don’t let people idley doodle large phalluses / phalli / phallora with red whiteboard markers on your documents before you take them into a meeting. Especially if its a client meeting and the uninvited member is on the page with the diagram that you want to go through.

A colleague of mine can hide liquid in his throat very quickly. I can’t tell where it goes. It might go into his stomach. I watch as he challenges other colleagues to drinking races. He has been seen to be a very competitive person. This is why he allows himself to be challenged to speed

The exclamation mark. What does it mean really? “I think this sentence is a bit dull, but punctuation can save it!” Worse still – the double exclamation mark. It’s for Fisher-Price sentences isn’t it? “No Timmy, stay away from that giant mongoose!!” “Aaarrghh!!!”