How to Look Busy at Work
If you're at work, you should be working. BWA HA HA just kidding. Apart from certain important personal matters that may have to be dealt…
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What to Say If You’re Caught Sleeping in Your Cubicle
As a sequel to yesterday's post on looking busy at work, here's a meme floating around the Web: what to say if you get caught…
What Your Manager Really Means to Say
From the Tubes -- a Management-to-English translator: That's very interesting. I disagree. I don't disagree. I disagree. I don't totally disagree with you. You may…
Humor: The Worst Interview Questions, and How to Answer Them
There are two reasons a recruiter will ask you a dumb, inappropriate or illegal interview question. One: he or she is "testing" you, by playing…
Humor: The Differences Between You and Your Boss
From the Internet, with some additions of my own: When you take a long time, you're slow. When your boss takes a long time, he's…
Humor: Three Ways to Fire an Employee
With tens of thousands of people being laid off each month, it's quite inappropriate to be posting humorous posts about getting fired. But who cares?…
Interviewees From Hell
Circulating on the Internet -- some supposedly-true "interviewees from Hell:" 1. Said he was so well-qualified that if he didn't get the job, it would…
Humor: The Current Financial Crisis Predicted
It appears that 40 years ago, the British comedy troupe Monty Python predicted the current global economic meltdown -- and how those who still had…
Humor: The Honest Job Application
Since I'm always going on about honesty, here's a humorous Internet meme I found: the Honest Job Application: NAME: [Redacted] DESIRED POSITION: Reclining. Ha Ha.…
Even More Heinous Business Jargon
It's time to go back to the well, and complain about business jargon. There is nothing wrong with cliches or overused phrases-- unless you are…