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, ...

Employment Digest has this amusing post on language-challenged cover letters, excerpted from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  According to the article, these are statements from actual cover letters, which, unfortunately, were actually read:  “As indicted, I have over five years of analyzing investments.”  “I received a plague ...

[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 ...