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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…
America's Best & Worst Banks For 2010

Check out this post from our friends at Billshrinkcom: America's Best and Worst Banks for 2010. In it, they profile some of the good and the bad out there in the banking world. Click here for the original post.…
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…
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…
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…
20 Best Companies to Work For

Fortune Magazine and CNNmoney.com have released their most recent list of the Top 100 Best Companies to Work For. The data focuses on US. employees and includes part-time workers in addition to full-time workers. With…
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…
Six Benefits to Unemployment

When you're looking for work, it's easy to forget that having a job isn't always all its cracked up to be. On Recessionwire, a formerly unemployed writer recently posted a list of all the things she misses about…
Obese Employees Stereotyped as "Lazy"

Obese workers experience workplace discrimination in a number of ways, according to a new survey by British weight-loss group Slimming World. Employees struggling with their weight are often stereotyped as "lazy," hi…