We’re Back! The New Site, A General FS Update & The Year Ahead

As you can see folks, we’re back at work and back online. We hope all our readers had a safe break and have some energy to get back into things for the new year. If you didn’t have a good break and you’re feeling at your wit’s end, make sure you talk to someone. Have a sick day, or, better yet, use one of the days allocated in your contract to “carer’s or personal leave”. These days can occasionally be overlooked by employees sorely in need of a day away from the office to collect themselves, so take one, or two, and speak with someone.

There are many people you can see and places you can visit for psychological/psychiatric help – just have a look around. It might sound trite coming from people like us with no formal training, but if you ever feel like you’ve “snapped” and are considering doing something drastic, confide in someone you trust or seek professional help. Attitudes toward mental health problems in the corporate workplace are slowly changing and you’re not alone.

Onto news about the site. We received the following feedback this morning:

Interesting and entertaining “tongue in cheek” articles that have me chuckling. I would suggest though that when “creating” your noval emails for emphasis on your stories you put valid to email addresses in fields to portray authenticity, especially if you are publishing a response also, when it is quite apparent the original email would have been bounced by the incorrect address Keep up the good work and maybe get even better at the fabrication of evidence.

For the avoidance of doubt, all our emails to firms are legitimate. We usually delete the addressee’s email address because, well, we think it’s best not to put an individual’s contact details in front of an audience of tens of thousands (we’ve received over 30,000 hits each weekday that we’ve been back on the air so far this year). But as always, we welcome all feedback, including that published above.

As you can see from the site itself, we’ve made some changes to generally make it more accessible. We received feedback from multiple readers that the old site was difficult to navigate. We hope the new look site at least partially overcomes this. Please let us know what you think needs improving. We will soon be adding a forum to the site where our readers will be able to freely add thoughts and info without our preliminary approval (as is the case with comments under articles we publish). We’re still tinkering with it and are looking for moderators. If you are one of the people who regularly comments on articles on the site, include an email address (preferably one which doesn’t contain your actual name) in the appropriate field when submitting your comments and we may contact you in the next few weeks asking for help.

In terms of the year ahead, we’re going to continue to strive to write relevant (and hopefully sometimes humourous) content. Rightly or wrongly, we now regard ourselves as an influential industry commentator and with that comes a level of responsibility. But we ask our readers not to take us too seriously. We’re not journalists. Although alot of work goes into compiling many of our posts, we will never have the same degree of fact-checking as a professional writer. Most of our posts are written very late at night and very often we are  appalled by spelling and grammatical errors we later read in our own work. So remember, this is a blog. Having said that, it is an evolving one. We intend this year to get more involvement from firms to better inform our work.

Happy gossiping everyone! Remember to share the really good stuff with us at news@firmspy.com