TheJobBored

A weekly wrap-up of the forwards, email, jokes, You Tube videos and water cooler chatter making its way around America’s offices this week.
I don’t know about you, but this kinda makes me want to vote for Jefferson. By the way, as the great Ezra pointed out, this is actual text being read from contemporary anti-Jefferson […]

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In all of the Web 2.0 madness over the last couple of years, we’ve gotten social networks for ferret owners, about two dozens variations on Evite and a million Ajax-y calendar apps.
Finally, we have a decent entry in the organize-your-travel category. If you’re a heavy duty road warrior, then you know that keeping track of […]

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Chances are, if you’re on a social network at work, it’s probably LinkedIn. Facebook is making major strides toward eating their lunch (I’m mulling a post on this in the near future) but for now, with a recently announced 17 million users, LinkedIn still rules the business networking roost.
This morning LinkedIn announced a slew of […]

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A weekly wrap-up of the forwards, email, jokes, You Tube videos and water cooler chatter making its way around America’s offices this week.
Just like there was something wrong when the old people took over rock and roll, there’s something really wrong when the really old people take over video gaming.
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If you have career or job search question you would like answered on this blog, click here to Ask Brian.
Reader Nadia from California writes:
“My major is International Business - UCSB. I have traveled to 12 countries and am bilingual - Spanish and English? I was wondering if you had any general advice on the best […]

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It’s coming. This week or next. The office holiday party.
The office party has gone into legend not because of myths, but because, all too often, the myths are real. Can you avoid making ill-advised pass at the married guy in accounting you’ve had a crush on? Can you keep from telling your boss what you […]

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For years now, business travelers have been dreaming of the possibility of wi-fi on airplanes. The argument has always been about possible interference with the plane’s communications transmissions, but many people, including myself, have suspected that this was nothing more than a red herring.
Lo, the clouds have parted this morning, and all of the sudden, […]

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No… Not that Jobs.
Labor market stronger than expected in November
Payrolls up 94,000; jobless rate stays at 4.7% on household survey gains
(MarketWatch)

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For those of you that hadn’t heard, some of the big news this week was that Gtalk, the Google chat application, in now inter-operable with AOL Instant Messenger (AIM, if you’re hip).
Gtalk is available as a standalone downloadable client, but it’s also built into the Gmail online client, as you’ve seen if you’ve logged into […]

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I can hear some people out there already:
“What? I would never ask for a year end bonus! How presumptuous! How rude!”
Well, the fact is, people negotiate for their year end bonuses all the time. I can’t know if it’s appropriate for your situation (or even if you’re in an industry where year-end bonuses are customary) […]

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