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| One Mother, Preparing for Take-Off |
(Sun, 10 Jun 2007)
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| My first workplace column, in 1998, was about how single people got stuck at the office more often than those with kids and how they could defend their time. Now, my final column before I go on maternity leave for six months is about how parents decide whether to work and how they handle it after a child is born. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: One |
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| A Law Partner Pulls His Firm Down the Green Path |
(Sun, 03 Jun 2007)
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| Being a lawyer isn't really about exciting "Law and Order" courtroom drama. It's about paperwork. Lots of it. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: A |
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| Looking Out for the Caregivers |
(Sun, 27 May 2007)
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| Employers have been put on notice: They can't treat caregivers differently. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Looking |
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| It's the Boss Fooling You -- for Safety's Sake |
(Sun, 20 May 2007)
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James MacDougall, head of computer security for state agencies in South Carolina, has been phishing state employees.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: It's |
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| Adapting to Adoptions |
(Sun, 13 May 2007)
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| When Sheri Moreau adopted her first daughter from China in March 2004, she was able to cobble together eight weeks of paid and unpaid leave to travel to get her daughter and bond with her. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Adapting |
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| Office Awareness Can Head Off Abuse at Home |
(Sun, 06 May 2007)
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| Melissa began to take sick days from her job at State Farm several years ago because of her abusive husband. There were "a lot of late nights where I had gotten beat up and didn't want to go in front of everybody at work," she said. "I tried to leave a couple times at the beginning, but I had no family around here and not many friends. I didn't have resources, so I felt trapped." |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Office |
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| Her Pay Gap Begins Right After Graduation |
(Sun, 29 Apr 2007)
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| For years, women have outnumbered men on college campuses. Overall, they get better grades than men. And yet, just months after they toss their mortarboards into the air at college graduation, men start to pull ahead of women in pay. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Her |
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| When the Office Happy Hour Isn't |
(Sun, 22 Apr 2007)
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Who knew "happy hour" could be such a misnomer?
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: When |
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| Wisdom and a Helping Hand |
(Sun, 15 Apr 2007)
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| The interns are coming! The interns are coming! |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Wisdom |
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| Comings and Goings |
(Sun, 08 Apr 2007)
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| Clip and save this one, folks. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Comings |
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| Two-Way Empathy Thaws an Icy Response to Time Off |
(Sun, 01 Apr 2007)
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| Joe Levandos's father called him in early January to say his mother's cancer would probably take her life within a couple of weeks. Levandos promptly asked his boss for some leave so he could be with her before she died. It was granted, and off he went. He stayed off for about a month and a half, during which time she passed away. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Two-Way |
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| Employers' Little Dividend |
(Sun, 25 Mar 2007)
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Earlier this month it was Annys. Next is Cecilia. Then it's my turn. Karen comes after me, then Lori, in October.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
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| It Takes More Than Saying 'Pretty Please' |
(Sun, 18 Mar 2007)
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| Ever come out of a meeting wishing that you, too, could persuade people the way that silver-tongued co-worker of yours can? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: It |
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| Developing Boomerang Mothers |
(Sun, 11 Mar 2007)
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| Jennifer Allyn has a job at PricewaterhouseCoopers that didn't even exist until recently: director of gender retention and advancement. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Developing |
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| Caring for Dear Old Dad Gets a Little Easier |
(Sun, 04 Mar 2007)
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| Freddie Mac started offering backup child care to its employees in December 2001 to keep them at work and happy. This December, responding to changing demographics in its workforce, it extended that benefit to let employees care for their elderly relatives. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Caring |
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| Fashion Leads by a Nose |
(Sun, 25 Feb 2007)
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Like many readers in Washington's federal sector, one woman who wrote to me recently said she dresses to fit the part. "Nothing but Ann Taylor suits and sweater sets for me," she wrote in an online discussion. She's a budget analyst, so that wasn't much of a surprise.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
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| Should You Tell? |
