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Do you review your staffs performance - why bother
Most people think they do a good job, even if they don’t!
So if everyone thinks they are doing a good job what happens when you do a review of staffs performance?
The ones who are doing a good job just get told they are doing a good job, which is what they expected to be told anyway.
The ones who are doing a crap job expected to be told they are doing a good job, so they then feel demoralised. So over the next few weeks moral drops, people mope round and then some people resign.
People then feel they should divide into camps, the good review camp and the bad one. The bad camp feeling jealous of the good one.
Doug has never done reviews…..just shouts and sometimes buys pizza:)
More foreign car hire stuff we are doing
We recently launched the following:
Spanish language car hire: http://www.cochesya.es - alquiler de coche
French language car hire: http://www.locature.fr - location de voiture
Italian language car hire: http://www.autonoleggio1.it - autonoleggio
Dutch language car hire: http://www.autoverhuur1.nl - autoverhuur
Swedish language car hire: http://www.123biluthyrning.se - biluthyrning
Cheers
Doug
Can’t get a job - don’t worry
Herbert A. Millington Chair - Search Committee 412A Clarkson Hall, Whitson University College Hill, MA 34109 Dear Professor Millington, Thank you for your letter of March 16. After careful consideration, I regret to inform you that I am unable to accept your refusal to offer me an assistant professor position in your department. This year I have been particularly fortunate in receiving an unusually large number of rejection letters. With such a varied and promising field of candidates, it is impossible for me to accept all refusals. Despite Whitson's outstanding qualifications and previous experience in rejecting applicants, I find that your rejection does not meet my needs at this time. Therefore, I will assume the position of assistant professor in your department this August. I look forward to seeing you then. Best of luck in rejecting future applicants. Sincerely, Chris L. Jensen
Thanks
More car hire sites launched
A couple more European car hire sites launched this week:)
PORTUGAL: http://www.carrental.pt
POLAND: http://www.123wynajemaut.pl
In early days, but just launching as we go.
Doug
Win a 3 night break in Paris, France
We are giving a prize away, here is the competition from the Sunday Times today:
Sunday Times Where Was I? competition
The competition starts on Sunday and ends on Wednesday
Read the article below and answer the questions at the end of the text. Clues to the answers can be found within the text:
Drive west to the station and catch a train along the coast. Alight at a small town to visit its castle. That was the plan until I arrived in this village – birthplace, in 1887, of a poet who wrote under a pseudonym. He was killed in battle in 1917 – from the trenches, he submitted The Hero, a competition-winning poem. His gravestone records him as “the chief poet”; a film of his life was made in 1992.
Checking my map, I notice something I had quite forgotten: “Roman practice work”, two miles north-northeast. A touch north, “Roman fort”; adjacent to that, “Roman amphitheatre”; and, a tad beyond, “Roman road”. Roman history plus puzzle compiler equals diversion, so I turn right. Rome, it seems, lies a splash away from a lake that, for sure, was not there during Roman times. I park, and soon lose myself in the tranquillity of the countryside. Once, it would have been far noisier, for the Roman activity here was military. The amphitheatre, therefore, was unusual in being part of it. I even find the site of the bathhouse and parade ground; and a motte, the foundation of a castle built some 950 years after the Romans left.
Much later, I am again station bound as I leave.
Nevertheless, I cannot help wondering what the Roman engineers would make of that lake; it once cooled a nuclear power station, entering service in 1965 (ceasing in 1991). The surrounding area was fashioned by a landscape architect (born 1901) – the first such to advise the Forestry Commission.
Six northwesterly miles later, I reach a second village, burial place of an archdeacon (born 1544). He translated the Book of Psalms that was added to a particular version of the Book of Common Prayer published in 1621. Meanwhile, I turn southwest. I am mindful, however, that on the river’s opposite bank is a station serving a preserved railway. Opened in 1836, and initially horse-drawn, the line closed 110 years later. It reopened in 1954. Oh: is that a corkscrew of steam I see pirouetting above the treetops? And is that a whistle I hear? No, I must drive on. I have a train to catch. And not that one.
