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30 People Share Things In Job Descriptions That Instantly Scream "Toxic" Most of us working in the contemporary office environment have been close, or gone way off the deep end of the point where you feel like enough is enough.

30 People Share Things In Job Descriptions That Instantly Scream "Toxic"

You take your hand cream from your desk, have one last drink with your beloved colleagues, and leave all that’s been bugging you behind. And then you realize you’re out in the job hunt. Can You Get Through This Short Film without Yawning? Why you need a work spouse, even if they're virtual. A Productivity Tip To Use Every Day. The New Bar Team Playbook. Now more than ever, the bar industry needs leaders who inspire, motivate and create a strong sense of team culture.

The New Bar Team Playbook

Diageo Bar Academy offers immersive training programs for bar professionals across the globe, including a free masterclass on November 25th, on how to lead effectively during this challenging time. Despite the upheaval and chaos of the pandemic era, one thing hasn’t changed: Bar professionals still want to be successful in their industry. While it’s clear that solid drink-making technique, communication skills, and the willingness to adapt and learn remain constants in any bartender’s repertoire, during the pandemic the toolbox for success has expanded even further. More than ever, bar managers value those willing to flex outside of their job description and support others on the team, while being able to balance safety for staff and guests alongside service. Replace Your To-Do List With Interstitial Journaling To Increase Productivity. Inside Amazon's Very Weird, Yet Efficient Staff Meetings. People Share 30 Worst Job Interview Stories And Personal Experiences, And Some Are Hard To Imagine.

You’ve all heard tips for what you should definitely not do in a job interview, like saying that your biggest weakness is your perfectionism, or neglecting to skim through the company’s website beforehand so you’re left asking what it is they do, anyway.

People Share 30 Worst Job Interview Stories And Personal Experiences, And Some Are Hard To Imagine

In this Twitter thread, though, people are sharing their biggest job interview blunders that you weren’t warned about, but are so ridiculous that you shouldn’t need to be (even if some of these people ended up getting the job!) Others in the thread have had the misfortune of ending up with an interviewer that made them seriously reconsider applying for the position in the first place. Either way, these stories will make you feel better about the job interviews that weren’t your proudest moments and give you the courage to go to your next one knowing you can at least do better than this. Image credits: harriepw Image credits: harriepw Image credits: harriepw. 22 Odd Questions I Get Asked At Job Interviews. I am a graphic designer who work in NYC.

22 Odd Questions I Get Asked At Job Interviews

Since I was in college I have been on quite a few interviews for designer positions. I decided to draw the questions that the interviewers asked me when I went on those interviews. Some are funny but some are just too personal. If you have experienced the same as me, please give me an upvote or leave me a comment, thanks! 30 Jerk Bosses Shamed For Their Nasty Behavior. They say there’s no ‘I’ in ‘team’.

30 Jerk Bosses Shamed For Their Nasty Behavior

But some people are selfish, shortsighted, and seem keen to ruin everyone’s day for their own pleasure or gain. Naturally, we call these people jerks. While unpleasant to deal with, your average, run-of-the-mill jerk isn’t usually someone to fear. Man Can’t Help But Think He Played Small Part In Female Coworker’s Success By Not Actively Sabotaging Her Career. Business Etiquette At The Office. ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (17) ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ (25) TOP In a 2011 survey publish at the Monster.com blog, 71% of survey respondents found their coworker’s manners needing improvement or “downright rude.”

Business Etiquette At The Office

More than one-quarter of respondents’ co-workers fell into this downright rude category. In this guide to business etiquette in the office, we will show you what your coworkers dislike, how you can improve your manners and you can approach coworkers about problems. Do we save manners for our personal lives? And if we did, who can blame us? Stress management in the work place [infographic] 19 Amazing Vintage Photos That Show How People Worked Before AutoCAD. We here at Bored Panda really love finding some interesting facts from our past, preferably together with some vintage photos to illustrate them. This time we’d like to share with you how an essential profession – the drafting technician – looked like before computers began their reign.

