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When you finally get to sit on panels and surprise ‘the elders’ by ‘being so articulate for someone so young’.

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When the ‘culture and climate’ findings come back from review and all you get is an existential crisis t-shirt

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When you actually have stuff to highlight on your donor report

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When all junior staff move up and away, but you keep meeting and working on projects together under ‘synergies’. 

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Ah, the liberating feeling of moving forward 

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When you can’t anymore

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When your boss gives you a handwritten draft agenda and your task is to type it on a computer

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When spending is not one of your supervisor’s concerns but project money is getting low.

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When due to a lack of  possibilities for career progression all junior staff start looking elsewhere

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When people speaking up against mobbing suddenly disappear from your workplace.

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When your boss needs you to draft a monitoring report of your project’s outcomes covering all results produced during the last 11 months (time to complete:one working day).

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Monitoring report:  The  x programme “executed some roundtables”. 

What I read:”We stood those bloody roundtables against a wall and shot them mercilessly.” 

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When you’re asked to revisit a long abandoned project concept.

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When you bring up the issue of business cards for junior staff that go on missions to your boss

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When after spending 12 hours implementing an activity and dealing with all sorts of requests- and just before returning to your room to rest for 20 minutes before the wash-up meeting-this happens: “Can you print these 40 pages for me please? I didn’t print them myself, can you do it? Please? I only have my tablet with me. Can you find a printer and do it please? Please, please, please?”

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When an intern comes for an interview and they’re completely normal for a change! They can hold a conversation! They don’t talk BS!

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When the main task of the co-organisers is to send out invitations but they just don’t.