peterdarkdragon

It’s somewhat of a cliched saying that the modern world moves pretty fast but I’ve never really experienced that in a way like this week. One of my game plans for the year is to grab any opportunities that come along, so when I heard that work was offering an Apprenticeship for a Level 5 Operations Manager I jumped at it. I figured I might...
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Something of a strange feeling for me, anyone who knows me will tell you. First, there is the thing that I’ve mostly been a cat person up till now. Not entirely by choice. I’ve had two wonderful cats throughout my life and they all chose me, you could say. Kinda wandered in one day and made themselves at home.

Secondly, I’ve had kinda a phobia...
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And it seems today is that day. Even if technically I was feeling sick yesterday. Any other day I might have just taken a day off and rested up. But yesterday was the first work team day of the year, where as a group of managers we collectively set the focus for the year so I dosed myself up on painkillers and soldiered on. And...
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Not that I’m looking to jinx anything but I had my end of year review at work this week and around the discussion of goals throughout the year, it was mentioned by Mike (Deputy Branch Manager) that if the job was advertised today rather than filled by secondment, both he and the Branch Manager would want it to go to me.

Which changes my whole...
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For a lot of situations a golden rule. For matters of the heart, it’s very much the reverse of course. However in a situation that can be dangerous, it’s the only rule to go by. Something I wish a colleague at work had been aware of. I’ll set the scene, a few colleagues spot four customers who were looking like they were going to leave...
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Now, I’ll be honest. AI art still has its limitations, as my experiments this week have proved. To give a little background, I’ve recently signed up to access a AI art generator through DeviantArt and have been putting it through its paces, testing out the limits of its knowledge base and ability to follow a prompt. The results as you might expect have been a...
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This is it. One last day of work madness until the big day. This is always the day that it is hardest to predict. There are only two possible outcomes given previous years. Bedlam. Or deserted. That’s it, nothing in between. Still, it’s going to be fun and I can look forward to starting the Christmas celebrations tonight with a delicious festive cocktail mixed by...
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…well more like Mince Pies and Champagne. I’m not normally a heavy drinker but Christmas is something of an exception. Not that I get smashed or anything but with Bucks Fizz with breakfast, wine for lunch, cocktails in the evening, it’s the most boozy day of the year for me.

Mixed around that are presents, I’m looking forward to my usual mix of fun and...
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…but you shouldn’t do something just because it’s not something you would normally do. Call it peer pressure, call it feeling it was the thing to do, call it seeming like it was a good idea at the time; tonight was my work management Christmas meal and I really hadn’t been looking forward to it. Not that I’d been dreading it or anything like that,...
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That’s what it feels like at work at the moment as we approach the last ten days before Christmas. The current little idea Management wants us to put into action is facing across areas where we don’t have stock to make an improvement on store presentation. In a nutshell if we only have one line on a shelf we are to spread that stock out...
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