You’ve worked your butt off the last few months trying to show your boss that you’re ready for a promotion, to no avail. You’ve gotten compliments from customers and you’ve surpassed your sales goals, but the promotion just isn’t happening.
You’re starting to think your boss must just hate the way you dress, or that she’s just got something against tattoos. Continue reading
In the new movie “Larry Crowne,” Tom Hanks plays a Navy veteran who is a manager at one of those big box stores where you can buy bananas, a TV, new tires for your car and fish tank all under one roof. Continue reading
It’s almost July, can you believe it? Well, it doesn’t matter if you do or not because it’s the truth. The summer is speeding by and we’re very near the midway point of 2011. Where does the time go?
Hopefully it goes to something fun, like a water park or cocktails by the pool. Continue reading
The economy is beginning to improve, and — for the first time in a few years — you may be thinking of leaving your employer for a new job.
In fact, according to a survey released last week by Mercer LLC, a global consulting company, 40 percent of employees ages 25 to 34, and 44 percent of those 24 and younger say they are currently considering a job change. Continue reading
There’s nothing like waking up on a Saturday morning and realizing that it’s the weekend, knowing that you have the entire day ahead of you to do whatever it is you feel like doing. Unless, of course, you wake up on Saturday morning and realize that you have to work all day. Continue reading
We’ve established that co-workers can be just plain weird. They can even be toxic. If you’ve been lucky, you might have also found that they can be great friends. Can they also save your life? Yes. (They can also kill you, as any quick online search will tell you, but let’s not go there.)
In a 2011 article published in “Health Psychology,” the American Psychological Association finds that some workers benefit from having a “peer support system” from their co-workers. Continue reading
