Financial Hack

‘How are you at shaking hands and kissing babies?’ my manager asked. ‘Germaphobic and allergic to baby powder?’ I wanted to respond. Instead, I enthusiastically replied, ‘Great! What can I do for you?’ ‘We’d like you to represent us at a meet and great between government agencies and private agencies’ he said. ‘So what you’re [...]

The personality preference class was… interesting. HR put me through an hour of testing and three hours of scenario testing. It wasn’t until halfway through that I realized… the results of this test may hurt me! Am I going to lose my job over this? But, like I said before, I’m big on honesty at [...]

I was approached by an HR manager and asked to participate in a personality preference class… as an example. ‘An example of what?’ I asked confused. ‘Well, you seem to really like lists and organization. Very type A’ he said. ‘Oh. Um. Ok. Sure’ I said. Did the guy know I wrote a blog yesterday [...]

I was reading a recent Time magazine article about jobs. According to the article, people are focusing on their jobs as the only way to build wealth since property and investments have gone south. In this economy, it seems like 10% of the population doesn’t have jobs and the other 90% are struggling to keep [...]

I tend to be a little on the clumsy side and a little on the edge of dim. I was a member of the international honor society and made the dean’s list every year in college. I competed in kickboxing and trained with an Olympian. I can perform killer half moon kicks and read novels [...]

Thanks to the nature of the company I work for, our meetings are occasionally held publically. They are often televised or played on the radio… though I think our audience is primarily retirees and community involved stay at home mothers. I’d never thought about our audience… until this week. We were forced to cut our [...]

My company is conducting internal ‘how are we doing’ roundtable meetings. Before the meetings started, they hired a third party company to conduct ‘confidential’ written surveys. The following information was required to complete the ‘confidential’ form (did I mention it was supposed to be confidential?): 1: Your Department 2: Your Age 3: Your Gender 4: [...]

Username: Rebekah Password: ******** Enter. ‘You have been locked out of all Company X computers. ’ Popped up in bright red letters across my computer. ‘Candy? Can you log in?’ I squeaked to a co-worker. ‘Yeah, no problems. Why…’ she started to say and stopped suddenly when she saw my screen. ‘I hate to say [...]

To say I’ve been nervous about the ‘longevity’ of my job is about as big of an understatement as saying George Foreman had a moderately good idea when he bought into the ‘grilling’ concept. My boss notified me that he had submitted all the positions in my department for review today. He doesn’t believe anyone [...]

In my previous construction related job, if an error was made I would deny it was me. Whatever it was could have had my full name, my job title, my company, my social security number, and the name of my first pet and… I’d still point my finger at the next lowest man on the [...]