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How To Get Out of Being Late for Work

The Los Angeles Times recently published a fun list of ten excuses to tell your boss when you're late for work. The list: Car problems. A classic. Be prepared to name a specific problem and how you managed to eventu…
5 Ideas for Boosting Productivity

Recessionwire has a great list up featuring ways to increase your productivity at work. Traditionally, this is useful to help you finish your assignments, impress your boss, and perhaps assuage your guilt for not work…
Bite-sized Promotion: The Twitter Resume

Up for a challenge? Try describing your strengths and accomplishments in 140 characters or less. It's called a Twitter resume, a 21st-century version of the Elevator Pitch, the age-old technique of selling yourself…
How Important is Your Workspace?

The company I work for is about to switch offices. We're only moving, I don't know, several hundred feet in the same building, but this is to a larger space where we'll each be able to have our own personal work area…
Would You Pay For a Warm Bed?

Holiday Inn has officially declared war! ...on cold sheets, that is. For a fee, Holiday Inn will ensure that your bed is warm. How will they do this, though? The story at Fox News explains a little more: If requeste…
Dollarish Poll: Your First Job

Hello Dollarish readers! It's that time of week again, where we bother you with a new question so we can report the answers later on in the week. Everyone has to start working sometime, it's just a matter of when an…
Dollarish Digest: Shoppin' and Jobs

Another week bites the dust. Are you sticking to your financial resolutions? To keep you on track, check out our top five posts of last week, in case you missed them: Joys of the Cheapskate: Why I Don't Have Uggs or…
How To Deal With Annoying, Stupid, Smelly Coworkers

The New York Times has one of the best articles I've ever seen about how to deal with coworkers that annoy or distract you. This has always been a problem for me, because I'm not good with confrontation and seem to get…
Advice: Faking a College Degree

From one of our readers: I don't have a bachelor's degree. I might go back to school eventually, but that's not my current plan. Most of the jobs I apply for are borderline in terms of their need for college—I'm not t…
How Many Questions Should I Ask At Work?

Oops, there's one. But seriously, I just started a new job and I'm constantly finding myself with a dozen questions on the tip of my tongue. And it's not stupid stuff like "What does this button do...?" It's more li…