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Tag Archives: colleague
Is Dr Who to blame for a shrinking world? (Rousse)
When the elevator doors opened I was disappointed to see that the lift was minuscule. How would we all fit in there? ‘Just go in one at a time’ my colleague suggested. It was clear that she could not see … Continue reading
A messy office Christmas party followed by seaside coffee and cake in Aberdeen (Rousse)
A mixture of colleagues from all stages of my career came to the staff Christmas party. These included: my old boss JH; the wife and eldest daughter of my old office-mate SM; current colleagues DB and LD; a tall, skinny, … Continue reading
Back to work in boxer shorts (Rousse)
Dressed in thin cotton boxer shorts, I arrived back at work after the Christmas holiday to find that someone had moved my desk into a shabby shared office with FR, IB, IH and SS. Here it was freezing cold, the … Continue reading
Exam scripts and snogging in the School office (Rousse)
There were strange goings-on in the School office. Admin staff were marking exam scripts with the authority of (retired) lecturer RK. ‘It’s easy enough to check that the numbers at the end of the calculations are the same as in … Continue reading
University cuts pay bill by cutting academic hours by a third (Rousse)
When JK hacked into RK’s email account he found over 5000 confidential messages exchanged between university admin staff on the subject of academic pay. The Principal had had a hard choice to make in respect of financial savings. To avoid … Continue reading
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Tagged academic, bag, bill, Christmas, colleague, confidential, cut, drop, email, finanical, gauze, hack, hours, pay, present, Principal, redundancies, redundancy, saving, semester, toiletries, university
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A Christmas party and a visit to Dream (Rousse)
The cost of signing up for the departmental Christmas party was so great that only twelve people turned up for the celebration. Nevertheless, I enjoyed the company of JB, BD and FR at my table – even though BD made … Continue reading
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Tagged bill, celebration, Christmas, colleague, cost, dream, drive, estimate, Haddington, high, hill, meeting, party, Peugeot 205, red, road, St Andrews, steep, street, table
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Doing the dirty work for HR (Rousse)
I was the toast of our HR department. WT congratulated me on having persuaded a hopeless colleague to give up a role for which he was clearly unsuited. It now looked like I was going to be asked to complete … Continue reading
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Tagged challenge, colleague, congratulate, department, dirty, flatmate, hopeless, HR, note, role, toast, work
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Sarong underwear (Rousse)
I pulled my former colleague AT up the muddy bank to the gap in the wall that led to the open countryside. At first I thought that it was too small to accommodate us, but GB demonstrated that the space … Continue reading
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Tagged bank, clothes, colleague, countryside, cyclist, green, mud, rip, sarong, trousers, underwear, undress, wall
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Wear fur and wool to beat the winter office blues (Rousse)
LJ was so cold that she had turned invisible. The only reason we knew that she in the office and curled around the radiator was the direction from which we could hear her voice. Back in my own room I … Continue reading
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