Office

Recipe For Disaster

This just in: the new office break room resembles a youth hostel kitchen. Not that there’s anything wrong with that – I’ve got nothing against the backpacker experience – but there’s a time and a place for that, and I’d argue that it’s not in the head office of a high-end cookbook publishing house.   …

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Time for a Scoop!

I’m back, see! Can’t keep a good reporter down for long, even if I wasn’t so much ‘down’ as I was lying on a beach in Brisbane. Down in elevation, I guess, but I’m back in good old Melbourne town and on the trail of the biggest scoop of my career, see! That vigilante is …

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My Special One

One day, my special one will come. I’ve been told that it’s the way that all love goes: it’s perfect, pure, protected with a ring, and it’s going to be great. It hasn’t happened yet though, so for the time being I’m just sitting here in my office, wondering if any of my workmates…are the …

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Fun or Filler?

It’s easy to be sceptical of high-end office design in an age that’s seen giant slides between departments and tipis with LED campfires in lieu of meeting rooms having become standard fare in that department. It’s not that I’m against these types of flourishes; I just find it hard to believe they’re all they’re cracked …

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