A recent piece in U.S.News & World Report about telecommuting closes with a piece of advice from Telecommuting for Dummies author Minda Zetlin: Post a picture of yourself at your office desk with a note that says, “I really am working from home. Call me!” Here are some more tips in a similar vein: 1. [...]
Archive for the ‘Office humor’ Category
We Were Wrong
We thought we’d pass along this funny story from the trenches of work (and work sucking): A friend of ours has a “Work Sucks” magnet on his car. When his boss saw it, he said, “Bob, I’m really disappointed in you for having that on your car.” Our friend didn’t think anything of it, but [...]
Workplace Signs
Perhaps these signs are funny. Perhaps they are sad. Perhaps they are funny-sad. (Or sad-funny.) Whatever they are, they reveal a lot about what we believe about work. A free copy of Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It to the person who best translates the hidden meanings.
When Work Is Like A Sitcom
Monster.com’s blog is running a contest that asks the eternal question: Is Your Job Like a Sitcom? Judging by the responses so far (contest ends May 5th), the answering seems to be that yes, most people’s jobs are pretty much like a sitcom. Just check out this excerpt from a contest entry about life at [...]
A long way from Dilbert . . .
. . . and yet still so close. When we first started working on the framework for what would become a Results-Only Work Environment, we didn’t have a language for what we were trying to say. We knew that work was deeply dysfunctional, and that people had all kinds of strange beliefs about time and [...]
Hawaii Chair Solves Everything
We’ve been talking about people having the right to control their schedule, that they need the freedom to choose how to best use their time in order to do their jobs, spend time with friends and family, and generally take care of themselves. Then we saw this: You know, maybe we were wrong. People don’t [...]
Home? Office? Both?
Charming piece by Lisa Takeuchi Cullen, who writes a workplace trend blog for TIME. She talks about the gossip you miss by working at home. (She is also working on her snack-hoarding problem . . . wink.) One thing we’d like to add to the conversation is the following prediction: there will come a time [...]
Dilbert Must Be Stopped!
Here’s some holiday cheer for you: a casino worker who was fired for posting a Dilbert comic strip that likened managers to a bunch of “drunken lemurs.” The best (as in worst) part: they challenged his unemployment insurance. Fortunately, the state ruled in the worker’s favor in terms of the insurance, although in our opinion [...]
Managing the Virtual Workforce Part 2:
Exercise Your Technology Savvy
Presented by Jody Thompson
February 23 at 1pm (EST)
