My first few weeks in college I felt like the total weirdo because I had a scholarship that required me to keep a 3.5 gpa and no safety net, so I felt like it was super-important to be on time for every AM class and keep totally on top of studying and being well-rested. And it seemed like everyone was partying all the…

So, I'm curious, in your opinion if my reaction to people on a team seemingly not wanting to be part of the team is not good, what should my reaction be?

Yep, that's me. I work for someone in recruiting as one of 2 survival jobs. I'm not a FT recruiter myself, though I do some consulting.

You sound like a cool person in a tough spot, and I like how you responded to my comment which was a little judge-y (I admit it!) with an explanation instead of going ballistic. I have a lot of friends in recruiting and in IT, and in IT recruiting. I'm Denise Ivanoff and I'm on Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter — I…

Also, interestingly, none of the things that I have discussed doing, which basically all fall under trying to build rapport with team members, fall under the Gen X criticisms. However, blaming the Gen X member for taking issue with Millennial rudeness, and attempting to reframe a genuine interest in trying to get to…

But if Gen X preferences and tendencies are the only ones that count on a team, it isn't really a "team", is it?

So then it's basically the problem that it is an entry-level job. Your only hopes are to be promoted, if there's room for that, or find a higher ranking job that requires your qualifications in a different company.

If someone wants more than an entry-level salary, they first need to prove that they are able to do the job of the person above them.

The teamwork thing strikes me as funny for two reasons:
1. As an Xer, at least where I went to school, teamwork was called cheating, so I never learned how to do it properly. In the job place, I am happy to work as a team member but I really want it to be made clear what my role within the team is.

I have been using the Sleep Cycle app and making extensive use of its "notes" function. The single biggest things that I seem to be able to get the best quality sleep are: read in bed before sleeping, shower before bed, and use air conditioning if it's warm.

Have you tried fostering a dog? If you foster a dog through a rescue, you don't pay an adoption fee and they will pay any vet bills. Some of them will provide for all expenses. On the downside, you would have to give up the dog once someone showed up who could pay the adoption fee and take over expenses, but on the…

TBH, Android killing off its physical keyboard is what made me decide I might as well get the iPhone. iPhone's autocorrect is not even comparable to SwiftKey, but I really love some of the apps like Drafts and SleepCycle.

If this is available on Sprint when my iPhone kicks the bucket or simply becomes obsolete, I will definitely consider switching. Doesn't matter if it's 2000, 20, or 20000 jobs in America in the manufacturing sector, if they make a good quality product at least PARTLY here, I want to support it.

I went to one of the ten worst high school districts in the country (according to a Time magazine article) for preparing students for college, and I am pleased to say that I had some exceptional teachers and I ended up attending a selective college on a full tuition merit-based scholarship and eventually receiving a…

Once I went to a county fair in Texas with a couple of friends who brought almost no money and were hungry. I had very little money and we shared our food. The woman, who was a church worship leader and very very religious, stopped by a United Way booth. They were giving away free candy bars if you took a little…

But no healthy person can't go two hours without sipping it.

I would not hesitate to return a used item if, during said use, I realized it did not work as advertised or was of a lower quality than someone would reasonably expect at that price point. I'll send a new item back if it works perfectly but has a scratch on it, because I expect things with scratches to be discounted…

I don't buy snacks or sodas at the movies and I don't sneak them in either. I am not addressing this to you or anyone in particular (have to reply to someone though), but I really don't understand people not being able to comfortably get through 2-3 hours without eating and drinking. I know we need water, but the…

The Yankees have us over a barrel. My husband can't live without his games. We tried going "on vacation" and getting by with other services when the Yankees were not playing, but the problem with that is, it means we only have full-service TV when it is time for the end of the season for most series, and then a bunch…

I did a monologue audition today for an agent. I haven't been doing well with them, in spite of coaching and rehearsing them to death, as one might assume by the fact that I, as yet, have no agent.