Your Work Email Is NOT Yours!

Tips for your work email - it is not YOURS.

It can be tempting and easy to reply to anything using your work email.  Common sense indicates to take a deep breath and reflect before you run off at the finger!

While far from resolved, the key points from the current [ September 2017] Channel Seven and Starr cases is that all employees should follow some simple guidelines:

• Have a work email and a personal email — and keep them separate.
• Use your personal email for private communication.
• Don't use personal email for work-related issues — this is something Hillary Clinton and currently Jared Kushner have been reflecting on.
• Don't use work email for personal communication as your employer has the right to check your work emails.
• Rule of thumb — if you wouldn't say it in the middle of the office, don't say it on social media or any other e-communication. It is there forever and you don't know how it will be interpreted.

This is the central tenet in the article written by Peter Holland, an associate professor at Monash Business School in the article that appeared on the ABC web site today.

Sounds like good advice, but as a few comments below the article allude, the work / personal space is less clear in today's world. 

For the full article - visit:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-09-27/what-not-to-say-on-your-work-email/8990380

Lots of sensible and considered advice in today's connected world.

Vegemite - NOW owned by Australian Company

Vegemite back in Australian ownership

Bega Cheese has now finalised its takeover of the Vegemite brand on 6 July 2017, after a cyber attack stalled the deal.

In a deal worth $460 million, Bega has acquired food giant Mondelez International’s Australian grocery and cheese business, which includes the Vegemite brand, as well as others such as ZoOSh salad dressings and beef extract Bonox.

The acquisition includes the brands’ manufacturing facilities.

Bega Cheese executive chairman Barry Irvin has said the Vegemite brand will continue to focus on local growth, however there are also plans to expand to the Asian market.

The deal has led to the creation of 200 jobs in Melbourne.

The takeover was initially stalled due to an outage of the Mondelez global IT network, which was attributed to a global cyber attack.

This is the first time in 90 years that the Vegemite brand has been in Australian ownership.

Vegemite is an Aussie icon......loved by many Australians and equally loathed by many non Australians.   Lets describe vegemite as an acquired taste!

Hardly Frog Weather

It is now mid June. Deep in the dry season with low humidity [ 20% or so], quite vigorous SE winds, no rain, cool to cold nights [ < 20C] - well, at least for the Darwin area........and more to come it seems.  A great burst of serious dry season weather.

Hardly seems any time since the complaint was about high humidity and plenty of rain.

Current conditions are NOT frog weather!  Needs to be enjoyed while it lasts though.

Frog Weather

The monsoon is visiting again.........or maybe it is best to consider it has been here since just after Christmas.

Only been a few days it has not rained since January 1, and many have been very very wet.  Several weekends have received more than 200mm over the 2 day weekend period........makes it difficult to get things done.

Our zoysia lawn has not been mown since a few dry days in mid-January, although the nature strip had a mow when the neighbour did their nature strip area last weekend - really just a light topping.......weather has been poor for grass growing, with rain and overcast conditions.

This morning the forecast was for continuing monsoonal conditions for a few days at least with the possibility of the conditions extending past the weekend.  At least it is not so hot and with cloud cover also reducing the baking from bright sunshine.

It is easily described as ideal frog weather.

Unfortunately, there has been a rise in cane toad numbers / sightings in our street, and we managed to somehow miss eliminating two of the blighters in the front yard over the past few weeks.  First ones actually seen in our front yard  since a year or so back.  Disappeared into the shrubbery and under the house.....out of reach of the weapons of mass destruction.

Vigilance has increased.

But of course the more pleasant green tree frog continues to vocalise in the neighbourhood.

Also had a small [ very small really] yellow tree snake noted in a palm over the past weekend.

Is it just frog weather?

Orchids in Flower

Those amazing orchids flowered again today.

How is it that all of them seem to flower on the same day.........every time?   Not just at our house where we have 4 or 5 large orchid plants on separate palm trees around the yard, but near neighbours as well.

All have different watering and nutrition regimes, even different light profiles, as some are well shaded, other are not.

A magnificent perfume aroma this morning as I walked into the garden.......and a huge flower display.

HOWEVER........flowers last but 1-2 days.

Needs to be enjoyed while there!

orchids in flower 1 Feb 2017