(Sun, 18 Feb 2007)
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| If you have depression or some other mental illness, what do you do about work? Hope no one notices? Disclose your illness early on and trust that your boss will understand? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Should |
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| Significant Others at the Office |
(Sun, 11 Feb 2007)
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| When someone calls Julie Eyerman at work, Brad Mislow may be in the background, commenting on the conversation. And why not? They work together every day, and have for eight years, at a major advertising firm in New York. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Significant |
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| They Open More Doors for Women |
(Sun, 04 Feb 2007)
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| When PepsiCo announced Indra K. Nooyi would become chief executive in October, it made headline news. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
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| Not Cut From the Boss's Cloth |
(Sun, 28 Jan 2007)
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I recently received what I felt was a straightforward question in my online chat. I thought my advice was an easy solution and that would be the end of it:
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Author: Amy Joyce |
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| The Worst Mistake Is Not Telling the Boss |
(Sun, 21 Jan 2007)
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| Back in 2005, I spent a couple of weeks dragging myself through the detritus of hurricanes Katrina and Rita. It wasn't until I was safely home that I realized I had left the Post-issued laptop . . . somewhere. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
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| Managing the Needy Employee -- and Your Time |
(Sun, 14 Jan 2007)
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| Many managers face it, no matter the industry or management level: the problem of how to make sure that one high-maintenance employee does not take too much time away from other duties and other employees who also need attention. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Managing |
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| Persistence Can Help Rescue a Résumé That's Lost in the Ether |
(Sun, 07 Jan 2007)
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| If a résumé is sent to a company with no one to check it out, does anyone hear the job seeker scream? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Persistence |
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| Résumé Bloopers |
(Sun, 31 Dec 2006)
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We all have those job-seeker cringes. Tripping into a potential boss just as she extends her hand to shake. Calling an interviewer by the wrong name. Sending a résumé with the wrong telephone number.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Résumé |
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| Every Day Is Christmas |
(Sun, 24 Dec 2006)
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| Have you done your holiday duty already? Toys for needy children? Volunteering at the shelter? Checks for charities? It's that time of year, and most of us feel better when we know we've made someone's holiday just a little less lonely, hungry or deprived. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Every |
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| President, Or Decider- In-Chief? |
(Sun, 17 Dec 2006)
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| Chief something or other. Senior blah blah blah. Director for the whatever region. Vice president of lots of stuff. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: President, |
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| On the Job With HIV |
(Sun, 10 Dec 2006)
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| Two weeks after she started to work at Catholic Relief Services in 2004, Jennifer Munthali decided to tell her boss that she was HIV positive. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: On |
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| Caught the Flu, but No Sick Leave |
(Sun, 03 Dec 2006)
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Broken foot? Ate some bad leftover turkey? Caught the flu? Want a day off?
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Caught |
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| Shifting Risk, Responsibility |
(Sun, 26 Nov 2006)
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| For many workers trying to decide which health plan to choose, this year's open enrollment season comes down to two options: higher costs or higher risk. Rising costs are old news, but the higher risk is new, compliments of a growing trend to push more employees into "consumer-driven plans," in which employees assume more responsibility for their health-care budget. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Shifting |
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| It's All in a Day's Volunteer Effort |
(Sun, 19 Nov 2006)
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| Along with a matching 401(k), piano lessons on Fridays and health benefits, new employees at Forrester Research can get one paid workday a year to volunteer. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: It's |
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| No Holiday for Job Hunters |
(Sun, 12 Nov 2006)
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| We're about to enter the busy season: shopping, cooking, planning, preparing, partying. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: No |
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| Curing The Common Evaluation |
(Sun, 05 Nov 2006)
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At many organizations, performance appraisals are treated as they are in "Dilbert" or "The Office": "It's performance review day, company-wide," Pam, the office manager character in "The Office," said in an episode last year. "Last year, my performance review started with Michael asking me what my hopes and dreams were, and it ended with him telling me he could bench press 190 pounds."
