GIVE ADVICE ON CAREER

If people at your workplace aren't pulling their weight. How do you respond?

Right, mum hates her job and is setting up her own business. Ideas?

She is a real people person, witty, intelligent and a great mum. She hates housework and paperwork, but I can run that side for her. We were thinking Ann Summers type parties, or she coulf easily be a column journalist but doesn't know where to start. Oh, and she's 53 with some great stories to tell but books don't earn authors much.

Update: November 07, 2009.
Ace ideas. Sadly she's not very good with pressure from people (so dealing with stressed brides would be a bad idea!) but I like the boutique idea. We don't have much cash from dad's business and the bank won't loan to her because she's never had any credit to build a history (we looked into it) so low start-up costs would be best. What do people want in a recession?

I need an airport hotel or one near with shuttle in Atlanta

Any recs? Cheap and clean is fine..it's for 10 PM - 7 AM only...

WHICH WOULD YOU CHOOSE?

Suppose you were given two choices:

1) You could have a job that pays a million bucks a year, BUT...your work has absolutely NO impact of any kind upon anybody.

OR...

2) You were to discover a cure for Type-1 Diabetes, BUT...earn only enough money to pay your living expenses, and maybe have a little spending cash left over.

Which would you pick?

When you were a kid, what were you most likely to want to be when you grew up?

Are you anywhere close to being in that profession as an adult?

Do "you" ask or tell?

Last week I had to go the hospital and have a yearly scan done to ensure that my cancer is still in remission. I told my boss about it well in advance and then reminded her two days prior to my appointment. She had a duck fit because I "told" her I was going to my appointment rather then "asking" her if I could. WTF? Meanwhile she "tells" me Monday morning that she's taking the rest of the week off to prepare for her daughter's wedding. That just irks me when someone does something the same way I've done it but yet has the nerve to respond to me like I've done something wrong. Ughh.

Idiot Co-worker help needed!!

I use to be friends with a loser (felt sorry for him as no one talked to him, now I know why...)So after he made 2 other buddies, he started bad mouthing me to everyone. Fine, but now his new thing is to STARE at me. We work in a store and this is getting to a point where I want to quit. He does it to my girl friends there too. He is trying to intimidate us of course. He got the job cuz his dad works for the company in another store...I need to deal with this on my own--so come one give me some good or nasty advice!

Update: November 06, 2009.
Joybird reminded me of the cameras....everywhere. I am going to write "I want ______ to quit staring at me and the other women here, in big letters on a piece of paper and lay it on my work area for the camera to see tomorrow!!

When a company makes a diciplinary action upon an employee......

How much time is typically given for correction before termination?

Update: November 06, 2009.
I was given exactly one week to not make more then a 2% error on my work and NOT call into work. I have missed 2 days of work in 90 days from being in the hospital. I've NEVER been on any corrective/diciplinary action in my life!

13 YEARS OF DEVOTION AND I HAD TO BE ESCORTED...

I WAS LET GO FROM MY JOB AFTER 13 YEARS TODAY. THEN WAS WATCHED AS I GATHERED ALL MY PERSONAL BELONGINGS AND WAS NOT ALLOWED TO SPEAK OR CAUSE A "SCENE" AS THEY CALLED IT, THEN ESCORTED TO MY CAR FOR FEAR OF A RIOT.

WTHF???

THANKS FOR BUSTING MY ASS FOR THEIR PROFIT SO THEY CAN CUT OUT SENIOR EMPLOYEES AND THEN MAKE THEM FEEL LIKE CRIMINALS WHILE EVERYONE WHISPERS AND STARES....

BASTARDS.
I CANNOT STOP CRYING. JUST BOUGHT MY FIRST HOUSE, AM A SINGLE PARENT, AND UNEMPLOYMENT IN OUR CITY IS NOW AT 18%...

ANYONE WHO THINKS THEIR JOB OR FIELD IS SAFE IS W-R-O-N-G!!!!

I WORKED IN HEALTHCARE, AND WAS THE ONLY ONE WHO DEVELOPED MANY PROGRAMS AND KNEW THE APPLICATIONS USED AT OUR HOSPITAL/CLINICS.


ADVICE TO EVERYONE: BETTER START CUTTING BACK AND LEARN TO LIVE ON A DIME. EVERYONE IS EXPENDABLE (WHAT I WAS TOLD ON THE WAY OUT...)

Update: November 06, 2009.
Sorry for the all CAPS thing.....and also that I do not have stars for each and every one of you.....at least it is Friday......but I am here alone and most of my friends were from work.....the rest have all had to move away to find work.... I will accept all hugs aforementioned and think I will have a glass of wine (just one, I know how that can get when you are down...). One lottery ticket will be bought Saturday. For good measure.....and a little hope. Everytime I read about those winners they are all unemployed and on the brink. I am a sure winner.....

Let's say this is your job ...

You sit at a desk all day and do next to nothing but the job is secure and the pay is decent.


Could you do this every day and for how long?


If not, why?


P.S. Your internet access is limited (i.e. most of the websites you would like to visit are blocked) ...

Update: November 06, 2009.
Funny, I don't remember asking what *I* should do. In fact, I don't even remember saying this was my situation. Thanks to those who actually answered the question ... "Could you personally do this job"?