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Now is the winter of our detachment.

The fall, the spring and the summer, too.

According to a recent report from the Nosey Norberts at Gallup, "employees across America are feeling detached from their jobs." Really, what choice do they have? It would be nice if everyone with a job they didn't like would do the decent thing and resign on ...Read more

What will be the biggest career trends of 2025? The same biggest career trends of 2024, only worse.

According to my reading of "Five Trends that Will Shape Your Career in 2025," a timely and scary Stephanie Vozza article for Fast Company, many of the same trends that ruined 2024 will be working even harder to spoil 2025.

For example, don't ...Read more

I don't want to be judgy, but isn't it getting a little late for you to decide on a holiday present for your boss?

You don't give your boss a present? You only think about what the boss should give you? That's a mistake. Miss the holiday gifting season and your problem could be deciding on a gift for that friendly clerk at the unemployment ...Read more

Think you're alone in dreading your company's annual holiday party? Think again.

There's a person who hates the holiday party even more than you. That person is your boss.

It makes sense. You only have to go to the party. The boss has to plan it. And even if the boss delegates the details to an underling -- as the boss tends to do with ...Read more

It's the biggest office party of the year -- the annual holiday extravaganza where even the most remote remote workers drag themselves back to the workplace to celebrate with bad food, fake comradery and fun with a capital F.

And -- oh yes -- firings. Firings have a capital F, too.

It's true! Employees go to the party, ready for fun, and ...Read more

Thinking about using artificial intelligence at work? Here's something you should know. If something goes wrong with the results you get, it's not the AI's fault; it's yours.

If you've experimented with any of the popular systems, you know this is true. Whether you're chatting it up with Chat GPT, cozying up with Claude or are sympatico with ...Read more

Struggling to get through the workday?

You don't need a new job. You need a new ritual.

Or maybe two, or maybe four, or maybe 10. Speaking frankly, it's difficult to judge how many rituals are need by someone in your dire condition.

And what is a workday ritual, anyway? According to "The Research-Backed Benefits of Daily Rituals," an ...Read more

"Think outside the box."

That's what everyone says you should do. But what you if you're the kind of workday weirdo that likes the box -- that cozy, comfy box and the eye-of-the hurricane sense of calm that comes when you're tucked inside and no one can get you?

No one except a rule breaker.

Rule breakers are the hurricane. Ignoring company...Read more

Need a career boost? Schedule a "skip-level meeting."

That's a meeting that skips the person who directly manages your job and your paycheck to schmooze with some dingbat two steps higher on the org chart, who doesn't know you exist.

The concept of a skip-level meeting was news to me -- news I received from Melody Wilding, author of "How to ...Read more

You probably haven't noticed, but there's been an election going on. It's made those of us who have noticed... a tad nervous. Devastating weather events, such as hurricanes and floods, have added to our anxiety, and, of course, the battle for supremacy waging between Chelsea and Tiffany on "The Real Housewives of Yuma, Arizona" has everyone in...Read more

More "thank you's" and fewer "screw you's."

That's what it takes to be a success in business today.

Who says? I says. Taylor Telford says so, too.

"The years spent apart from colleagues have rusted workers' social skills," Telford writes in "Business Etiquette Classes Boom as People Relearn How to Act at Work," a recent article in The ...Read more

Is that a dark cloud of gloom hanging over your workspace?

I knew it!

Why else would you stop what you're doing to find out what this idiot has to say?

And what this idiot says is that you need to read "4 Ways to Turn Around a Bad Day," Jancee Dunn's hopeful column in The New York Times.

The turnaround starts with clinical psychologist ...Read more