Thanks to everyone who entered the PPA From Hell challenge. We received 23 entries and they were genuinely hard to choose between. Parents storming staff rooms, villages without light for fifteen years, and a goat-feeding rota nobody warned you about. Choosing the top 3 was really difficult.

The winners are:

1. ifed.immanuel — for the sharpest observation of the month: "When there was work, I was part of the team. When there was food, 'Staff only.'"

2. Black01 — for turning a first day into comedy told by the clock, from 7:23 a.m. to "Ma… tomorrow."

3. gideon1 — for 4:47 p.m. "are you watching the time?" and 7:58 a.m. "corper, you are late."