Sweet Reason with a dose of Common Sense
Editor’s Note: Here’s one of my most popular holiday classics. This one is from back in December 2018. I’VE HAD TO WORK THROUGH so many holiday seasons that I feel a little like Clark Griswold. If the name doesn’t ring a bell, the character should. It’s the role Chevy Chase played numerous times, but most
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some of my most popular posts. Here’s one from back in December 2017. THE HEADLINE ON A STORY in The Wall Street Journal pretty much said it all: Welcome to the Post-Weinstein Holiday Party. What followed was 1,400 depressing words that basically said, without actually saying it, something that you probably already know
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some of my most popular posts here on The Skeptical Guy. Here’s one that was originally published back in August 2017. HERE’S A CONFESSION: I hate online job ads because I’ve found that they’re a crappy way to find the very best candidates. On the one hand, my recruiter side
WRITING THIS BLOG often makes me reflect on people I’ve encountered during my career. Sometimes people ask, “Who was the oddest person you ever had working for you?” and although quite a few pop into my head, there’s one that tops all others. It’s a guy named Larry who I worked with in San Diego
LOYAL READERS of this blog — I think there are a couple of you out there — may have wondered why I haven’t published for the last few weeks. My apologies for that, but there are a number of reasons for me going radio silent. The big one is that my family has been struggling
Editor’s Note: I’m occasionally republishing some of my classic posts here on The Skeptical Guy. Here’s one that was originally published back in August 2012. HERE’S A STORY I SAW saw over at Forbes that was so odd that it caught even my cynical and jaded eye — Six Lines Your Boss Should Never Cross.
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
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
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
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
