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Superscreen: The Best Radio Commercial Ever

When the gaffer of Superscreen was unhappy with a radio jingle script, he wrote it himself and locked the staff in the office until midnight...

15 Comments Russ Litten

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Behind Every Successful Man Is A Woman Rolling Her Eyes

It's about time we dismissed some myths about the forever changing lifestyle of the modern woman...

5 Comments Katie Herridge

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Confessions of a Cab Driver Part 3: Through the Night Darkly

Have you ever watched a cabbie getting beat-up or abused? Maybe you've seen it through your window and stayed inside. Think again next time.

9 Mr Taxi Man

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World Poetry Day: Me, Bukowski And The Indignity Of Work

As a child, the adult world of work loomed heavily on the horizon. Luckily I found Charles Bukowski to read when I got home from the days hawking spuds and selling puppets...

29 Russ Litten

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You're Not My Friends, I Just Work Here

I go to work to work, not to hear about your impending sprog, flick through your holiday snaps or buy you a birthday cake.

50 Vicky Priolo

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Why Pope Francis Might Not Be Catholic After All

As the election of the new Pope Francis still dominates the news agenda, we ask for the answer to an obvious question...

Nick Margerrison

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A Day In The Life Of An NHS Nurse: Hit, Spat At And Smelling Of Shite

I'm sick of nurses getting a bad press. We do a thankless job, get paid buttons and have been used as scapegoats for failings up the NHS hierarch...

20 Melanie Fullard

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The Position Of My Employer Has Become Open

This is a rare opportunity to be the boss you’ve always dreamed of being, as the position of my new employer has become open.

2 Alice White

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The Ten Customers That All Waitresses Want To Throttle

Annoying teenagers, overprotective mum and pervy old man. Some customers just make us waitresses want to smash your main course over your head...

14 Amber Paradine

Confessions Of A Pet Shop Owner

If you think owning a pet shop is 100% fun, games, goldfish and cuteness then think again. It's all dogs shitting blood and requests for turkey shampoo...

23 Comments @steveindisguise

8 Things I Hate About Work

I don't mind the work so much as the breakout zones, away days and tiresome cliches. Just leave me alone and let me...

13 Comments Richard Price

Confessions Of A Minimum Wage Worker

Twenty years after leaving university I find myself doing soul-sappingly dull work in a warehouse clinging to one b...

30 Comments The Trackie-Bottomed Somnambulist

How To Get Ahead in Advertising

Let’s face it, 99% of advertising is pure torture, like being trapped in a Fritzl-esque basement with the Go Comp...

15 Comments Lucy Sweet

Mind The Gap: The Inside Story of A Very British Fiasco

I've been working as one of the voices of the underground since 1999 and the furore that kicked off after an interv...

18 Comments Emma Clarke

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5 Things Every
Commuter Fears

Like it or lump it, the daily commute is as necessary a part of the working ritual as photocopying your arse at the staff party. That said though...

4 Dina Murphy

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I Take My Clothes Off
For A Living

With my rent due and debt rising it was either sell my body to the highest bidder or take my clothes off for complete strangers and let them draw...

8 Eno Enefiok

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Confessions Of A Prostitute #3: The Irish Domination Orgasm

Who says you can't enjoy your job? I used to think an orgasm was too much to ask from a client. Then I met a 6'5 dominant Irishman...

3 CandieBbee

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Working Wounded

Hate your job? At least you don't have to put up with bullies, maggots and corpses. Matt Weiner meets Britain’s unluckiest workers

0 Matt Weiner

A Barman's Guide To Getting Served First

You're a a sweaty man into stamp collecting. Follow my tips and I'll serve you before the buxom blonde who was there ages before you and is forcing her phone number on me...

15 Comments Carl Anka

The World Is Your Playground: How Being A Lazy, Unorganised Hero Is A Sport

Exercise is boring and sport is fun. Fact. So to stay active in this post Olympic world you need to turn everything...

2 Comments Sifaeli Tesha

Is This The Angriest Boss Of All-Time?

Morons, pricks, arseholes and idiots - this boss is one seriously angry honcho.

1 Comment Sabotage

Inadvertently Sexual Van Sign

You really have to ask what they were thinking...

Sabotage

Whimsical Fonts Should Never Be Used in the Work Place

When there's a simple message to get across, there's no need to complicate it with a ridiculous sign...

Sabotage

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Shop Tells Staff 'You Must Have Teeth To Continue Working Here'

No, this isn't an episode of South Park. It's a real shop in America...

Sabotage

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Weird Job Interviews #1: Sex, Drugs And Tile Merchants

What happens when weird job interviews get weirder at a tile merchants who delight in conducting a contrived routine in order to ask bizarre and ...

2 James Patchett

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5 Reasons Why Everyone Should Stop Moaning And Cheer Up

The news is depressing, the Tories are in power and the job market is up the swanny. But all is not lost, and here's why...

5 Chris Windle

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A Northerner's Guide To Living In London

From expenses to keeping up with the commute, being a Northerner in the capital can often be quite the struggle...

128 Jordan Waller

10 Weird Secret Santa Gifts

Taking the pain out of buying a stranger a present; here's a run down of the strangest gifts for your colleagues th...

3 Comments Amber Paradine

How Trade Unions Can Fix Britain (And What We Can Learn From The French)

Our economy is screwed, our jobs are pointless and our food is crap; you can't move in Britain without hearing what...

51 Comments Alexander Netherton

What the F*** is a Comfort Zone?

Taking you ‘outside your comfort zone’ is now such an over-used vocal emission it has become cultural carbon di...

1 Comment Brodie Smithers

Confessions Of A Cafe Owner, Part Three: Battling The Bread Man

I failed miserably in my quest to get my old mucker Dermot O'Leary to open the caff and, despite my hints, the miss...

1 Comment Julian Boffin

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Confessions Of A Cafe Owner, Part Two: Exploding Coffee Machine

After paying £2,500 for a coffee machine that might kill people, I'm compelled to build a snogging booth for teenagers and recharge my batteries by pretending I'm a Gladiator stuffing Demi Moore...

1 Julian Boffin

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Confessions Of A Cafe Owner, Part One: Lesbian Plumbers

When my missus and I decided to open a cafe in Leeds little did we realise the cast of characters who would enter our world. Introducing vinegar tits, Wakefield's premier electrician and 'The Chemist'...

2 Julian Boffin

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Confessions of a Newsagent

Ring! Ring! It's 7:00 A.M.! Move y'self to go again. Cold water in the face. Brings you back to this awful place. The Diary of a Shiftworker.

14 The PLC Insider

Economic Growth, Footballing Superiority and Beer: A Grudging Respect For The Germans

In 1902 Cecil Rhodes said ‘to be born an Englishman is to win first prize in God's lottery’. 111 years later th...

4 Comments Paul Knott

Ryanair, Michael O'Leary And The Cost Of A Heart Attack

It was recently revealed that Ryanair staff charged a man who had gone into cardiac arrest for a drink. But it's th...

4 Comments Gareth Dimelow

Horrible Bosses #3: The Indignity Of Being Sacked Without Getting Fired

What's worse than getting the boot? Not getting the boot. Confused? Well let this tale of pickle and cowardice enli...

3 Comments Joshua Burt

Horrible Bosses #1: The Yawning Mouth Of A Ginger Donkey

To celebrate the release of Horrible Bosses we’ve asked our Saboteurs to regale us of tales of wankers they’ve ...

9 Comments Robin Lee

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