If you’re like many Americans, you’re back at your desk this week after a totally relaxing long weekend of last-minute gift-buying and spastic present-wrapping and uncontrolled gingerbread-gorging. You’re as glazed as a 10 lb. ham. It’s all you can do to get through a few days of paper-pushing until–hallelujah!–the compulsory …
How Do You Regift a Fighting Fish?
On Dec. 15, I wrote about a marketing exec who had received donations to charity in her name from vendors in lieu of the traditional holiday popcorn bucket. One brand new company in Phoenix called David and Sam PR had even decided to make it their thing, offering to stuff clients’ stockings with either a) fruitcake or b) charitable …
Questioning the Wage Gap
In response to my posting about the wage gap between men and women, my friend Gerry writes:
I’ve always been suspicious of the stat that women earn 77 cents on the dollar for performing the same job as a male colleague. Why? Because if there’s one thing we know about corporate America is that it loves to pay less and get more. Just like
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Free Post-Christmas Job Advice
Quick note: Challenger, Gray & Christmas, the Chicago-based outplacement agency, is offering free call-in job advice on the days following Christmas. The hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST. Call 312-332-5790.
Ladies, Let’s Gun for That Eight-Figure Salary
So I opened the WSJ online this morning and nearly spat out my decaf:
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. paid its chairman and chief executive, Lloyd Blankfein, about $54 million for 2006, a record for Wall Street bosses who are harvesting their share of bull-market bounty.
Say what? Fifty-four million? Can that be right? According to the …
What Do Gen Y Job Seekers Want?
That’s a question I’ve seen posed a lot lately online. As college seniors knock off their midterms and begin thinking in earnest about life A.C. (after college), the tight labor market is forcing employers and recruiters to ask themselves how best to attract the top talent.
Here’s one answer: a recent survey by recruiters Hudson found …
Holiday extravagance at Samsung
Okay, so I said I wasn’t going to be posting much. But this is too good not to share:
I got a DHL Express Letter the other day sent straight from “Samsung Main Building” in Seoul. What could be so important that the Korean electronics giant would spend $30 or $40 to get to me? (According to the DHL website, it would cost me $44.10 to send …
Welcome to Harvard’s Economics Ph.D. Program! Now Watch This Boring Video
In an earnest attempt to join the 21st century, two professors in Harvard’s economics department created a video welcoming potential students to its program. The result: brilliant, if unintentional, comedy for the masses, courtesy of YouTube.
Professors John Campbell and Ed Glaeser sit shoulder to shoulder before a wood-paneled wall. …
Work slowdown at the Curious Capitalist
I haven’t been posting much lately, and won’t post much (if at all) over the next few weeks because I’m taking some time off to finally really and truly finish the book I’ve been working on for the past few years.
The book is tentatively titled The Myth of the Rational Investor, and it grew out of an article I wrote for Fortune‘s annual …
Donate My Fruitcake to Charity
My friend Jessica Kutash, a marketing exec at a consumer products company, writes:
Several vendors with whom I do business have recently sent me my token ‘thanks for doing business with us’ holiday/end-of-year gifts. Normally these gifts are trinkets or candy. I quite like trinkets and candy. This year, however, I am seeing a new kind
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When Internships Are the Stuff of Reality Shows
I work in a field so competitive that few would consider me weird for having slogged through four internships before graduation. All involved little or no pay, soul-deadening work, and absolutely not one iota of glamour.
So you could’ve knocked me over with a feather when I learned today that one of my lame internships is going to be a …
Boomers: Put Off Those Hammock Dreams
Ah, retirement. For the 76 million people born between 1946 and 1964, those golden years of sipping Coronas by the pool don’t seem so far away. With the first wave hitting 60, baby boomers are only five years away from sailing off into the land of shuffleboard and bingo.
Not so fast, says a new study. Fully half of boomers are nowhere …