Why is it that politicians like to cite family as their main reason for quitting a job? Karl Rove is the latest. In an interview with Wall Street Journal editorial page editor Paul Gigot (bolds mine),
“I just think it’s time,” Mr. Rove said in the interview. “There’s always something that can keep you here, and as much as I’d like to be
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So many of you have weighed in so hilariously about the most annoying workplace habits that I feel compelled to expand with another: the increasingly popular e-mail signature. They began as simple text appended to the bottom of the e-mail, typically stating the sender’s pertinent work-related information (title, address, fax). Then they …
A buddy of mine recently asked to have his cubicle reassigned because the woman next to him was a loud phone talker. You know the type: they speak at normal human decibels in real life, but when they get on the phone, they can’t help but shout. Sometimes I worry I’m slightly in that camp; I blame mild hearing loss due to living with a …
…is the advice captured in the title of a book on my reading pile. It’s by Judith Bowman, and it outlines what she calls her “New Rules of Business Etiquette.” I picked it up this morning only because donuts are on my mind, and the cover has this picture of a sugary circle of goodness with a big ol’ bite taken out of it.
Donuts are on …
Today is national underwear day. I know this because, while crossing 43rd Street on Broadway, I was nearly mowed down by a 6-foot-tall Adonis wearing nothing but painted-on red briefs. In his wake came about a dozen other model types clad in all manner of colorful undies.
And there on the island where Broadway and Seventh Avenue …
…or at least it does me. When I’m overwhelmed by deadlines, I say and do some dumb things. I alternately babble or go mute at meetings, I snap at my husband when he calls, and I barely suppress murderous feelings toward tourists who block my path in Times Square. Even my body becomes unintelligent, refusing to digest food or succumb to …
Some weird news on the salary front for working women (thanks to Karen Tumulty of Swampland for the poke). The New York Times reports on new Census data today that shows young women in urban areas seem to be outearning their boy counterparts.
The analysis was prepared by Andrew A. Beveridge, a demographer at Queens College, who first
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Like a lot of people I know, I maintain an increasingly sprawling presence online. Over the years I’ve owned and discarded numerous e-mail addresses; I now have one for personal mail, another for work. I’ve got a personal web site. There’s my blog on my employer’s site, and my poorly frequented blog on my own. People can connect to me on …
As if pregnant women don’t have enough on their minds, what with the nausea and the genetic testing and the elephant ankles. If you’re interviewing while pregnant, is it wise to tell prospective employers of your impending change of family status? If so, when? How?
This came up recently over lunch with a friend, whose partner is …
…because I’m married. But I did have this running fantasy about interviewing Ichiro Suzuki for a story, during which he would fall madly in love and propose. I would of course have to quit the noble calling of journalism to manage his vast fortune and to raise our many little Ichiros. We would be the Posh and Becks of Japan. Maybe I’d …
I checked out a new web site called YourOnRamp.com. It’s flawed, but of potential use to women who have left the workforce and are attempting a comeback. I say women because the site is clearly targeted to moms, despite the fact that more and more men are making similar choices. Their loss: gentlemen readers, perhaps a market …
I don’t have a bad boss right now, but if I did, I sure as heck wouldn’t blog about it on my employer’s web site. I could, however–insert image of me with my pinkie at my mouth–crab about him or her anonymously on the AFL-CIO Bad Boss web contest. Although from the first entry I read, already I can tell I can’t beat these stories:
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