Ah, the infamous performance review – you love it. You sit down and await for hopefully constructive criticism from your supervisor. It can go one of two ways: Good or Bad. It’s all about the attitude – yours and your supervisors. The last thing you want to happen is walk into a performance review when your boss is having a [...]

A co-worker falls ill and ends up at the hospital. What does your office do? Send flowers? Cards? Visit them? Steal their office supplies? Okay, that last one was a little out there but trust me it has happened and to be honest I’m not proud of it. Truth be told I had NO clue they were laid up with [...]

Okay, it’s been awhile since my post and while I hate excuses I can say that what has happened in the last few weeks has shown me sides of people I never thought existed. One thing I found out, not from my doing of course, is that during this economic recession making waves is the WORST thing you can do. [...]

People are getting laid off daily during the recession and I’ve mentioned some tips on How To Stay Invisible. Now over at Wired they broke down the top 4 contents of how to lay off someone – or tell tall signs that you might be getting fired. While most are pretty standard: 1) Predictability 2) Understanding 3) Empowerment 4) Compassion [...]

Image via Wikipedia When I wrote the introduction to my boss I mentioned the spreadsheet of doom. Allow me to go into detail a little bit about it. What my boss has done has put down each employee’s name, the date and how many minutes late. My boss’s office makes sure that each employee comes by his office so he [...]

Image by maveric2003 via Flickr I know, I know. It’s called Meet My Co-Workers not Meet My Boss but I felt the need to talk about about managers since I reference them quite often. So allow me to introduce to you to my personal manager. We have quite a bit in our office – in charge of different things. Why? [...]