if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

Whenever I get a new supervisor, they always want to know how I can share my knowledge, or how other people can support me by doing somethin...

Recently I entered the late-twentieth century at work: I was gifted a Tableau licence. Tableau is a data visualisation tool, basically a sli...

I can't resist this. Every month we have to do Mandatory Training. It doesn't actually train us to do anything, it's a box-ticki...

Every now and then, we do Colours. It’s supposed to make us aware of each others' differing personal styles and so help us work better t...

We have to do “Mandatory Training” every month at The Bank. Year after year it’s the same old stuff. Every year there’s a health and safety ...

I have no idea what overcame the otherwise sensible, conservative people who work around me, but last week one of the senior managers decora...

At my age? I'm supposed to be waiting out the years until I can collect my pension. Yet my manager talks about "development opport...

I have just discovered that somewhere inside the Marketing department of The Bank is a person, or perhaps a whole department, who approves...

I've long believed that I'm at my most valuable when designing and coding software for my employers. Getting in the outsiders does r...

I write a weekly commentary about the competition's price changes. I use a sharp style, speculating about why the change might have bee...

There was a very good article in the Guardian  last week about Wonga . In case you've been on Mars the last couple of years, Wonga are ...

In my first couple of years at The Bank I was always feeling as if there was six month's work for me and then I would be out, as the jo...

There's a fascinating article in The New Yorker   about how valuable being able meet other random smart people is for generating good id...

Look at this year's job title and it says something about "Insight Analyst". If you've never run across one of those, it...

We were moved to a new office a couple of weeks ago. Right next to Liverpool Street station. Some people think that means that we're now...

A couple of weeks ago I said that it was too quiet in here: no-one was talking about the upcoming re-organisation. Soon after that, we got t...

A few weeks ago, our CEO announced that 15,000 jobs would be "saved" over the next three years. Not from the poor bloody infantry ...

I thought I would bring you this piece of silliness, to add to all the other silliness of the season, from those people who brought you Lend...

It's been Diversity Week at The Bank. In common with all large institutional British companies, The Bank is pretty much British, white a...

I have done my share of bitching and moaning about The Bank. And I will do some more when they deserve it. But a couple of weeks ago somethi...