An open letter to all corporations that give employees no choice but to work the day after Thanksgiving.
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An open letter to all corporations that give employees no choice but to work the day after Thanksgiving.
Hate it when people hit the ‘reply to all’ button after a company email is sent out? Here’s how to prevent this from happening in your company.
It’s a bittersweet day in the New York Times Small Business section. My favorite New York Times career/entrepreneur/slash career author, Marci Alboher, has been laid off from her freelance gig. Although the column represented a large chunk of her income this past year, fortunately Alboher has other avenues of income from her other slash careers. [...]
Business trips. Something we love and hate at the same time. On the one hand, you get your lazy buttocks out of the office and dreary (for some) daily grind to go on a glamorous mission. However, it also means that at the end of a long workday, all you have to look forward to [...]
Lessons learned from bad Motrin media campaign
No waiting in security lines at the airport, no waiting for your flight in horrible first class lounges in airports around the world, and forget flying coach with the chickens. Back at work, forget the long cafeteria lines where lunch ladies slop mystery meat and mashed potatoes onto your tray. You’re special, you have your [...]
Dear Government,
A few weeks ago, the banks got like a gazillion dollars in bailout money for knowingly packaging unsustainable loans to (un)suspecting people who bought houses they couldn’t afford. Why haven’t you bailed out my neighbors? Or rewarded those of us who made intelligent decisions and can make our payments? So far, you’ve only helped [...]
Thanksgiving is practically here already. It’s next week! I’ve been busy with projects, clients, and emails galore. Just when I was stepping up my work pace, a not-so-divine intervention took place that has tied me to my bed. So here I am… a one-woman show and sick, sick, sick (but slowly improving) with work piled [...]
Over the past few weeks, I have heard more and more people talking about having a recession proof business. It has become quite the ‘in’ buzz phrase, so what can you do keep the cash dollars flowing?
Although some businesses might be very effected by the ups and down of the economy, there do tend to [...]
Yan Cheung, also known as Dragon Lady, is the richest woman in China. Find out why she’s so rich and learn more about her super powers.