I’ve had countless people write to me, as a workplace columnist, to describe the security guard standing next to them as they packed up their soon-to-be-former desk and painfully did a final perp walk out of the building. Mine was not nearly that cinematic. Just me, a bunch of boxes and a coworker with whom …
My boss, and his henchman, arrived promptly for the meeting to discuss my sales update. It was 4 pm on Friday afternoon, approximately 48 hours ago. I knew something was up because my boss started speaking totally in sentence fragments. “I’ve made up my mind, things aren’t working out, I need people to get along, …
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Speaker of the House of Representatives, John Boehner cries on “60 Minutes.” He cries during a swearing in ceremony. He cries in another interview. Will it be long before he cries over a lost parking spot? In fact, enter the phrase “John Boehner cries” into Google and you’ll get 351,000 links. Holy Tip O’Neill, what …
A while back Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas achieved a quiet milestone. He has gone five entire terms as a Supreme without asking a question. Just to put this in perspective, no previous Supreme level judge had gone one entire session without asking a question. Five years. Hello darkness my old friend, I’m come to …
Okay, this is yet another article about the current wave of protests in the Middle East and the implications for the rest of us (in the case of this blog, for the workplace). A strained metaphor? Undoubtedly. Annoying? Hopefully not. Important? Well, what do you think I’m going to say after spending the past two …
In just eighteen days, Egypt went from being a pillar of the Middle East to being the poster child for the demise of out-of-touch dictators. Rather than focusing on the geopolitical lessons, of which there are many, I’d rather take it all back to the workplace. Could your CEO be the next out of touch …
Have you ever worked in a job where you felt like the Energizer Bunny, Superman and James Brown rolled into one. You know what I mean, like you’re the hardest working person in your company always willing to leap tall inboxes in a single bound? If you’re like many of the people who write to …
This blog will undoubtedly make many of you ask one question, how good is my mental health benefit with my HMO? I realized I was really happy today, because the Super Bowl will feature Green Bay and Pittsburgh. Or to be more factually correct, because it will not feature New York and Chicago. But it …
When I get older losing my hair, Many losses from now, Will you still be sending Joe PA a valentine, Bowl bids and high school stars divine. If Hef’s been out for dinner at quarter to three (pm), Would you lock the mansion’s door? Will you marry a guy who’s 60 years your senior, When …
When I’m 84 (Dedicated to Joe Paterno & Hugh Hefner) Read More »
Since technology today is mostly synonymous with business, your intrepid blogger decided to journey to the bleeding edge of technology, the annual Consumer Electronics Show (a.k.a. CES), in Las Vegas. It’s a rough job, somebody has got to do it. I’ve read a lot of articles on this year’s conference. Most talk up tablet computers …
Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.
