Data mining" and "Data scientist" are used far to randomly these days often with no real understanding....