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Curing |
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| Beyond Cognitive Disability Barriers |
(Sun, 29 Oct 2006)
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| When Kathryn Giordano, director of administration at Baker Botts LLP, suggested to Pat Berry that his daughter come work at his law firm for the summer, he shook his head in disbelief. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Beyond |
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| The Redskins Could Learn From Business |
(Sun, 22 Oct 2006)
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| It was a move with a ton of promise: The Redskins hired Al Saunders away from the Kansas City Chiefs to be the associate head coach. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
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| So Much for 'Personal' Habits |
(Sun, 15 Oct 2006)
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| Your employer probably hasn't bugged your apartment to determine if your television viewing is up to par. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: So |
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| Some 'News' Should Be Left at the Door |
(Sun, 08 Oct 2006)
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So how about this nasty scandal?
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Some |
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| Every Move You Make |
(Sun, 01 Oct 2006)
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| If you think you're being watched, you probably are. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Every |
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| For Gays, Some Doors Open Wider |
(Sun, 24 Sep 2006)
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| Ten years ago, companies barely acknowledged that they even had gay employees. But today, companies increasingly offer domestic-partner benefits, support gay pride events and actively recruit gay employees. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: For |
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| Kid-Friendly Policies Don't Help Singles |
(Sun, 17 Sep 2006)
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| If Barbara Rose could, she would love to have three to six months off from her full-time job as a critical-care nurse in San Diego to finish her doctoral dissertation. But since she never had children, and never intends to, she knows she won't get the same sort of leave many of her new-mom co-workers have received. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Kid-Friendly |
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| Fired Via E-Mail, And Other Tales Of Poor Exits |
(Sun, 10 Sep 2006)
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It wasn't the best public relations move the company ever made.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Fired |
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| The Employees' 2006 Bill of Slights |
(Sun, 03 Sep 2006)
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| No, tell us how you really feel. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: The |
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| Too Often, Family Leave Leaves Much To Be Desired |
(Sun, 27 Aug 2006)
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| People talk about "maternity leave": a break from work after having or adopting a baby. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Too |
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| Coursework for the Etiquette Prerequisite |
(Sun, 20 Aug 2006)
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| Put your name tag on your right shoulder. Ladies, don't let it hang on that lanyard. Think about where people have to look to see your name! |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Coursework |
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| Business Casual? Seriously. |
(Sun, 13 Aug 2006)
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Jason Young follows the same rule in work and dating: It's better to be overdressed than underdressed.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Business |
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| Her No. 1 Problem |
(Sun, 06 Aug 2006)
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| News flash: Women are severely underrepresented in top corporate leadership positions. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Her |
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| Raising the Raise Issue |
(Sun, 30 Jul 2006)
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| Sure, negotiating a salary when you're considering a new job is tough. But once you're at a job for a while and think you have earned a bump in pay, the conversation about a raise is nearly impossible. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Raising |
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| A Good Case of Nerves Beats Being Worried Sick |
(Sun, 23 Jul 2006)
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| My friends and I lean on one another to ease our worries, whether over dinner, e-mail or a weekend away. But no matter where we are or what we're doing, we worry. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: A |
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| Heads Butting |
(Sun, 16 Jul 2006)
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Say you've got a boss you really like and admire. She gets things done, helps your ideas rise to the top, is easy to talk to and listens to your proposals. Great for you, right?
