I Hate Your Job

An Introduction To This Feature
You spend 70% of your waking weekday dealing with your job. Do you want those days to be more enjoyable and more fulfilling? I do too. It’s too big a chunk of your time to just tolerate.
This blog helps you do that in two ways:

To address particular problems: Especially […]

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Passive Aggression, How You Amuse Me
What I’m about to show you is one of my favorite things on the entire internet. It’s not funny in a way that makes you laugh until you cry, but it is funny in a way that makes you show your friends over and over again.
On the heels of […]

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Have you ever put your resume on a literal stack of other resumes?
I have. I worked in retail while in high school, and when I submitted my resume, there were already 40 others on the table.
Of course, I put mine on the bottom of the pile. This clever trick made sure I would be […]

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Ever heard of a boss-button?
The idea is that you can quickly click on a link, and it takes you to something that seems more appropriate in case you are surprised during a moment of recreation (see The G.O.T.F.A.T. Maneuver for more on the “appropriate” reaction to this situation).
Well, thanks to the guys and/or girls over […]

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The Office is one of my favorite TV shows, and the Office Olympics episode is a classic. If you aren’t familiar with it, go watch it, but in the meantime, the basic idea is that they all have these little games and ways to pass the time that they do during the day.
I know […]

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More formally known as the move to go from Goofing Off To Frustrated And Tired, this classic defense mechanism describes the appropriate reaction when caught off-task on your computer. It is typically a spastic attempt to close or minimize a browser executed simultaneously with sitting up in your chair, turning toward the intruder, […]

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Your human resources department might be a fantastic resource for you in the workplace.  Some organizations have taken the responsibility of relating to their employees seriously and approached the task with subtlety and attention to detail.  If this sounds like where you work, love your HR department.
For the rest of you, however, you want to […]

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