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The Supervisor of Customer Service Hell: July 2005
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The Supervisor of Customer Service Hell. I am the company's wage-slave, my manager's gofer, the puppet of the upper brass, the faceless representative of "The Man" - the one that's responsible for shepherding over of all this misery that you see. Part Sisyphus, part masochist, part helpless opportunist, I am good and evil, love and hate, generosity and greed, all rolled into one. Are you one of mine? Then do your job, shut up, and have a nice fucking day. Sunday, July 31, 2005. The circle of life. And sq...
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The fossilised power of the older worker | Flip Chart Fairy Tales
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Flip Chart Fairy Tales. Business Bullshit, Corporate Crap and other stuff from the World of Work. How golden is the golden age of small business? A ‘could do better’ for Britain’s managers →. The fossilised power of the older worker. 13 March, 2015. Yesterday’s Resolution Foundation’s report on living standards. Chris Giles responded with a piece on the “The dark underbelly of Britain’s jobs miracle”. The gains for older workers come not because they are worth it but through the exercise of power. They a...
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Which bits of the state do you plan to close, minister? | Flip Chart Fairy Tales
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Flip Chart Fairy Tales. Business Bullshit, Corporate Crap and other stuff from the World of Work. Deficit reduction plan disappears into La La Land. Small pay rise, big debt rise →. Which bits of the state do you plan to close, minister? 5 December, 2014. The Chancellor tried his best to put a positive spin on the Autumn Statement but any optimism was snuffed out. By the IFS yesterday. Here’s IFS Director Paul Johnson. Which, he said, implies austerity until the end of the decade.:. T]here is no spending...
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Austerity: as you were | Flip Chart Fairy Tales
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Flip Chart Fairy Tales. Business Bullshit, Corporate Crap and other stuff from the World of Work. A ‘could do better’ for Britain’s managers. The 2019 deficit target is still a big ask →. Austerity: as you were. 19 March, 2015. George Osborne has eased off. Public service spending projections. Economic and fiscal outlook December 2014. OBR Economic and fiscal outlook March 2015. So has George Osborne called time on austerity Britain. Crisis and consolidation in the public finances, OBR, September 2014.
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The Dali Grind: Surreal Stories about Real Jobs: January 2005
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The Dali Grind: Surreal Stories about Real Jobs. Have you ever had a work experience that was funny, bizarre, or just plain awful? Share your experience so we can all laugh at those who frustrated you. Email us your stories at daligrind@att.net. And we'll post the choicest ones. We don't publish real names of you, your coworkers or your employer. Sunday, January 30, 2005. DALI SAYS: Anonymous Work Blogs. Some prescient folks have been blogging about their jobs. Saturday, January 29, 2005. Her secretary w...
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How to reduce your gender pay gap | Flip Chart Fairy Tales
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Flip Chart Fairy Tales. Business Bullshit, Corporate Crap and other stuff from the World of Work. Or just a re-enactment? Fixing A&E →. How to reduce your gender pay gap. 9 May, 2013. Sometimes you come across counterintuitive facts that make you step back and wonder if everything you thought you knew was wrong, like America spending more per capita on healthcare. Than Britain or Stephanie Flanders not being head girl. At school or Italy being the first country to eliminate its full-time gender pay gap.
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Will employers’ gender pay gap figures tell us anything new? | Flip Chart Fairy Tales
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Flip Chart Fairy Tales. Business Bullshit, Corporate Crap and other stuff from the World of Work. The financialisation of slavery. Why a richer Africa means more migrants →. Will employers’ gender pay gap figures tell us anything new? 17 July, 2015. The government is consulting. On the detail of its proposal. Debra Leaker’s study. For the ONS found that the gender pay gap increased with the number of children people had. More children made little difference to men’s earnings but had a big impac...Women t...
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The Tories and welfare: Machiavellian or just muddling through? | Flip Chart Fairy Tales
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Flip Chart Fairy Tales. Business Bullshit, Corporate Crap and other stuff from the World of Work. Recovery: Was that it? Are the Conservatives ideologically driven state-shrinkers? The Tories and welfare: Machiavellian or just muddling through? 1 May, 2015. This week, the IFS finished their painstaking task of trying to understand the parties’ tax and spending plans, based on what little they’ve said. There are gaps and inconsistencies in all of them. The Conservatives have been talking about saving 12 b...
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12 billion flying pigs | Flip Chart Fairy Tales
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Flip Chart Fairy Tales. Business Bullshit, Corporate Crap and other stuff from the World of Work. The future of work: Tech Yeah! UK self-employment: success story or basket case? 12 billion flying pigs. 16 January, 2015. A couple of reports on. Social security spending came out either side of Christmas. The Institute for Fiscal Studies. More than half of the benefit spending goes to pensioners:. The components are easier to see from the second report, published last week by the House of Commons Library.
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Inequality in the UK | Flip Chart Fairy Tales
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Flip Chart Fairy Tales. Business Bullshit, Corporate Crap and other stuff from the World of Work. A 1995 immigration target for a 2015 economy. What will your powerhouse do for you? Inequality in the UK. 27 May, 2015. Is inequality increasing in the UK? According to last week’s report on pay distribution. By the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions (Eurofound), the UK has the most unequal wages in the EU. Here, the UK’s skewed wage distribution becomes even clear...
