If she's doing the work of a solicitor, charging for oine, and being responsible (together with her employer) for the results, then ... A lot of jobs have a lengthy training period and one doesn't ge… (View Post)

Both Mrs C and I have had occasion to be very grateful to Rachels in Accounts, or at least HR, when things were screwed up by line managers, or some other problem had supervened. Top tip: be nice to … (View Post)

My own limited but still real experience of contributing to, and then using, encyclopaedia type publications is that they are very heavily copy edited, wording and terminology standardised and compre… (View Post)

Surely some stewed prunes or some mouthwash would work better? (View Post)

Funny, though, that the logic doesn't extend to e.g. training bases, or even just doing the sweeping and cooking at RN Barrack Plymouth: a useful manpower reserve in 1938-39, easily compensated for i… (View Post)