Should you type 1 or 2 spaces after a full stop?
When my mum taught me how to touch type when I was 10, she used her big ol’ typewriter. Do you remember those bloody big things? You’d have to punch the keys really hard to type anything. It was so exhausting! Because I’m so old (ha!) I come from the school of typing...
5 quick beauty tips for work
Pick up some new tips for your beauty routine courtesy of some of my favourite beauty blogs 1. How to cover under eye dark circles It turns out that I’ve been applying concealer incorrectly for all these years. Madeline from The Daily Mark has put together...
Lunchtime Laugh: use dance as a time management tool
I’ve been chatting to a few readers (hi gang!) about what they’d like to see on Smarter Admins and there are have been some requests to see more light-heated stuff on the site. Which makes sense, really; everyone need a good laugh, right? I know I do! So...
What do you value about your job?
This week I celebrate ten years with my current employer. TEN YEARS! I’ve never lasted in a job this long. The longest I’d worked for the one company before this was five years. It’s funny how life pans out; when I started this job, I honestly thought I’d only survive...
Agony of Modern Manners – workplace etiquette #agonymanners
Tonight I watched a brilliant show on ABC1. It’s the latest in the “agony” interview series called The Agony of Modern Manners, and its tagline is “when it doesn’t cost anything to be nice”. Tonight’s episode was all about workplace etiquette. AND IT WAS...
