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How to: Tell a subordinate to bugger off
If you’re a professional manager in a professional environment, swearing at subordinates is probably something you’ve rarely done or never done. But, you’re human like the rest of the team. You’re not a robot. You eat, sleep, fart and piss like the best of them. Yet, somehow, the general population of your team thinks you… Read more
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Sentence of Suspense: The getaway
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year: I ran like I’d never ran before, my legs were like jelly and my heart thumped rapidly inside my rib cage while I dodged the gun shots and leapt across the railway track, the sound of the train thundering past with it’s honking horn was deafening and… Read more
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Sentence Of Suspense: Plummeting
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year: I’d never flown before and I wished I’d kept it that way, I couldn’t hear myself think as the screams inside the cabin and the deafening roar of the failed 777’s engines filled what little air we had, all I could do was squeeze my wife’s hand… Read more
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Ten Sentence Fiction: The Vacancy
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year: Harold squinted out of the windscreen while hunched over the steering wheel. The window wipers whipped back and fourth, hopelessy battling at the monsoon that fell from the night sky. He stopped the car outside the hotel. It was a dreary building, 3 stories built of red… Read more
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Ten Sentence Fiction: Ghost hostage
Originally posted on Store Manager of the Year: The house was dark and damp and rotting to the core. Woodworm had set in almost everywhere meaning wherever you happened to stand would almost certainly result in your foot disappearing through the floorboards. Victorian furniture lay unused, inches thick in dust and tangled in cobwebs. Ryan stirred… Read more
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