I’m not late to the game on this one, I swear.  It’s just that I’ve been waiting.  Watching to see what Sarah Palin will do next.  Ever since her disastrous turn with Katie Couric, I’ve been anticipating her next public speaking snafu.  Why did I think she would make one?  Quite simply, because she admitted she didn’t know ...

On Newly Corporate, Jennifer Robinson has a great post for professional women on the vices and virtues of changing your name when you get married.  I’m glad someone else is giving advice on this, because I’ve hemmed and hawed about the issue since my wedding in 2004.    My husband wanted me to take his name, Shankman, but at the ...

I often talk about steering clear of talking politics in the workplace because you never know who you might offend.  This is especially relevant during a presidential election year, when everyone has an opinion and doesn’t hesitate to share it.  Kris Dunn over at the HR Capitalist has some useful tips on how to avoid an uncomfortable ...

Well, the gymnastics competitions that are my favorite part of the Olympic Games are over.   As usual, the events were dogged with controversy.  This year, it had mainly to do with the ages and scores of the Chinese gymnasts. In 1997, to counter the increasing trend towards younger and younger gymnasts, the International ...

At the gym, I was thumbing through a new issue of Time Magazine.  One of the articles was about college wait-listing.  According to Time, the high school class of 2008, 3.4 million strong, is the largest in American history.  As such, getting into a first choice college is a heck of a lot tougher if you had the misfortune of being ...

Just when you thought the fad of forwarding silly or inappropriate joke e-mails to colleagues had run its course, along comes YouTube.   Now don’t get me wrong:  I think YouTube is the greatest entertainment invention since Nintendo.  My favorite YouTube video is the Montgomery Flea Market commercial, which I must have watched 100 ...

Anita Bruzzese over at 45 Things has an interesting post on workplace romance.  While Anita does mention that 58 percent of us working folk have dated someone you work with and that she herself married someone she met on the job, it’s cool that she doesn’t spend the rest of the post chastising those who are currently in a relationship with a ...

Last weekend, my friend from Michigan was visiting us in Chicago.  She works in finance, which is still an industry made up predominantly of men, and she asked me what I thought about the role of traditional chivalry in the modern workplace.  My friend has men holding doors open for her, and allowing her to sit down first, all the time, ...

[ImageAttachment]   What is with all of these high-profile people shooting their mouths off?  First there was Mel Gibson, then Michael Richards, and now uber-publisher Judith Regan.  What do these three have in common?  They let their guards down in the heat of the moment, and are living to regret it big time as their racist ...

The Associated Press, via the New York Daily News, has reported that as of this Friday, U.S. companies will need to keep track of all the e-mails, instant messages and other electronic documents generated by their employees. The rules, approved by the Supreme Court, require companies and other entities involved in federal litigation to produce ...