There are a myriad strategies of work avoidance, and we’ve all employed them in some way or another, probably even at some point today, possibly even right now – perhaps you’re reading this to avoid something more pressing, something more taxing…

You’d think that the opportunity to spend a WHOLE day out of the office, unchained from your desk, possibly frolicking in the great outdoors, would elicit at least a small degree of pleasure, but, frankly, no. Well at least not in anyone who’s…

Forgive the trashy Nineties film reference, but it’s so ingrained in my mind that it really wouldn’t be right not to mention it. I’m talking about Romy and Michele’s High School Reunion, with the fantastic tagline “The Blonde Leading The Blonde…

There’s something innately and irrationally satisfying about clubbing together all of your change for the grossly overpriced cigarette machine, feeding in the pound coins that clunk their way through and have to be fed in again because for some…

Perhaps the secretary died out with the typewriter. Or was it with the invention of the BlackBerry? Then again, maybe she (and in the popular imagination, she is most certainly female – in fact in my imagination she is Maggie Gyllenhaal, in black…