“YOU’RE really putting me in an awkward position here, we’re already short two for the afternoon ‘cus Jack and Ellen are selfishly off getting their vaccines,” snarled retail business owner Alan Fannon down the phone to a former employee recently deceased from Covid complications. “C’mon, you owe me one, remember when you rang me from… Read more »
SO YOU’RE vaccinated and the only side effect is the smug sense of superiority you feel over everyone and anyone expressing an opinion counter to your own. But now some of your younger employees or co-workers are still humming and hawing over getting theirs? WWN has put together this handy guide to guilt tripping those… Read more »
THE idea of a four-day working week held great appeal to many workers up until very recently, when it turned out that most employers are okay with testing the notion on a trial basis; a sure sign to many that working conditions are about to get worse, not better. “I don’t like it, sarge” said… Read more »
TRYING to nip any talk of a 4-day working week from employees in the bud after news of government support for a pilot scheme, the boss at Hartigan Business Solutions has confirmed he would rather see his elderly parents make their way through the Kama Sutra than submit to such a thing. “I’m onto these… Read more »
HOMEOWNERS desperate for paint jobs, attic conversions and various other ‘few little bits’ jobs done around the house are parting with eye-watering amounts of money on the black market, according to a new report that suggests that a tradesman with the ability to tile could fetch as much as 1.4 million to do a downstairs… Read more »
“AMID the chaos of the Coronavirus pandemic, there is life. There is growth” our guide tells us, as he leads us deeper and deeper into what was once the accounts wing of an office that served some long-forgotten task. “Over here we see a succulent plant, which pre-pandemic would have doubtlessly been killed by, let… Read more »
SICK of smug work colleagues coming back from undesignated smoke breaks and getting away with it all the time while you sit there adhering to the break rules like a big dope? WWN is on hand on with this handy guide on taking up smoking, or at least, pretending you do. If you are going… Read more »
EMPLOYEES at a Waterford accountancy firm have been sending each other WhatsApps on the sly during an all-staff Zoom call with their boss Fintan Armstrong, to see if he’s actually being serious when he talks emotionally about how ‘the whole team can’t wait to get back in the building’. “Is he for fucking real?” asked… Read more »
ACKNOWLEDGING the new Code of Practice introduced today by the government regarding employees’ right to switch off from work outside of office hours, local boss Eamon Cannity confirmed to his employees he has the right to disconnect them from their fucking jobs if they even start with that ‘right to disconnect’ bullshit. “It’s not an… Read more »
NEWS that the 400m, 200,000 tonne cargo ship known as the ‘Ever Given’ has managed to wrestle itself free of its entanglement on the banks of the Suez Canal after a week-long catastrophe that caused billions of dollars worth of delays and untold environmental damage should be enough motivation for even the most had-it-up-to-here people… Read more »