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Heads |
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| 'Devil' Boss All Too Familiar |
(Sun, 09 Jul 2006)
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| She called her new assistant by the wrong name but didn't care. Her coffee had to be on her desk first thing -- hot -- or else. She didn't want to hear an excuse, she just wanted it done. No matter what "it" was. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: 'Devil' |
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| Fresh Out of College? First, Accept Help. |
(Sun, 02 Jul 2006)
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| Welcome to the world of work, new graduates. Sure, you probably had a few internships. Maybe a campus job for a little extra cash. But what do you really know about the workplace? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Fresh |
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| Vacation Deprivation |
(Sun, 25 Jun 2006)
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| Are you running off to the beach this year? Is your car packed with beach umbrellas, rusty beach chairs, a BlackBerry, laptop and several cellphones? Are you taking just one week instead of your allotted two? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Vacation |
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| More Fathers Figure on Family Time |
(Sun, 18 Jun 2006)
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It's Chris Caffrey's busy season. The 34-year-old soon-to-be partner at accounting firm Ernst & Young has lots of tasks to juggle. Oh, sure, there's work. But what really has him hopping these late spring days are his son's baseball games, his daughter's softball practices and events for his two younger children.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: More |
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| Taking It Home -- to Thieves |
(Sun, 11 Jun 2006)
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| As the public discovered that Social Security numbers and other personal information from 26.5 million retired and active U.S. military personnel were on a laptop stolen from the home of a Department of Veterans Affairs analyst last month, workers who were hoping to pitch their boss on a telecommuting option probably felt their hopes crash. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Taking |
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| Lucky Ties, Bad Suits |
(Sun, 04 Jun 2006)
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| We hear about it all the time, particularly during various sports playoff series. The hockey player who won't shave until the Stanley Cup is in hand. The baseball players who have their own rituals before they go up to bat. Football players saying their new jerseys jinxed their game. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Lucky |
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| Snagged by the Network |
(Sun, 28 May 2006)
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| The nonprofit group where Sadie Dingfelder works was looking for a new Web designer a few months ago. And so when she met an unemployed friend of a friend at a party who told her he had just that background, she thought she could help. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Snagged |
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| Job Connections Start as Social Connections |
(Sun, 21 May 2006)
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Back in November, Mike Campbell did what so many people do these days: He went on a date with someone he met through Match.com.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Job |
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| A Mother's Day Wish |
(Sun, 14 May 2006)
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| It being Mother's Day and all, I figured it was time for a wish list. The Working Mom's Wish List. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: A |
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| Dare to Decide |
(Sun, 07 May 2006)
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| Most days, we walk through life in the same way. We wake up surrounded by the same walls, pass the same landmarks on the way to work, the same work we've done for . . . forever? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Dare |
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| Anxiety and the Ax |
(Sun, 30 Apr 2006)
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| Andrew Card, Scott McClellan and Karl Rove. One right after the other. Quickly. Do you think the White House aides, interns and legions of speechwriters last week were biting their lips, wondering what was next? If they were next? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Anxiety |
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| Now It's Time For Women To Get Even |
(Sun, 23 Apr 2006)
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Tuesday marks a very special day: It's Equal Pay Day. Why Tuesday, you ask? Because that's how far into the year the average woman must work to earn as much as a man earned by the end of the previous year.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Now |
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| Sweating the Small Stuff, for Good Reason |
(Sun, 16 Apr 2006)
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| We all have real things to worry about at work: job stability, a raise, making sure there are no mistakes on that big project. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Sweating |
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| Hardly the Proper Fit |
(Sun, 09 Apr 2006)
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| Have you ever ordered a pair of shoes online that looked and sounded so perfect, only to put them on at home and realize they were all wrong? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Hardly |
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| Stuck at Mid-Level And Eager to Climb |
(Sun, 02 Apr 2006)
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| What if, instead of a glass ceiling, it's a sticky floor that holds down women in corporate America? That's the thinking of Rebecca Shambaugh. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Stuck |
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| The Fine Line of Lying |
(Sun, 26 Mar 2006)
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Nancy Palazza had a very unpleasant task awaiting her this past Wednesday. Palazza, the owner of a firm that places workers in jobs throughout the region, received a call from a client saying one of the workers had lied on a time sheet. The person put in for 10 extra hours of overtime that Palazza's client said never happened.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: The |
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| A Comedy of Terrors |
(Sun, 19 Mar 2006)
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| Boss enters room: "Hey, everybody! I think we need a morale boost around here. Don't you? Come on! Come on over. Pull up a chair!" |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: A |
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| Old Friends and a Character's Namesake |
(Sun, 19 Mar 2006)
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| This Jim Halpert is no Scranton paper salesman. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Old |
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| A Hidden Show of Talent |
(Sun, 12 Mar 2006)
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| The vast land of workers is full of them: people who do their jobs, but actually have so much more to offer. These people could possess great hidden leadership talent, smart ideas about how to run things better. The only problem is how to identify these so-called high-potential employees. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
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| Able Versus Amiable |
(Sun, 05 Mar 2006)
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Are you a likable employee? How much does it matter to you if your boss is a kind woman? Would you rather work with someone who knows what he is doing but is a jerk? Or would you rather be on a project with someone who might be a bit clueless but reeeeally nice?
