Eve Tahmincioglu is a columnist for MSNBC.com and MSN where she writes the popular "Your Career" column. She also writes a blog at www.CareerDiva.net, and she's a regular contributor to the New York Times and BusinessWeek's SmallBiz magazine. She also writes the entrepreneur and small business blog for MSNBC at yourbiz.msnbc.msn.com. She has been covering workplace and labor issues for nearly 20 years and is author of "From the Sandbox to the Corner Office: Lessons Learned on the Journey to the Top".

She started out covering a host of labor issues at Women's Wear Daily and United Press International, and then was lucky enough to get the auto beat at the Wilmington News Journal where she kept on top of the ups and downs of Chrysler and General Motors auto plants. She went on to cover telecommunications and workplace for the St. Petersburg Times.

Blog Entries by Eve Tahmincioglu

Tweet Your Trysts Not Your Cysts

Posted November 5, 2009 | 11:54 AM (EST)


I don't mind if you tweet about bowl movements or your latest sexual escapades, but why would you disclose information about your health, or your family members', or a friend's health on Twitter or any other social networking site?

Lately I've noticed a disturbing trend. Many of you are baring...

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Would You Want Michael Vick as a Coworker?

40 Comments | Posted August 14, 2009 | 10:10 AM (EST)


There's a double standard in this country when it comes to an employee with a criminal record.

If you're Michael Nobody who robbed the grocery store and spent time in jail for it, you'll have a hell of a time finding a job when you get out.

If you're Michael...

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Would Donne Have Tweeted His Trysts?

2 Comments | Posted July 27, 2009 | 02:37 PM (EST)


The affirmation that I was addicted to Twitter came on a cold Friday afternoon. My husband and I both work from home on Fridays and typically we say few words to each other as I type away writing my columns, and he types away writing code for his latest IT...

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Time for banking and auto workers to stage a sit-in

Posted December 12, 2008 | 03:28 PM (EST)


Everyone thought that the 200 plus workers at a Chicago door and window factory were so quaint, staging an old-fashioned sit-in in today's all-about-me cyber age. But they got what they wanted baby -- the severance and vacation they were owed.

Maybe it's time for employees in the banking...

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Is Corporate America Addicted to Layoffs?

Posted December 8, 2008 | 02:27 PM (EST)


Many of the nations' companies are in a recessionary frenzy and workers are the ones getting screwed.

Corporations are cutting thousands of jobs and slashing benefits but is there any real rhyme or reason to the employee bloodbath.

Just today, Dow Chemical Co. said Monday it will slash 5,000 full-time...

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Let Sarah Take Her Kids on Work Trips!

Posted October 22, 2008 | 03:52 PM (EST)


If women are going to avoid becoming road kill on the Mommy Track, things are going to have to change when it comes to what we're willing to give our leaders in politics and in Corporate America.

Sarah Palin wants to bring her kids on work trips...

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So What If Obama Were a Muslim?

Posted March 4, 2008 | 06:19 PM (EST)


Many years ago my father told me a poignant story about when he first came to America from Istanbul, Turkey.

Having grown up a Christian, Greek man in Istanbul he had experienced his share of prejudice. But it was all about religion.

In the...

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Workers Should RSS Feed Supreme Court Decisions

Posted February 22, 2008 | 02:21 PM (EST)


This year, the Supreme Court justices are taking on a host of cases that will impact many employees in this country.

So, don't just turn the page when you see headlines like this:

"Top Court Allows Suit Over 401(K)"

That was a headline in the New...

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We Need Co-CEO Households

Posted November 20, 2007 | 03:41 PM (EST)


Working women let the laundry pile up. That was basically the finding of a recent study on women and housework.

This is not shocking news by any stretch of the imagination but for some reason academics find it's something important to study.

Every one...

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Autoworkers Go Quietly into the Bad Night

Posted November 5, 2007 | 10:16 PM (EST)


Never have so many American, unionized autoworkers given up so much with so little of a fight.


During contract negotiations where the United Auto Workers faced declining wages for new members and the threat of plant closings, brief, token strikes were held at both General Motors and...

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Obesity Epidemic Among CEO Pay

Posted November 1, 2007 | 05:30 PM (EST)


It's like that scene from Morgan Spurlock's Supersize Me. You known, when he throws up because his digestive system just can't take another Big Mac.

That appears to be what's happening among the nation's CEOs.

They are puking up the super fat paychecks they've...

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