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Train fix may only work in Wonderland
Heckler RECENTLY, I noticed a positions vacant advertisement, in the Herald, for managers for NSW trains.
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Synergies in the new paradigm
Heckler THERE was a time when ''corporate culture'' was constrained to the corporate world, and did not impinge on my real life.
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It's policy guaranteed to cause frustration
Heckler WHAT is it with organisations that hide behind ''policy'' to make us poor punters jump through hoops, only to have that policy conveniently overlooked when one becomes insistent that one is not going...
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Whatever happened to service with a smile?
Heckler SO I walk into this well-known menswear store - but like a criminal, or an unfaithful husband returning to his wife and home with glaring fuchsia lipstick on his white collar.
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Looking on the bright side through gritted teeth
Heckler I feel sorry for my dentist. He's a nice, quiet, thorough kind of guy and personally, I wouldn't want me as a patient.
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The toddler plague: how to combat it
Heckler DEAR people of Australia, I have some distressing news: mothers of small children are allowed, by law, to venture into the public sphere. Of course, toddlers in parks are acceptable.
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Here we go again - what a waste it is
Heckler I'VE had it. My blood pressure is rising, my teeth are clenching, I can't take it any more. I'm sick of waste. In every form, wherever it occurs, and we are all responsible.
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An omnibus fenestration conundrum
Heckler There is a small sign printed on the exterior of the driver's side of every NSW State Transit Authority bus: ''Do Not Enter Bus Through Window''. The window in question is more than 1.
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It borders on racism
Heckler It is perhaps our nation's most effective method of border protection. Quick and infinitely more cost effective than detaining and deporting ''unwanted'' people: just make them feel so unwanted that...
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Sweet treat mean streets
Heckler Why is it that strangers feel that they can give my 18-month-old child lollies? At a restaurant recently, halfway through our meal a waiter walked up and handed my 18-month-old a chewy sweet.
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Organic food tough? Try new organic metal
Heckler When I began to learn about chemistry as a boy at school, I was introduced to the world of the organic and the inorganic.
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We are too quick to label children
Heckler BACK in the last century when I was teaching there was a favourite staff room story of the student teacher who, on his first day, found an alphabetical class list with a number next to each student's...
