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Oh, how fun it was.

Locked down and locked in, we suddenly had an easy, breezy way to communicate. It was called Zoom, and it meant that, like our Neanderthal ancestors, gathered around the fire, we could sit around a high-tech campfire and share stories without ever leaving our caves.

Too bad the fire went out.

"Video-call-induced ...Read more

In last week's sermonette, we discussed when it's time to quit your job. This week, we will discuss when it's time to not quit your job.

Confused? Good! I'm doing my job.

Also doing her job is Alison Doyle, who covered the matter of "to quit or not to quit" in a matched pair of articles on the job site The Balance Careers.

As is apparent in...Read more

Should you quit your job?

It's a question that's providing job security for writers of employment advice, myself included. Studying up on the topic, I found articles about the seven signs you should quit, the eight signs you should quit, the 15 signs you should quit and the 22 signs you should quit.

Of course, you really only need one sign ...Read more

Let me ask you a question: How many questions will you be able to answer successfully at your next job interview?

It's a fair question.

You've been locked down and locked. You haven't been looking for a new job, and if a new job is looking for you, it's having a tough time finding you. But now, with vaccines starting to flow -- or starting ...Read more

You need one! You deserve one! By virtue of your hard work and steadfast allegiance to your company's vision statement, no one could deny you one.

Know what I'm talkin' about?

An assistant.

How wonderful will it be when you finally have your assistant? The jobs you don't want to handle will seamlessly drip down from your to-do list and land...Read more

It's 5 p.m. Do you know where your workday went?

Many people consider the end of the workday as an appropriate time to look back and decide whether it was a highly productive use of eight precious hours or an irredeemable catastrophe.

Maybe this is you. Or, maybe, you know after lunch that everything is going south and that no matter how hard ...Read more

Tired of your current position? Don't apply for another job. Apply to be another boss.

You may not be very good at what you do, but you are supremely excellent at telling other people what to do. And when a deadline is blown or an important project goes sideways, you always know exactly who to blame for it. Even when it's you who should be ...Read more

Today's column stubbornly refuses to answer this question: Both of the approved COVID-19 vaccines are effective, but which vaccine is more stylish?

That's the question I have: Fancy Pfizer or Mid-Century Moderna? It doesn't matter which one you get, I suppose, because both are incredibly wonderful and miraculous. Still, I can't help but wonder:...Read more

The end is coming.

For this column, the end is 750 words away, give or take a preposition or two.

For your enforced hibernation from the world, the end is coming closer, but, if you're like most people, it's still one or two vaccinations away.

The end is a good time to start thinking about a beginning, or so I decided after reading "How to ...Read more

If you thought it was strange to confine yourself to your home for eight long months, refusing to interact with anyone who wasn't on a Zoom screen, get ready for an experience in strangeness the likes of which you haven't seen, well, for eight long months.

I'm talking about working with real people in real life. 3D, baby -- 3-doggone-D.

It ...Read more

By the time you read this, 2020 will be almost over.

Really, it will.

I know there have been many people demanding we do a redo -- just turn back the calendar to Jan, 1, 2020, and let the year play out again.

I think it's a great idea.

Once we've restarted 2020, we'll simply move 2021 to 2022, 2022 to 2023 and so on. It's not only a great ...Read more

You knew it was too good to be true.

The work-alone-at-home experience was just too wonderful to last.

The peace. The quiet. The ability to sleep in and sneak into Zoom meetings still wearing your jam-jams. The magical calm of never having Trevor from Marketing pop up at your desk at 9 a.m. to tell you that the three-week deadline for that ...Read more

The holiday season is just around the corner, and that means the office holiday party will soon be here.

Truly, it's the happiest time of the year.

The CEO dons a Santa Claus suit. This year, two pillows will be required to create that Santa belly. The CEO spends so much time on their Peloton bike their body mass index is a minus 10.

As for...Read more