Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
Editor’s Note: As the summer winds down, I’m republishing some of my most well read posts here on The Skeptical Guy. This one is from back in March 2015. A LONG TIME AGO, I worked with a company that valued managers with great personalities over just about anything else. There was one guy who corporate management
I LOVE IT WHEN an editor somewhere writes a snappy headline that makes me really want to read the story. I’ve written a few of those myself, and I know how hard they are to compose, but oh how wonderful they read when you pen one that really clicks. I found one like that in
LEAVING A JOB is never, ever easy — even when you’re jumping to something new that might be pretty good. That’s because people frequently have mixed feelings when they finally make the decision to go somewhere else. Even when you have a bad job, work at a horrible company, or have a terrible boss, you
HERE’S SOMETHING I wonder about: why are we all so surprised that there are so many fake job ads getting posted today? ResumeBuilder.com touted a survey they did with “649 hiring managers” in May 2024 that came up with the not-so-surprising finding that “40% of companies posted a fake job listing this year” and that
Editor’s Note: Have a great Fourth of July. We’ll be taking off some time and back July 8. IT WAS A HEADLINE that grabbed me because what it said was pretty amazing. The story was in Worklife, a website I don’t look at very often … until somebody flags a headline like this — Over
I WAS INTO REMOTE work long before anyone called it that. But it took me some time before I had a job suited for it. Back then I was a Vice President at the much maligned, ahead of its time Pets.com — it was an early version of Chewy despite what Chewy’s former CEO says
A LONG TIME AGO, in a workplace far, far away, I ranted about all the dumb meetings I had attended over the years. The original blog post on that has been lost to institutional idiocy at the publication that made it impossible to find again some 15 years after I wrote it, but the gist
HAVE YOU EVER heard a manager ever say that they DON’T have an open door policy? I haven’t, and I would guess nobody else has either. That’s because it’s one of those platitudes that leaders fall back on because they know that saying you’re always accessible is a lot different than actually BEING accessible. In
I’VE BEEN SAYING THIS for a few months now: the job market is screwy and not nearly as good as everyone — especially the president — has been saying it is. I’m not as plugged into the recruiting and hiring space as I was for the past 20 years, but even I can hear the
I CAN’T TELL YOU how many times I longed for hybrid work. It wasn’t called that back when I first asked my boss about it in 2000, or again in 2007-2008, or even as recently as 2016. It wasn’t called hybrid, or remote, or anything back then, but it didn’t matter because I worked for