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Able |
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| Stop! Lunch Thief! |
(Sun, 26 Feb 2006)
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| It was the late 1980s and Dena Price had bought herself a sub sandwich: half to eat right away, half to save. (She was on a budget, after all.) The legal secretary dug into the company fridge on Day Two to retrieve her lunch. Lo and behold, her half of a sub was now a quarter of a sub. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Stop! |
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| Blogged Out of a Job |
(Sun, 19 Feb 2006)
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| The number of bloggers continues to grow, but the number of workplace policies explaining the company's rules on blogging remains anemic. And that can cause a lot of workplace angst for both management and workers. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Blogged |
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| Office Mates |
(Sun, 12 Feb 2006)
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| Who needs Match.com, eHarmony or J-Date when you've got ye olde workplace? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Office |
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| Attitudes and Action |
(Sun, 05 Feb 2006)
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Raise your hand if you think you could run your workplace better than those who are in charge now.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Attitudes |
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| 'You're Making What?' |
(Sun, 29 Jan 2006)
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| A friend of mine once found out over a casual lunch conversation that a male counterpart -- same job, hired after her -- was making a good chunk of change more than she was. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: 'You're |
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| Become a Task Master |
(Sun, 22 Jan 2006)
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| How organized are you? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Become |
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| Got Canned? Join the Club. |
(Sun, 15 Jan 2006)
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| It's a kick-in-the-gut, suck-the-air-from-the-room, I'm-hearing-voices-and-they-are-echoing-in-my-head kind of experience. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Got |
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| Baby, and Business, on Board |
(Sun, 08 Jan 2006)
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Jen Sterling left her job as a graphic designer at the World Bank more than 13 years ago. She was a few years out of school and knew pretty quickly that she did not like working for someone else. She spent her years at the organization making a list of things she would not do if she ever had a staff.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Baby, |
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| Some Promises You Should Keep |
(Sun, 01 Jan 2006)
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| At the beginning of a new year, I always like looking at a calendar that I keep on my desk (yes, I'm old school), knowing it's wide open. It's as if that calendar is sitting there saying, "I'm all yours." |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Some |
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| Exits Without Honor |
(Sun, 25 Dec 2005)
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| Palms sweating, words rehearsed, day shot until that moment comes: resignation time. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Exits |
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| Two for the Job |
(Sun, 18 Dec 2005)
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| Martha Mensch works three days a week as the director of strategic development in the finance department at Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Two |
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| A Holiday On Hold |
(Sun, 11 Dec 2005)
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Corporate holiday parties are back. Newport Beach, Calif., yacht cruises were all booked for parties by the beginning of November. Many restaurants report their December was booked six months ago. Companies are boosting their holiday budgets by as much as 20 percent.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: A |
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| Getting Unstuck From the Rut |
(Sun, 04 Dec 2005)
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| "I stayed in my position for eight months (about seven and a half months longer than I wanted to). The work was boring, it was in a field I had no experience in or desire to learn about . . . and there was a bitter and awful office manager who had the ear of the president, and used that to constantly undermine my work." |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Getting |
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| Handling the Reins |
(Sun, 27 Nov 2005)
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| When Peter F. Drucker, the management guru whose work spanned the latter half of the 20th century, passed away earlier this month, it caused a few managers to think. Again. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Handling |
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| A Surprising Response To Cubicle Misery |
(Sun, 20 Nov 2005)
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| Melissa Thomas was about to talk to me about life in cube-land. But the cell connection was cut off between the elevator and the sidewalk outside her office in Miami. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: A |
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| The Bonus Question |
(Sun, 13 Nov 2005)
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The season of bonuses and raises used to bring hand-wringing over decisions about who gets what. These days, though, in many cases co-workers receive the same bump in salary, even when increases are supposed to be based on merit.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: The |
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| Programs of Give vs. Take |
(Sun, 06 Nov 2005)
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| It's that time of year again. The United Way campaign. The around-the-corner holidays when the office spends a day volunteering at the nearby food bank. The good-feeling pre-Jan. 1 announcement of how much the company gave to charity this year. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Programs |
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| Office Stereotyping and How It Stifles |
(Sun, 30 Oct 2005)
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| A few weeks ago, Neil French, a well-known advertising executive, told 300 people that women "don't make it to the top because they don't deserve to." He elaborated, saying that women are apt to "wimp out and go suckle something." |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Office |
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| Antisocial Anxiety |
(Sun, 23 Oct 2005)
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| Does an order from your boss to go out and have a martini with co-workers sound like a dream to you? |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Antisocial |
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| Dead-Weight Workers Drag Everyone Down |
(Sun, 09 Oct 2005)
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Do you work with a Costanza?
