Work

Gen Z retail worker requesting a mental health day in for big surprise

A 20-YEAR-OLD shop worker is sure his request for time out to aid his mental health will get a positive reaction from his managers.

Fire drills, and other brilliant disruptions to the office day

THERE’S nothing more magical than an unexpected event bringing your office to a standstill. Here are some distractions from work you pretend to hate but actual revel in.

Selfish Brits ruining economy by being paid enough to live

RISHI Sunak has criticised self-centred British wage earners for receiving pay rises sufficient to feed, clothe and house themselves.

Is your office politics worse than real politics?

BOTH are filled with backstabbers and sociopaths, but are your office politics worse than what goes on in Whitehall? Find out.

Six answers you're really tempted to give in your shitty work appraisal

HAVING an appraisal with your boss? Try to avoid the temptation to roll out one of these responses to their stupid f**king questions.

Identifying your co-workers by smell: Six summer plights of office workers

MILLIONS of office workers struggle through the gloomy depths of winter every year, hoping to be rewarded by summer. But the heat brings its own nightmarish ordeals.

Airline pilot, firefighter, football referee: five jobs that make men insecure when done by women

EVEN in 2023 there are some jobs so male-dominated that seeing a woman do them can shatter masculine self-confidence.

Man wastes toilet break by forgetting his phone

A MAN has squandered his hallowed daily bowel movement on company time by leaving his phone at his desk, it has emerged.

'You're only in charge because Janet left', and five other things you wish you could say to your shite boss

YOU know he’s shit. The whole office knows he’s shit. He, surely, must know he’s shit. But nobody is allowed to speak that truth, or these.

Young woman thinks older male colleague is 'being nice'

A 23-YEAR-OLD woman believes that her 40-year-old male colleague who is acting as a friend and mentor is acting out of simple kindness.