eHow: How to Deal With a Mean Boss
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"Having a mean boss can make a job harder and your quality of life worse. When you are not in a position to quit, there are ways to deal with this difficult situation. Read on to learn ways to cope with a mean and difficult boss...." 091213
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MSN Encarta: Top 10 Business Buzzwords "Whether you office from home or home from office, you've probably heard some of these best-of-breed words and phrases unleashed at you and wondered what exactly your boss or coworker was talking about. Whether humorous or just plain annoying, you'll probably hear some of these dynamic phrases from time to time. This list will help you translate, and maybe even repurpose a few words to grow your own business buzz vocabulary..."
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MSN Careers: 10 Things You Should Never Do at Work "From the e-mails we “forget” to return to the voice mails we “never received,” telling little white lies has become a very real part of our workplace routine. For the most part, we get away with it. After all, we tell ourselves, who are we really hurting? Anything beyond the occasional fib, however, and the lines get blurred..." 080104
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New York Times: Unhappy? Self-Critical? Maybe You’re Just a Perfectionist "Just about any sports movie, airport paperback or motivational tape delivers a few boilerplate rules for success. Believe in yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. Never quit. Don’t accept second best. Above all, be true to yourself..." 071204
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About.com: Dealing With Difficult People "Most people have pet peeves about coworkers. And, why not? Even relatively sane and likeable people do things that can drive their coworkers to distraction. And, some people are just plain difficult people - all of the time. Learn how to deal with the difficult people in your organization. Difficult people can be managed..." 071124
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Brazen Careerist: How to turn a bad boss into a good one "Want to deal with a bad boss? First, stop complaining. Unless your boss breaks the law, you don’t have a bad boss, you have a boss you are managing poorly. Pick on your boss all you want, but if you were taking responsibility for your career, you wouldn’t let your boss’s problems bring you down..." 071019
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About.com: Stop Being Miserable at Work "Are you miserable at work? Do you never feel good about getting up and heading to work on Monday? Do you feel unchallenged, unhappy, or not in control? Is your boss the worst? Do your coworkers engage in unjustifiable complaining all day long? Is no contribution ever good enough? 070820
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Science: A Mind for Sociability "Before forming relationships, we normally size up other people to see how trustworthy they are, thanks to an evolutionary reorganization in the brain..."
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GlobeLife Work: Off to work? Don't forget your temper "Have a 400-page report to read and analyze in the next 45 minutes? Need to make a decision on a huge contract? Struggling to figure out the best argument to win a pay raise? Try getting pissed off..."
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FORBES: The most annoying habit "Smelly lunches can't compete with the No. 1 annoying office habit, according to a survey..."
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MSN Health & Fitness: Beware the overshare in everyday conversations "Like so many of us, Dan Estabrook never even saw it coming. It was a normal day at work when his office manager called him into her office for a normal-sounding meeting — until she unloaded a not-so-normal nugget of information..."
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MSN Money: Escape the rat race "Ways to slow down and enjoy life -- even before retirement. Do you want to downsize your life or even drop out? Here are 22 tips for making that possible..."
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Hanana Smoothie: So it’s finally happened "Co-worker has resigned. Her last day is sometime in mid- June so she can finish up a project that ends then. For those of you who read my rantings of a few months ago, this news is somewhat of a relief to me in a lot of ways. Yes, her leaving is most likely going to drop a number of projects I don’t need directly into my lap at the height of summer crunch-time. ..."
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