TheJobBored

Here’s an appropriate post for a Monday.
BusinessWeek has a short article about how some companies, in the name of worker and server sanity, are encouraging workers to hold off sending emails over the weekend.
I think we can all relate to coming fresh into the office, only to be deluged by a mountain of emails that […]

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Man, was I busy last week! That’s why I grabbed the quick 4-day vacation last month when the opportunity came up. I knew this week was coming.
Even though I’ve turned over the day to day operations at ResumeWriters.com to professional management, in the end, I’m still the bossman, and occasionally that means I have to […]

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I’m usually hard on Microsoft on this blog. But nerdy tech circles today are abuzz at the announcement of Live Mesh from Microsoft. Think of Live Mesh as one ring to sync them all, every device and every file… provided you use Windows.
Apparently, this whole system is not quite ready for immediate use, but […]

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Just in time for lunch hour, Readers Digest has a handy list of 15 ways to maximize your lunch hour.
No, it’s not a list of ways to squeeze work into your lunch hour. But it is heavy on ways to eat healthier and with greater ease. And yes, there’s a suggestion or two to get […]

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I remember when wifi and laptops first proliferated in college classrooms. Right away I noticed: no one was paying attention.
Oh, don’t get me wrong, there was plenty going on… plenty of IM discussions amongst the students in the audience.
The same sort of problem has made its way to corporate life: (from the Mercury News, via […]

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Here’s a real MacGyver office hack for you.
Ever find yourself without a paper clip or stapler handy, but need to quickly and firmly keep a bunch of papers together?
This step-by-step tutorial will show you how to use an origami technique to keep all your papers fastened.
Of course, this technique does require the use of a […]

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A lot of times on this blog, we like to point you to fun ways to waste time while at work.
We even have a whole category of posts devoted to such pursuits.
This is thejobBORED after all.
But some of you have this crazy idea that you should remain disciplined at work. You funny creatures thirst for […]

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You ever have one of those days where everything goes bad at the same time?
Amongst the several other fires I had to put out today, I’m sorry this blog was down for most of the morning. T’wasnt my fault, t’was the fault of the webhost.
Now I’ve gotten everything under control and I’m trying like hell […]

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I wrote about this before.
It’s time to get excited!
If this sort of thing keeps up, we might have all you can eat (voice, data, text messaging, etc.) plans for less than $100 by the end of the year!

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You gotta figure the good people at Lifehacker have seen about every trick in the book. They just celebrated their 3 year anniversary, and over that time they’ve published hacks for everything from being more productive to making a DYI energy-free refrigerator.
I guess they’re starting a top 10s series, and today they have a list […]

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