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	<title>The Shitopedia &#187; Working Life</title>
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	<description>Because even the best things in life can be shit</description>
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		<title>Management Speak Invades Local Government</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:25:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bindi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Age has produced a fantastic report on the use of management speak in government. We&#8217;re quoting them here but click on this link to see the original report: British bureaucrats have been warned: no more synergies, stakeholders or sustainable communities. The body that represents the country&#8217;s local authorities has told its members to stop [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customers and Clients (&#8220;Stakeholders&#8221;)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 16:47:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bindi</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only way to truly ruin a day is to have to deal with an irate customer or hair-splitting client. In one weekend job I had an indignant customer who complained because the assistants didn&#8217;t know how to give a refund in pounds to a customer who bought an item in France &#8211; before the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faxing</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Mar 2008 19:52:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>VaudPod</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Er, could you fax those signed documents over to me by the close of business?&#8221; &#8220;FAX &#8211; HELL NO &#8211; ITS NOT 1985!&#8221;]]></description>
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		<title>Networking</title>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/networking-67/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 23:07:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>don</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Networking&#8221; involves standing in a room with (ostensibly) like-minded individuals who share a common desire to shaft one another given the first opportunity but must first bandwaggon in order to get into the position of being a &#8220;shafter&#8221; as opposed to a &#8220;shaftee&#8221;. Networking is the activity through which this may be achieved. It normally [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pluto is Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Nov 2007 10:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AngryOldWoman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What has happened to Pluto? And I don’t mean the lovable dog belonging to Mickey Mouse. How many people does it take to demolish a planet? Only 424. Turned to a dwarf Pluto has been downgraded to the status of a dwarf planet and no longer counts as our ninth planet of the solar system. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bury the Bad News</title>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/bury-the-bad-news-63/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Nov 2007 11:00:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AngryOldWoman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Saturday&#8217;s Daily Telegraph (UK) buried a piece of news down page on page 9 (Saturday 3 November 2007) which is really worth a shout of Victor Meldrewness. Hidden beside the advertisements was this: &#8216;A Government minister who once called dangerous drivers &#8220;serial potential killers&#8221; was fined yesterday for using a mobile phone while driving. &#8216;Liam [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why doesn&#8217;t that surprise me?</title>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/why-doesnt-that-surprise-me-55/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2007 09:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AngryOldWoman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this day and age of transparency, when even the smallest parish councillor must declare an interest if an agenda item is in any way connected to him; and when professionals such as lawyers, accountants and the like must at all times be aware of any potential conflict of interest, why does this care-fulness not [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Busy People</title>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/busy-people-24/</link>
		<comments>http://www.shitopedia.org/busy-people-24/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2007 23:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>rudedog</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What is more annoying than people braying on about how busy they are? Not much. Living in a city can be a demanding experience. There is an underlying feeling of running out of time that&#8217;s driving everyone to scurry around cramming in as much &#8216;Warmest regards&#8217; crackberry sign-offs between crayfish and rocket sandwiches as is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recruitment Consultants</title>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/recruitment-consultants-15/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:36:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jumbo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not all recruitment consultants are shit, obviously, but many are. Perhaps the worst, and most widely demonstrated, trait of many recruitment consultants is their spectacular lack of any working knowledge regarding the role for which they are recruiting. I&#8217;m not talking about in-house Human Resource people here, I mean those consultants who work for agencies. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handing Out Business Cards (to Everyone)</title>
		<link>http://www.shitopedia.org/handing-out-business-cards-to-everyone-14/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Sep 2007 06:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jumbo</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At some point in most of our working and/or business lives, we have the joyless experience of attending a conference or other &#8220;networking&#8221; event. Networking, done properly, need not be a dirty word. The problem begins when people start firing business cards at you at the beginning of conversations which inevitably lead nowhere. Here&#8217;s an [...]]]></description>
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