Still being in my 30's, I use this one simple rule for planning my future social security benefits: Don’t count on social security benefits. I have no faith that it can survive the baby boomers, so I’m just assuming all the money I’m throwing into the system will either see a negative return or just be gone completely…

I have people skills!

You come up with an alternative, before you get there. Money always works. The commute, more interesting work, whatever. No need to drag your still current boss through the mud.

Any tips for job seekers trying to relocate cross country? I currently live in Idaho, but would preferably like to move to the DC Metro Area or other Mid Sized- Large Cities on the east coast to be close to family and friends. But I struggle #1) getting interviews #2) explaining why I want a change.

I was going to say “The IT Director had an issue?” then I realized, the odds are good that the director was never an IT guy, which would explain why they were able to rise up. If I told that exact statement to a senior IT guy, or pretty much anyone who had been one, it would have been understood without issue.

Question. And this actually happened to me, but it worked out for the best. I had a really crappy job situation going on. Went on an interview, kind of laid back atmosphere, just me and the director of IT in his office. He pulls the “so why are you looking for a new job?” card. But also tells me to be honest. Ok, so I…

I worked for a guy who loved saying different versions of “How can I help you accomplish that?” And he meant it. But it made me think about how to get the task done by myself. I certainly didn’t want to tell him what to do for me.

I would agree with your line of thinking here. The problem that Robert Williams is describing is not simply one about email exchanges, it’s one that is applicable to all kinds of “getting things done” situations, both in work and in life outside work. If you’re constantly just saying “What do you need from me?” in an…

I don’t think this would just work with clients I think this would work when dealing with your manager as well. Explaining a problem and recommending a solution.

CAME HERE TO SAY THAT.

Never trust tech guys named McAfee.

And so, in summation...

I seriously cannot understand why zendaya is photoshopped ever. Her original pictures always look so perfect that you’d think those were the photoshopped ones. she’s gorgeous and has such a banging bod.

It’s very problematic that they’re Photoshopping her to look skinnier. I am more bothered by the fact that they’re taking her skin color and trying to make her look like she’s tan as opposed to mixed. They're putting some awful Snooki filter over her and it completely changes her natural skin color.

I’ll be honest. I didn’t read closely enough and I thought the right image in the first set was the after image, because I thought they were trying to give her some curves.

I think what really alarms me from this is that she’s already “acceptably” skinny in the original photos. And the degree to which they Photoshopped her is actually a really shitty job—it just looks like they squished the “fat” parts of the image in, without considering how that would warp the rest of the image. C-.

That was really good!!

I just started a new job about three weeks ago. I am in training and will be for another week. The weird thing is I feel REALLY comfortable starting to do tasks however, the boss wants me to just shadow people for a month. So I have been sitting behind people watching them and sitting at my desk on sites trying to…

Are you absolutely SURE none of your employees are using these tricks, or similar ones, on you? :)

ALWAYS carry a folder or more than 1 in your hands. Walking somewhere = screwing off. Walking somewhere with a folder in hand = go getter that is busy! It's been this way for decades... IF you really want to mess with them, walk with a folder and a rolled up set of building or engineering plans... It usually…