TheJobBored

If we put our heads together, we can surely add a bunch to this list. Pitch in with your favorites in the comments.
C/O TimesOnline for the original post.
P.S.: Yes, that’s British slang you’re reading. I’ve included links to definitions.
1. Losing track of gossip. There’s nothing worse than sharing a juicy piece of semi-anonymous scuttlebutt […]

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I think I referenced a post from WiseBread yesterday. They’re a good multi-author blog covering a range of topics.
I ran across this post by a woman who used to do the hiring and recruiting at a previous job. She has a couple of good points about what makes a good interviewee… from the interviewer’s perspective. […]

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If you woke up today and your morning paper put you in a bad mood, there’s a good reason why. It seems the hemming and hawing is over… a recession seems neigh and likely. The stock market seems to agree.
Now, I’m no doom and gloom artist; nor am I some sort of economic prognosticator. But […]

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I’ve written before about the crop of new (very often free) alternatives to Microsoft Office. I think it’s pretty universal that we all have had it up to here with Word and especially Outlook, but what can you do? Your work servers support what they support, and if everyone else in the world uses Office, […]

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Tax season is here of course, so I’m going to be keeping my eye out for good tax planning/preparation content.
Personal finance blog WiseBread has a post up about a new phenomenon I hadn’t heard of before.
It’s called a Refund Anticipation Loan (RAL). The idea is, you go to a tax preparer like H&R Block, and […]

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There’s a great post up at Dumb Little Man giving you a rundown of office-politics survival-strategies. It’s an unusually well thought-out post, as these sort of posts go, and it reads a bit like Sun Tzu mixed with Machiavelli. Some of my favorite techniques:
Before Engaging in Political Battle, Know How Much Power You Have. This […]

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On Tuesday, I posted a link to a Wired article giving you tips on how to keep your boss from snooping on you at work.
A reader pointed out that if you scrolled down below that, you’d see a list of tips written by Dilbert creator Scott Adams entitled “Look Busy.”
So, I went to check, and […]

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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/educational/The_Proper_Job_Search_Attitude’;I’m not a big fan of motivational posts. I much prefer to give you tangible tips and hacks, so this is probably as close as I’m going to get to this sort of thing.
But the proper job search attitude is important, and I’ll tell you why. You can’t land the sort of […]

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I know this is a bit off our topic, but this is too good not to pass along.
Tax season is coming up- er… here already. And anyone anytime could use some decent advice about financial and retirement planning. Need to re-organize your 401k? Or start one?
I got a great today only resource. Via GetRichSlowly, […]

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I’m definitely in a hardly working mode today. Since I’m sitting around waiting for the live broadcast from MacWorld, I’m in a time wasting/tech state of mind. (At least I don’t have to liveblog Steve-o’s address like the poor souls at Gizmodo)
I started looking for resources to help you browse at work without your boss […]

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