Month: December 2009
How to Make the Right Choices After Getting Fired
Firing is a traumatic experience. But you need to get your mind around it, gain control over your life and decide your next move.
How Not to Become an Overachiever
There’s something to be said about being too productive, which my WorkAwesome colleague, Mark Garrison, alluded to in a recent article, I’d say that the old adage “less is more” is the best practical approach to any workplace situation. We’ve all heard the quality usurps quantity time and tie again,Read More
Using Human Resources as Your Resource
This post gives suggestions on how employees can utilize an under-utilized Human Resources department to help them with their jobs.
Make the Right New Year’s Resolutions
Happy New Year! We drink, we stay up late, we kiss people, we watch fireworks, and revel as 2010 begins. I’m particularly excited about this New Year’s because I’m hoping that people will start saying the year as “twenty-ten” instead of “two thousand and ten.” Hey, I can dream. ButRead More
A Cube Farm Christmas Party Tale
Come sit by the warmth of the data center, co-workers. I have a Cube Farm Christmas tale to tell. I know those are the new wrinkle-free khakis you’re wearing and that you’ve been taking long lunches at hot yoga, so don’t act like you can’t sit cross-legged around my ergonomicallyRead More
Holidays: To Go or Not to Go on Vacation?
The holiday season is upon us! Actually, I believe the holiday season officially began around October 1, when the Halloween horror movies started airing continuously and the Christmas commercials were already peppered in among them. But in addition to the compulsory shopping, binge eating, and general stress, there is aRead More
Be a Slightly Less Disappointing Secret Santa
Whew. Glad you clicked here before continuing your online shopping at work. Take the forthcoming advice from someone who uses “being green” as an excuse for being too cheap/lazy/both to mail holiday cards this year. It’s been kind of a rough one considering Sarah Palin became an author and IRead More
The 12 Days of the Holiday Sales Season
On the the 12 days of the holiday sales season my mentor gave to me: These are the things I have to deal with while he’s taking vacation on a tropical island. I’m thinking of asking Santa for a strategically placed tropical depression.