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2013/06/18 02:13
2013/06/18 02:13
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Hi, my name is Rex Huppke. You might remember me from the hundreds of times my name has appeared in this large, metropolitan newspaper and on its website, or from the thousands of posts I've made on...
2013/06/18 02:13
2013/06/18 02:13
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2013/06/15 11:13
2013/06/15 11:13
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That's a good point! (No it isn't.) I'd be happy to join the team! (I'd rather be eaten by wart hogs.) Your cake is delicious! (Thanks for the food poisoning, Julia Child.) These are but a few...
2013/06/13 10:52
2013/06/13 10:52
5d
There was nothing wrong with this exchange, but it was weird, and it reminded me of my ongoing desire to see people in the workplace act naturally. It would have been fine if the worker told us we...
2013/06/09 10:39
2013/06/09 10:39
9d
Central to the emotional vampire idea is recognition that lying sales reps and bosses who manage via motivational aphorisms are not simply annoying – they likely have personality disorders. That means...
2013/06/08 11:13
2013/06/08 11:13
10d
As regular readers of this column know, my last vacation involved a cactus and the unfortunate perforation of my buttocks. (Thank you for all the sympathy cards.) So I'm pleased to report that on a...
2013/06/05 07:39
2013/06/05 07:39
13d
Bernstein's descriptions of narcissistic managers and approval-seeking co-workers are spot-on, but what's invaluable is the book's pragmatic strategies for handling the humanoids who drive us...
2013/06/02 09:28
2013/06/02 09:28
16d
So unless you can say with 100 percent certainty that your company will be loyal to you – and nobody can – your loyalty should be only to yourself and your career. Some will say that's cynical, a...
2013/06/01 11:25
2013/06/01 11:25
17d
Good news. The vampires are back! About a year ago, I introduced you to "emotional vampires," a term created by a West Coast clinical psychologist to describe all the nasty, terrible, irritating...
2013/05/29 07:38
2013/05/29 07:38
20d
The concept of workers spending decades at one company isn't dead, but it is, at best, infirm. Economic pressures and the rapid pace of technology make long-term loyalty - from employer and employee -...
2013/05/27 10:52
2013/05/27 10:52
22d
For some, these terms become part of the lexicon, a way of sounding important or, at the very least, in-the-know. But for others, they serve only to obfuscate. Every day I get workplace-related press...
2013/05/25 11:13
2013/05/25 11:13
24d
So, job candidate, where do you see yourself in five years? Yes, I know that's the worst interview question ever invented. But what's your answer? What's that? It sounded like you said, "Elsewhere."...
2013/05/22 07:38
2013/05/22 07:38
27d
Despite having a perfectly good and well-tested English language, corporate America continually cranks out new words and phrases, or applies existing words in new ways: consumerization,...
2013/05/19 10:04
2013/05/19 10:04
30d
Executive: Who are you? And why are you in my office wearing pajamas? Me: I'm America's most-beloved workplace advice columnist. I wear what I please. Then the police come, and there's some...
2013/05/18 11:13
2013/05/18 11:13
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I was dynamically engaging one of my fellow content marketers in the company brainstorming arena the other day, when I came up with a win-win value proposition for in-house onboarding of new talent to...