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In my very limited experience of them, I never worked at the establishment in question of course.

Very broad brushes were used to diagnose issues "back in the day" so I wouldn't doubt she has been told that at some point in her life. From my ltd investigations into my own kids I'd say it's certainly an ADHD and/or anxiety trait though.

Perhaps you have replied to the wrong perosn?

I think part of the issue is that the person in question wasn’t very good at the job, which was compounded by being mildly evil and not very clever.

Thats as maybe, but Love the Sport and all that!

Tbf suffering is a company value

I thought it had been downgraded recently to something like 'tolerate mild inconvenience'?

As they say, the job of HR is to protect the company from its staff

That's entirely dependent on the management ethos of each individual company though. I've worked in several places where HR has been awesome and actively pushed back against management in favour of the employees.

The "job of HR is to protect the company from its staff" dogma is much the same as the "Listed companies are compelled to put increasing shareholder value first before anything else" trope which is just isn't true across the board (again, some companies are shits and do act like this).

(Note that I'm slightly biased as I married the HR director of a previous company.)

Note that I'm slightly biased as I married the HR director of a previous company.

Making sure the staff really do come first?

.... don't all the cool kids say .... " rep " ... ?

Rishi Sunak is 5’6

News to me

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5''6

Unfortunately I know the man next to him in this photo from university (Simon Clarke MP), and he is 6'6, so bound to make a person standing next to him look small.

‘Diddy’ or like a diddy? Don’t think Rishi needs any help!

Excellent work

Still taller than Thatcher.

What does this mean

And how does it relate to the spinal tap Stonehenge thing

He's 5'6 in the same way 5'6 people are 6'

5''6

5 Inches - 6 something

@mmccarthy is spot on

He's 5'6 in the same way 5'6 people are 6'

He's five foot six in the same way five foot six people are six foot.

Sorry, no, still nothing

I just remembered the dwarves in this spinal tap scene.

Sumo popped in an inches symbol where you'd expect a foot symbol (whether for humour's sake or not), much like the cause of the tiny Stonehenge prop in Spinal Tap:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=071cXxCNj5A

I mean, the Stonehenge joke is explicitly about a mix up of feet and inches, so I didn't think there was much room for interpretation there!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-us-canada-61192215

Bloody cyclists, robbing banks.

An interesting article about this from a while ago that had also been posted in the Long Reads thread, would reccomend it

https://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/February-2019/Bicycle-Bank-Robber-Tom-Justice/