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6 crucial tips before inviting people in on work video calls. What’s behind you?

May 7, 2020 marvinmidlife Redundancy, Interviews, Work

Work video calls can be great, but they also allow all sorts of people a peek inside your house. Be careful what’s in the background if you don’t want them to look at you in a different way in the future.

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Ask Marvin

I hate PowerPoint with a passion. What can I do?

November 12, 2019 Aunt Marvin Ask Marvin

am rubbish at Powerpoint. My slides always have clashing colours or boxes that don’t align, and look like a ten year old has done them compared to other people’s.

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dull work meeting

A brilliant excuse. Is daydreaming in dull meetings part of evolutionary make-up?

November 7, 2019 marvinmidlife Redundancy, Interviews, Work

Office meetings can be dull, but are a necessary part of work life even if half the room is daydreaming or messaging their friends. It’s an evolutionary thing.

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Feature: Hip Replacement

hip replacement story starting with arthritis
A hip replacement story, from initial twinge to running around post op.

Working lives

  • Loose women What does Daddy do all day? Getting traumatised by Loose Women isn’t all fun.
  • Redundant when dotcom bubble bursts Devastatingly made redundant and left with just a biro and a book. How?
  • Resigning from work Think you’re indispensable? Resigning from work might surprise you…

Most Liked Posts

  • 12 months after - a total hip replacement recovery story....
  • Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks...
  • 18 months after my hip replacement and some bad habits...
  • Hip replacement recovery days 6 to 21. Coming on in...

Health, Fitness and Hips

  • 18 months after my hip replacement 18 months after my hip replacement and some bad habits need to be broken
  • Low fat or middle-age spread Middle-age spread is not low fat margarine, but do people find it as tasty?
  • Blueberry muffin Great news! Blueberry Muffin Day is getting closer.
  • Make yourself happy, do it for Don Agonising over how to be happy? Don’t do it for you. Do it for Don.

Most Liked Posts

  • 12 months after - a total hip replacement recovery story....
  • Total hip replacement recovery story. Painfully limping along in weeks...
  • 18 months after my hip replacement and some bad habits...
  • Hip replacement recovery days 6 to 21. Coming on in...

Ask Marvin Answered…

  • Father Christmas is fat, grey and old. I’m exactly the same, and yet no one wants me in their house at Christmas. What can I do?
    Aunt Marvin
  • My work suit no longer fits, and my birthday suit isn’t what it was. What can I do before I return to the office?
    Aunt Marvin
  • I have been offered a promotion at work but it could mean sacrificing my friends. Should I take it?
    Aunt Marvin

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midlife issues

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In Other (Largely Fake) News

  • Donald Trump face mask Donald Trump’s face mask refuses to stay on after Covid scare
    October 9, 2020
  • Dentist's chair Man trying to recreate Gascgoine’s “dentist’s chair” celebration ends up having root canal surgery
    July 26, 2021
  • Sticky menus stop coronavirus Pubs may be declared safe as sticky menus and tables stop spread of Covid
    September 21, 2020

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