Tag archive for ‘my employer’
Glow in the dark gadgets
After being on study leave for over a week, there’s quite a lot to do at my employer. I’m really not a morning person, so of course I arrived at my average-ish 9:30am – with my usual red puffy eyes.
Company policy forces me to work an average of 7,5 hours a day and I get [...]
Freedom of speech stops before the hand that feeds you
You will notice that all references to my employer are now solely “my employer” or “my company”.
It seems my employer, like many other companies, is registered at Monitoring SA or a similar place. The people at Marketing get an email every morning with a list of new web pages that contain certain keywords, obviously including [...]
Drie Pikkewyne wat Jonk Bly
This week the internal concerts at my company are on again! Whooohooo!
It seems we’ve gone a full circle. We started in the auditorium in 2004. We’re back in the auditorium. We started on a very tight budget in 2004. We’re back on an even tighter budget. I had to sing the upbeat Afrikaans songs [...]
Pop Idol
The last few years I became quite the performer in the annual company concert. It was a modest start back in 2004… the brainchild of Gavin Reddy who thought it would be a good morale booster for the otherwise depressed nose-to-the-grindstone-who-never-take-coffee-breaks employees . I attended that frightning “auditions”, singing a good ol’ classic, [...]