December 2007 Archives

Not wishing to drive a wedge between OOs and DOs I came across this league table of pay for different occupations. It's amazing how much difference one letter can make, 165 places in this case.

If this is a familiar scene to anyone out there at the moment you have my deepest sympathies. Not only do you have to appraise all of the your staff but if a report on the the BBC website is to be believed staff actually resent being appraised and think their bosses are being dishonest.
Dishonest in an appraisal perish the thought!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7126971.stm

A wide range of things happen across my desk and I have to say these are of variable quality. Every so often though a little gem appears, a gem that encompasses, in a few short words, a trend that is driving us all mad. One such piece of correspondence, sent in by a leading member of the optical industry, was the cutting below from a journal called Photonics Spectra.