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Some weeks just don’t work out like you planned when you arrived to work on Monday morning, bright-eyed and coffee-breathed. We’ve all been there before, begging for Friday as if it offered you salvation from the horror your week has been. But why not end this rough week on a positive note? Here are a couple things to do Friday afternoon to make for a more carefree weekend and a more productive Monday morning. More
Listen, we’ve all been there. You knew it was a school night, that you had work the next morning. You knew there was a presentation to give today and clients to meet. You had a million reasons why you should’ve crawled in to bed at 11pm and gotten at least six hours sleep before work today. But whether it was a birthday celebration, an old friend you hadn’t seen in years, or you simply needed to let lose, you didn’t listen to reason last night. You stayed up late and now you get to pay the price.
Going to work exhausted is so much worse than hitting your 8am Macroeconomics with sleep under your eyes. For one thing, you can’t wear sweatpants. For another, college classes are filled with tired classmates. At work, you might not have much company in the “up all night” caucus. So what do you do? More
Being invited on a business trip with your boss is a great opportunity: You get one-on-one time with a higher-up, the chance to learn from her, and to prove your mettle on the road. But that road can be full of pot-holes, too. Business travel includes all kinds of etiquette quandaries that never come up in the office. Should you eat every meal with your travel companion? What if she drinks too much? How do you avoid awkwardness if you’re sharing a hotel room? I asked several experts for their input on traveling with your boss. More
Perpetually arriving late to work is one of the surest ways to guarantee you won’t advance. It’s so unprofessional, it practically screams either “I’m totally unorganized” or “I don’t care about my job.” Even tardiness when it comes to meetings can hold you back at work: In a survey of hiring managers conducted by LinkedIn last year, 65% listed showing up late for meetings as a pet peeve. That’s why we liked SavvySugar’s recent list of reasons you’re late and how to avoid them. Here they are — along with a few of our own. More
You’re a savvy professional who knows how to conduct herself at an office holiday party by now. (If not, check out the Grindstone’s advice before it’s too late!) But not everyone is so wise, and thank goodness for that. After all, if everyone at your office maintained their dignity during holiday parties, we never would have heard from you about their hilarious, drunken antics. Enjoy these stories of fondling, flirting, and good old-fashioned falling down. More
In 2011, most working adults know they shouldn’t put their wild party photos on Facebook, and if they do (but please don’t) they should put them on the highest privacy settings. But that’s not the only pitfall to broadcasting your life on social media. Diane Gayeski, dean of the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College, and an expert in social media and corporate communications, is frequently “friended” by former students on Facebook. “What I too often see is comments like, ‘Oh, I can’t stand work today’ or ‘I can’t wait ‘til the weekend, this job sucks,’” she told me. If that doesn’t sound too egregious to you, read on. More
“In the regular world, Halloween is when children dress up in costumes and beg for candy. In Girl World, Halloween is the one night a year when a girl can dress like a total slut and no other girls can say anything about it.”
That line is of course from the brilliant piece of cinema that is Mean Girls. Yes, the film is about teenage girls but dressing up like a slut on Halloween is not just something teenage girls do. If teenage girls can be criticized for wearing lingerie with animal ears and claiming they are cute furry animals than other women can be blamed for taking careers like school teacher and Starbucks barista and making them absolutely scandalous. I get the making certain professions like Hooters waitress or shepherdess sexy but tax attorney? Come on. Leave these professions alone. Here are a few jobs that should never be made into Halloween costumes. Unfortunately for some of them, we are too late. More
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Alright, I hate to put you all on the spot here, but who can name a current head coach for the NFL? What about a quarterback? Aside from Gisele’s husband. Maybe football isn’t your game. So whose playing in the World Series? Still nothing? Don’t worry. I’m here to help. More
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It’s October which means Halloween is right around the corner. The extra candy and the fall leaves are great but what about Halloween costumes in the office? This is always a stressful dance as you want to show that you have some holiday spirit but you don’t want to actually put much effort into a costume because this could detract from your work. At the same time though Halloween costumes are the perfect time to show everyone that you are way more clever than them. Here are some costume ideas that you can put together in less than an hour but shows everyone that you are intelligently superior to them. More
In business, decisions often are made based more on chemistry than on objective performance measurements. Malcolm Gladwell , author of The Tipping Point and Blink, has written a lot about the rapid cognition our minds experience when making decisions quickly, especially those based on first impressions made in the “blink” of an eye. He has used the example that in the 1980s, classical music was an all-male domain. The change came only after performers began auditioning from behind a screen, where the judges could hear but not see who was playing. It would have been impossible to convince the maestro that he was biased against female performers. Snap judgments are most dangerous, Gladwell argued, when the decision-maker is removed from feedback and hands-on experience that shapes the subconscious mind. More
Instead of expressing your youth through fashion and social choices, use your youth as a reason why you are very good at technology: you will volunteer yourself to manage the Twitter account. When someone over thirty-five says, “What’s Reddit?”, you have the answer. I don’t care if you don’t like technology; the assumption that young people are better at these things is the main competitive advantage to being young. I mean, sure, young people are also, in general, more up on the latest style pop culture – that’s you and fifty million other girls. You can’t build a competitive advantage out of that.
There are enough prejudices against young people; you have to use the only prejudice in favor of them. You are not youthful, so much as a grown-ass woman who is also well-known as a valuable consultant on youth matters. More
