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Eight Steps for Surviving
When your boss doesn’t like you, going to work every day can be a real drag. It happens, maybe it’s happening to you. You trained or studied to get a job and find yourself lucky enough to land the kind of position you can be happy
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Getting along with your boss and co-workers can make the difference between whether you look forward to going to work or you dread your job like the plague. Whether you are a new employee who is getting to know everyone or you have been on the job for a number
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What about playing a hilarious prank on your boss this April Fool’s Day? If you have a sporting boss with a good sense of humour, you may want to try this prank and have a great time at his expense. Otherwise, don’t try this.
The Scene
Imagine this. Your boss enters his
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Many workers spend the majority of their time in their work environment. However this does not mean you should become so comfortable with your work environment that you discuss topics that could be detrimental to your career. Often people become friendly with their co-workers to the pointwhere they share too
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A potentially dangerous practice involving the use of Skype in the business world is becoming more popular in the United States.
I state that this is a dangerous practice because Skype teleconferencing can expose more information about your company and workers than anyone in their right mind would authorize. I have
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For some reason that is beyond my scope of understanding, thousands of companies in the United States believe that exposing their workers to skits that are performed by management renders some kind of positive results. If I am called in to advise a company, and I find out that they
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My advice to every company in America right now is to make a move to get your employees to stop discussing the economy in the workplace as soon as possible.
No matter how your company is doing in the market right now, your company could be up for a significant
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With the job market being as shaky as it is today, many workers are looking for allies that might help them secure their current job, or might open a door to a job in the future. If you are a worker that is sailing in this boat of despair, look
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Earlier this month Representative George Miller, Senator Edward Kennedy, and Senator Tom Harkin sponsored and introduced the Employee Free Choice Act, which has taken on the now infamous name of “Card Check”, an allusion to the most controversial of its provisions. While the bill was
In Defense of the Employee Free
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If you have recently been laid off then you are, like millions of other Americans, back in the job market looking for a job. If a prospective employer is thinking about hiring you there is a good chance that they will do a background check. In fact somewhere
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