A drafting technician may work in many spheres – from architecture to manufacturing and is responsible for engineering drafts, architecture drawings, and house plans. To put it simply – no structure is ever built without them. Technological advances cause some professions to cease to exist, but in the case of drafting technicians, it just made their desks smaller and tidier.

AutoCAD was released in 1982, and by 1994 as many as 750 training centers had been using it worldwide. A look at the demanding schedule of Elon Musk, who works in 5-minute slots, skips breakfast, and largely avoids emails. 10 Questions to Ask in a Job Interview. People Think Being A Veterinarian Is Just Playing With Cute Animals All Day, But I Also Get To Kill Them. Boss’ Brilliant Response To Employee Asking For Mental Health Day Off Goes Viral. A web developer named Madalyn Parker recently took a few days off from work to focus on her mental health.

Boss’ Brilliant Response To Employee Asking For Mental Health Day Off Goes Viral

When she got an email back from her boss about it, though, she was stunned by his response. Show Full Text Parker, who works for live chat software engineering company Olark, has been a vocal advocate for supportive workplaces since writing an emotional essay in 2015 about her harrowing battle with mental health issues and how they affect her career. Corporate culture often stigmatizes depression, anxiety and other mental disorders, despite the fact that peak mental performance is often essential to these kinds of jobs.

How to Make the Most of Your Last 10 Minutes at Work. Whether you skim a blog post, peruse files for work, or browse through a book, you most likely do some type of reading every day.

How to Make the Most of Your Last 10 Minutes at Work

But slogging through dense passages of text can be time-consuming, mentally exhausting, and hard on your eyes. If you want to read faster while maintaining reading comprehension, check out these seven tips. Viewing a film’s trailer before watching the movie gives you context and lets you know what to expect.

Why email kills creativity. As a marketer most of my career, I’ve been involved in countless creative projects.

Why email kills creativity

From web sites and logo designs to TV commercials and 3D animation, I’ve done it. Lifehack. Entrepreneurs lead a busy and overwhelming life, whether you’re just starting out or already leading a company – you know how much your time is worth to you.

lifehack

But do you know where your time goes? Turns out, most people don’t, we all end up staring at our phones way too often and wondering just how we spent all day working without really achieving much. With life getting out of hand daily, everyone wants more control over their time. How to Be Productive With Your Time. How to Deal with a Job You Don’t Like. Archie Comics CEO accused of discriminating against male employees.

The CEO of Archie Comics is being sued by a group of male employees for alleged sexual harassment and gender discrimination. According to court documents obtained by the New York Daily News, the employees — including the company’s president and editor-in-chief — say that Nancy Silberkleit acted in a hostile and “unstable” manner as co-CEO of the company, including regularly using the word “penis” in place of the names of her male employees. “[T]he word ‘penis’ became somewhat of a campaign slogan and her preferred method of referring to employees in lieu of their names,” according to the filing against Silberkleit. The lawsuit also alleges that Silberkleit brought members of the Hell’s Angels to the company’s New York office to intimidate employees, and frequently inquired about the location of a handgun she says her late husband kept at the office.

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In place of decisive action, it recommends listening. Action on Addiction - Action on Addiction. Obama, Explained - James Fallows. As Barack Obama contends for a second term in office, two conflicting narratives of his presidency have emerged. How to measure for a president: Temperament is a president’s most important attribute and the hardest to examine. Official White House Photo by Pete Souza/AFP/Getty Images. Barack Obama makes big decisions the same way George W. Bush did. Apple Genius Bar training manual: a brilliant, manipulative guide to customer service. Photo by Claudio Villa/Getty Images. School Janitor's Summer As Human Already A Distant Memory.

NORTH PLATTE, NE—Two weeks into the new school year, North Platte High School janitor Stan McCurdy's fond memories of his summer as a human being looked upon with dignity and respect have all but slipped away, sources reported Friday. "Now it almost seems like a dream, back in June when I was treated like a real person with the same feelings, worries, and aspirations as anyone else," the man, who for the next nine months will be addressed as "McDirty," said as he bent over to scrub a hardened chunk of feces off the wall of the boys restroom and tried to ignore the group of 14-year-olds who openly pointed at him and laughed.

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