02
Apr
2008
Bad News - 95% of People Have Jobs
Posted by Steve Rhode as Business Advice, Business Failures, Economy, Employees Not Watching, Work Related
If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed right now, before you forget, to get the latest posts. Thanks for visiting! For those of us financial, debt and credit experts it is just so easy to drift to one side and see things with alarm. Every bit of new news seems like yet ...[Read More]
06
Mar
2008
Cubicles Suck! How to Never Be At Work But Get a Paycheck.
Posted by Steve Rhode as Business Advice, Making Money, Work Related
I just read a great guest post by Mark Hayward titled “Chasing Coconuts: From the Cubicle to the Caribbean“. Mark’s background on his blog MyTropicalEscape makes for a good starting point on his blog and it is worth reading if you have ever been interested in breaking the bonds ...[Read More]
05
Feb
2008
Goof Off At Work And Make Your Own Book Covers
Posted by Steve Rhode as Employees Not Watching, Funny Stuff, Work Related
While you’re looking for a brain break at work and just wanting to kill a little time because yet another employee has done something stupid to ruin your day, here is a little distraction that is both free and fun. The oreillymaker. Those of us that have wandered the bookshelves in the ...[Read More]
29
Jan
2008
Company Pays You To Shop Instead of Work - Shopping Leave
Posted by Steve Rhode as Wa-Wa-What, Work Related
I’m not sure if I should laugh or cry about this story. Hime & Company staff can also take two mornings off twice a year as “sales shopping leave”, so they can race to stores to hunt for bargains. “Before, women could take half-days off to go to sales, but ...[Read More]
15
Jan
2008
RTFM - The Very Best Computer Advice Ever
Posted by Steve Rhode as Business Advice, Technology, Work Related
Back in my days of working at IBM there was this crotchety mainframe programmer, smarter and wiser than anyone, Don Touso. His bark was definitely worse than his bite and once you learned to ignore the bark, he was a pleasure to hang around. I was the supervisor of the mainframe tech support ...[Read More]
11
Jan
2008
NWVDirect Provides Exceptionally Bad Customer Service - “Go Fuck Yourself”
Posted by Steve Rhode as Business Failures, Customer Service, Wa-Wa-What, Work Related
Apparently online Audio visual retailer NWVDirect has set a new low in how to treat customers. What makes this story even more unusual is that the person being victimized was able to record the conversation. [Consumerist] ----- If you enjoyed this post be sure to grab the RSS feed or get posts ...[Read More]
09
Jan
2008
You Boss May Be Watching You Read This Right Now
Posted by Steve Rhode as Beware, Work Related
eTelemetry has come out with the Metron, a nifty piece of hardware that plugs into the corporate network to keep tabs on what you do online and send your manager alerts if you are goofing off or chatting to much. The device provides: Alerts when surfing and chatting exceeds a preset ...[Read More]
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