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It's Crack Up Time at Work

Business / Bob Goldman /

Everyone knows you're heading for it. Everyone is waiting for it. But please, when it happens, no temper tantrums, no emotional fireworks. If you're going to crack up, please do it quietly.

Really, it's the thing to do.

Remember Quiet Quitting? That used to be a thing. Quiet Quitters did just enough work to keep from getting fired, content ...Read more

Sabbatical Now!

Business / Bob Goldman /

Did you hear about the employees who left for lunch and didn't come back to work for a year? They didn't get lost, and they didn't have amnesia. Nor were they lost in time and waiting for Tom Cruise to jump into a black hole and haul them back. No, these are people whose perks went way, way beyond two weeks of vacation and medical insurance ...Read more

Burned Up or Burned Out? The Choice is Yours

Business / Bob Goldman /

Time to take your temperature. When it comes to your job, are you burned up or burned out? These days, being burned up is weak tea. Anyone can grumble about their bad bosses and their worse career prospects. Today, the cool kids have ratcheted up their dissatisfaction to DEFCON 1 total burnout. Really!

According to recent research from hrstacks...Read more

No Tax? No Snacks!

Business / Bob Goldman /

I agree with you, 100% Anybody who has a job today deserves mad respect, loud applause and free snacks galore. To some of us, it's an inalienable, if often inedible, human right.

A typical free snack selection offered by employers include pretzels, protein bars, rice cakes, teeny-tiny chocolate bars and free frizzy water to wash it all down ...Read more

The Sad End of Happy Hour

Business / Bob Goldman /

Is it too early to start missing the good old days at work? How about the good old hours?

It used to be that your employer provided this thing called "a desk" and you came into this place called an "office," where you stayed, working hard or, at least, looking like you were working hard, for eight hours.

And then -- drumroll, please -- came ...Read more

A.I. Can Take Your Job, But Can It Keep It?

Business / Bob Goldman /

I understand. It's not that you really love your job. It's just that you really, really, really don't want A.I. to take it.

And A.I. is coming for your job; no doubt about that. Some fancy-schmancy Artificial Intelligence super-app is working 24/7 so it can do what you do better, faster, cheaper and without all the aggravation that comes from ...Read more

Is This Spam Text Asking Me Out?

Business / Bob Goldman /

Last week, I got a text: Are you free tomorrow? Come to my house for dinner, and I will make your favorite seafood pasta.

I noticed this text languishing among 24 other unread texts (literally) and thought, who could this be? Who is inviting me over for dinner? And should I go? Maybe it will be fun! I DO like seafood pasta. In fact, I prepared ...Read more

Sex Break or Coffee Break -- The Choice is Yours

Business / Bob Goldman /

When your bosses said they wanted to increase production, they didn't mean this.

"This" is the strategy the big bosses in Russia have devised to reverse the country's population problem. In an attempt to boost a birth rate of 1.4 births per woman, a statistic that a Vladimir Putin spokesperson called "disastrous for the future of the nation," ...Read more

Casual NoDay

Business / Bob Goldman /

Emily Post won't help you.

The queen of etiquette, circa 1922, had little to say about what to wear in an office. Women, especially, were hopeless cases. "Mood, temper, jealousy ... are the chief flaws of women in business," she wrote. I'm afraid those flaws could also apply to men in business, one or two, anyway.

Of course, Emily Post lived...Read more

Your Resume: Polish It or Pulverize It?

Business / Bob Goldman /

You never forget your first resume. The excitement. The anticipation. The lies.

Sure, you were a front-line, business-development representative with bottom-line P&L responsibility, specializing in supply-chain management based on customer-satisfaction metrics. In other words, you were a carhop at Rude Rudy's Burger Babylon.

You never forget...Read more

Tell Your Inner Critic to Shut It

Business / Bob Goldman /

You really aren't any good at your job, and you're even worse at hiding it. The mistakes you make are going to sink your career and your company. That's why everyone at work hates you.

This isn't my opinion; it's yours.

The words come straight from your "inner critic" -- that persistent interloper who hides inside your brain, criticizing you...Read more

Workplace Drama Doesn't Work

Business / Bob Goldman /

Every office has them: drama queens and drama kings whose highly theatrical soliloquies about their trials and tribulations suggest that they believe, as Shakespeare wrote, "all the office's a stage."

Well, maybe Shakespeare didn't put it exactly like that, but Dr. Cynthia J. Young made the same point in a recent article in Forbes, "How to ...Read more

 

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