Simon Said:

Every a number of week, our (now Australian) parent company would hold a Beer and Pizza event. It is an after work social to get people together. Free Beer and Pizza! First I got conned by the low alcohol beer. It was a Carlsberg but only got 0.5% alcohol. I thought it was a proper [...]

This year SOGS dinner took place on the 31-1-2010 at Sweet Mandarin in the Northern Quarter of Manchester. History of S.O.G.S = Salford Office Gambling Syndicate. It is not as serious as the word Gambling actually mean. During a time in the Salford Quays office, I started to run regular sweepstakes amongst my colleagues. It [...]

marchconsulting.co.uk I registered this domain as my silent protest about being gradually debrand at work. It is inevitable after the acquisition. As I am the last employee for March Consulting (2 acquisitions before the current one),  I feel very lucky to have spotted this domain became available. I have not done anything spiteful, it is [...]

Dodgy Swap > Dodgy Beef > Dodgy Drink > Dodgy Health > Dodgy Simon > Dodgy Night I swapped dinner choice with my big boss. So I had Soup then Steak instead Soup then Turkey. Anyway, not sure whether it was the drinks or the meal or the fact that I was full of cold. [...]

This is the first Office Christmas Party with our new colleagues from the parent company, the second one is this Friday just with ourselves and a few from the old company. The Fashion Gear Unfortunately I had a change of heart at the last minute, didn’t like the Boxfresh shirt I was going to wear. [...]

This post is dedicated to my good friend who just got fired because he writes a blog which has some very very small related stuff about work. The real reason is that his company is cutting cost and have targeted him. There is no doubt about it, this will get messy. The claim is very [...]

Employee-owned firm plans for “significant growth” as latest acquisition boosts sustainability & climate change skill base Simon: Climate Change Rules! 13-Oct-09 It is second-time lucky for Sinclair Knight Merz (SKM), the Australian professional services firm, which announced yesterday that it is in the midst of purchasing one of the best-known names in UK environmental consultancy, [...]

oh Why oh why oh why, company like to outsource services to a 3rd party. My company has sold our former IT support department. They sold the business for big bucks and outsource our IT services within the deal, win win situation. They get the business and contract we get the cash. But someone has [...]

One recent time, I was at a client site. An engineer said: “I thought the presentation you guys did was very good” And he went on, “I actually print good ones out and keep them in this pile.” He then said, “It is as good as the presentation given by March Consulting on Waste Minimisation [...]

You can only make money out of something if you can brand it. Branding is very important and makes perfect business sense. A product is not the same without a brand. This is also true for service. Have you not heard of priority service, gold service, silver service etc. These are branding. Even Credit Card [...]