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Here's a screenshot of a 'work' conversation that just went viral. How do you feel for Jake? And what do you think to his boss? As the lad bringing it to the attention of the world rightly notes, this is indeed an indicator of truly 'budget leadership'. He concludes; This

Make 100 calls a day, City wealth fund orders trainees on £24k So ran the broadsheet headline this month opening a piece destroying the ethics within a financial boiler room. For good measure, warning from the off that 'the job is ‘not for the faint-hearted’ despite low salary'. Here's samples

These criminals deserve jail. The deception of the vulnerable is heinous. Don't be like these baddies. I heard a trading standards officer called Sue describe the scene upon obtaining a warrant and entering their offices. 'All the staff were standing, because apparently they weren't allowed to sit down until they

I was in close proximity to a techie talking with a client. Soft spoken, deliberate, measured speech. The phone conversation focused on an issue one had which the other could aid. There was a 'we could do this, we could do that' segment. Just as the chat seemed to be

Spoiler Alert: Price is not an over-riding factor. I discovered the interesting switcheroo at play from disclosure of someone helping secure prime property for the past twenty years in the fierce London house market [sub'n req'd]. Here's opening observations offered; Securing your first-choice property at the right price isn’t

It feels fashionable nowadays to give in to demands. Part appeasement, part assuaging guilt, part moral high ground. Yet when such demands are so outrageous as to be not only unfounded but also unduly crippling, why persist? As the ol' saying allows, you can change your mind when the facts

I've followed this story fairly closely. Mini-nuclear reactors, aka Small Modular Reactors (SMRs), are the future. After all, as the lay would say, 'we've had nuclear powered submarines for how long...?'. One of those long logical technological evolutions that only now can be seemingly realised. A safe, small-scale, mobile