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Dead-Weight |
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| Just a Friendly Shakedown |
(Sun, 02 Oct 2005)
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| You know the drill. It's Joe's birthday. Yeah, he's the guy in the cubicle around the corner. Everyone's kicking in $5 so they can get him the inflatable flamingo for his desk. Hand it over. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Just |
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| Discriminating Dress |
(Sun, 25 Sep 2005)
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| Job interviews are full of stress. We worry about what to wear, whether to carry a briefcase, how to get there, and whether our sweaty palms will be that noticeable when we shake hands with our interviewer. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Discriminating |
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| Shhh -- Recruiter on the Line |
(Sun, 18 Sep 2005)
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| Oh, to be among the wanted. That's what many workers out there say when they hear friends or colleagues moaning that they don't know what to do when a recruiter -- or headhunter -- calls them at work to tell them about an exciting new job. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Shhh |
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| What Are We Celebrating? |
(Sun, 04 Sep 2005)
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Labor Day: that one time a year when we have a Monday off without commemorating something horrendous or momentous that happened years ago. Believed to have been started with a parade on Sept. 5, 1882, in New York City, probably by Peter J. McGuire, a carpenters and joiners union secretary, Labor Day now marks a time for workers to reflect on their jobs.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: What |
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| Firms Hit by Hurricane Struggle With Paychecks |
(Thu, 01 Sep 2005)
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| Companies hit by major destruction and lost business also are grappling with how generous they can afford to be to employees who have lost both homes and work because of Hurricane Katrina. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Firms |
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| Office Perks |
(Sun, 28 Aug 2005)
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| Even if we like our work, sometimes it takes a little extra something to get up that oomph during the day -- and no, I'm not talking about a double espresso with a side of espresso. (Not that there's anything wrong with that.) |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Office |
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| Undercover Friends |
(Sun, 21 Aug 2005)
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| Can an employer tell you whom to pal around with after work? Could you get fired for going to a co-worker's Fourth of July barbecue? You could if you work as a security guard for Guardsmark LLC, the big security company that employs guards just about everywhere (including at The Washington Post). |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Undercover |
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| The Power of Appreciation |
(Sun, 14 Aug 2005)
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Hey, what about me!?
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: The |
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| Dare to Dream |
(Sun, 07 Aug 2005)
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| Every day on my way to work, I walk over a message stenciled on a sidewalk near downtown Washington. It reads Dream More Work Less. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Dare |
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| Saying Goodbye Gracefully |
(Sun, 24 Jul 2005)
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| Sheri Miller once returned from a two-week vacation to find a two-week-old e-mail from one of her employees saying he had resigned and was giving his two weeks' notice. No more information, no note, not even a voice-mail message. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Saying |
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| Staffers' Superhero Skills |
(Sun, 17 Jul 2005)
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| This is the final column in a series of four where you, dear readers, shed some light on the good, the bad and the ugly of the workplace. In the first column, you shared with us what you didn't like about your supervisors. The next column was about what you thought made a good manager. Two weeks ago, it was time for managers to point out common worker mistakes. |
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Staffers' |
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| Nibbling Away |
(Sun, 10 Jul 2005)
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I don't usually reveal my own workplace's issues in this space, but this week I must unload on you.
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Author: Amy Joyce |
Category: Nibbling |
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