The competition
1 What was the poet’s real name?
2 What is the name of the preserved railway?
Enter by clicking on the link above or by sending a postcard to Where Was I? June 22, 2008, PO Box 48795, London E98 1WY, by Wednesday. The winner will be announced next Sunday. Only one entry per person. Normal Times Newspapers rules apply. No correspondence will be entered into.
The prize: a luxurious three-night break in Paris as guests of Hôtel Warwick Champs-Elysées and Eurostar. The winners will stay for three nights, B&B, at the Warwick Champs-Elysées, which is within easy striking distance of the Jardin desTuileries, the Louvre and the shops of Rue St Honoré. The hotel’s restaurant, the “W”, serves innovative French cuisine. For more information, call 00 800 4634 4100 or visit www.warwickhotels.com.
The prize also includes return Eurostar rail travel, in Leisure Select class, from St Pancras, Ebbsfleet or Ashford. The fastest journey time between the two capitals is now just 2 hours 15 minutes. Return tickets start at £59 in standard class and £139 in Leisure Select. For more details, or to book a ticket, visit www.eurostar.com or call 0870 518 6186.
The prize must be taken before December 1, 2008, excluding September and public holidays, and is subject to availability.
Last week
LAST WEEK’S answers are TE Brown and Roget’s Thesaurus. G Yarwood of Flintshire wins a villa holiday in Mallorca, with Villa Select (01789 764909, www.villaselect.com), Monarch Airlines (www.monarch. co.uk) and Carrentals.co.uk.
CONDITIONS OF ENTRY
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If you are already a Times Online member, please ensure that you are logged in. If you are not logged in, then you will be required to enter your username and password before you can proceed through to the competition entry form. Click the “ENTER THIS WEEK’S COMPETITION” link above to proceed.
If you are not a member, and this is the first time you’ve entered the Where Was I? competition online, you will need to register your details with us. Online registration is free, should only take a few minutes to complete and you will not be required to register for future competitions. Click the “ENTER THE COMPETITION” link above to proceed.
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Paintballing competition
We are giving away some prizes:
So if you know anyone who wants a good day out, get them to fill this in.
Doug
We launch another site:)
This month we launched www.mns.co.uk which is basically a business news portal.
The boys are being very busy:)
Doug
Who is that picture
Well Doug that good looking bloke has followed everyone and put a picture on blog so as to give it an identity.
It’s a very serious picture to explain the nature of his blog
Doug
Our new stuff - Online dating
Looks like we have got into the online dating business.
A while ago we bought a web site:
Easy Find a Date Free Online Dating
I know it looks horrible, but we do like horrible sites. This one is being made pretty though:)
It is a useful site and gets many free signups per day, but we are making it better.
We sort of left it after just sticking some links into and forgot about it and had adsense on it. Well at the A4UAwards someone said why not stick some affiliate links onto it, so on Friday we added them for some areas we were weak in.
I have spent the weekend looking around and found quite a few white label sites and lots of affiliate deals. So I looked at our traffic and basically decided we would target the main UK traffic with links to people like:
- Match
- Dating Direct
- Loopy Love
- UK Dating
We will rotate the ads round and see who pays us the most per visitor and after haggling with them we will pick one to get all the traffic.
For the rest of the world traffic and all the niches like gay dating, asian dating, christian dating etc we are going to use:
as a starter. We will see how it work, but interesting stats to start with. Thats a nice affiliate link, but we are using them, hence have no issue in putting it up.
Now we have a designer and techies off to build the site to compete with plentoffish and build a great free site:)
Doug looking at a horrible dating site.
New design for this blog…
Seeing how i’ve managed to keep this blog posting up and after this post by Chris Garret, i’ve decided to get proper design for this blog. Anyone who knows me what a nightmare i am when it comes to getting down to the details, so getting a web design i will be happy with is no easy task.
But here’s the first draft from the guys from xyz company, I’m supposed to study it and make suggestions, but thought i would see what other people thought first.
Thoughts please???
Doug