For about a year, I’ve been getting these odd red bumps on one of my legs.  At first I thought they must be a result of some illness, environmental toxin, or even pregnancy.  When they appear, they itch and hurt, and I’ve been known to complain profusely about them.    Only lately has it occurred to me that perhaps something ...

The HR Capitalist has a great post about the distrust of those working from home.  Are they really working, asks writer Kris Dunn, or are they simply squeezing 3 hours of work into an 8-hour day? More importantly, can a remote worker/telecommuter even go to lunch without having that ''gotcha'' feeling?  A recent Business Week online ...

Nearly all of my friends and colleagues in the career advice sphere regularly promote their media appearances and new projects on their blogs. I don’t do this.  I’ve never done this.  I get as many decent opportunities as the next guy, but I’ve always considered blog content to be fairly sacred – reserved for career and business topics ...

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 ...

Patricia Kitchen at Newsday writes about a new phenomenon known as “desk rage.”  Rising stress can lead to nervous tics and habits, often with the offender unaware, says Zachary Meyer, senior vice president with Ceridian LifeWorks, a Minneapolis-based employee assistance program provider.   At a conference three weeks ago in Florida, ...

Expense reports are a reality of employment in Corporate America that most people tend not to think too much about.  You spend money on behalf of your company and HR pays you back ASAP, right?    However, once you go to actually submit your first expense report for a new job, you may realize that reimbursement is more complicated ...

[ImageAttachment]   At Management Craft, my new friend Lisa talks about a recent argument she had with a friend over the concept of the liquid lunch.  Lisa says that right or wrong aside, she doesn’t know why anyone would want to dull their senses and reduce their effectiveness by consuming alcohol at lunch.  She suggests ...

[ImageAttachment]A recent Forbes article claims that the pictures, mementos and even the junk piled in a corner of your office or cube tell others a lot about you.  According to Samuel D. Gosling, a professor of psychology at the University of Texas, Austin, and author of The Secret Language of Stuff (Basic Books), some items are ...

[ImageAttachment] A few weeks ago, I posted about the job-related perils of MySpace on my Amazon blog.  Since then, I've discovered another cool Web site that I feel obligated to warn you about.  It's called I Work With Fools, and the point is to share stories related to the inevitable frustrations we all experience with our ...

[ImageAttachment]   It doesn’t add up.  The workday has been roughly the same length of time – eight hours – since the early part of this century.  Today, though, we have access to a variety of technological advances designed to increase our productivity, from fancy schmancy office software to search engines that supply a ...