Outsource Your Work from The Onion
It's Friday. You're antsy and a little tired from the work week. Wouldn't it be nice if you could just get someone else to do your job for you? The Onion has come up with a great idea - Outsource your job to overseas workers! Pay someone else to do your work so you can spend more time playing sudoku. Too much brain power? Eh...then just stare. Think of all you can do with your free time.... Check out the clip here. Is it bad that I think this is a brilliant idea? Leave it to The Onion to come up with all ...
How to Live Cheap and Save Money When You Don’t Have Much, Part 1
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The Best Kept Secret for Career Planning – The Informational Interview, Part 1
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Personal Finance
Miss Mentor How to Create a Budget
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How to Live Cheap and Save Money When You Don’t Have Much, Part 1
Some creative ways and other tried and true methods to live cheap and start saving now when you’re in your 20’s and on a tight budget. It’s hard...
How to Live Cheap and Save Money When You Don’t Have Much, Part 2
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Brain Candy
Office Party Etiquette: Cinderella Situation
So given the title you may be thinking there will be a magical prince popping out of the woodwork to take you dancing through the night.
My apologies, no.
This little tale is about how to arrive at the Office Holiday Party.
The concept of Fashionably Late . . .
So the party starts at 7p and ends at 10p. In some circles this means you show up at 9p.
no.
More specifically he** no. Your company has either rented the space or your boss, boss’s boss or boss’s boss’s boss’s cousin’s best friend is hosting the party at his home, so when they say the party ends at 10p, they mean 10p.
When you arrive at 9p, you may unintentionally cause the party to kick right back up a notch. You are after all a bad ass. The revelers will be delighted to see you, but the host and hostess will not.
Remember your teacher threatening the boy who was always shouting out in class and not turning in his homework, “This will go on your permanent record,” as though that meant something serious? Yeah, showing up unfashionably late works the same way.
So for the love of your boss, please arrive 15-30 minutes after start time. Anything later gets into rude territory.
What about the other extreme . . . being very, very precisely on time?
Oh how boring!
If the party is at a home, they may not be ready for you. You really don’t want to be the one who arrives first.
So play it safe 15-30 minutes after start time is perfect. No one is uber sloshed yet so you can have a polite conversation about totally mundane topics. AND, you can scoot out of there after 60-90 minutes – after all – you, Miss Hotty Totty, have places to go and parties to kick start.
Is Miss Mentor’s advice consistent? Check out our Office Party Etiquette series from 2 years ago.
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