Workplace Taboos

Women, Swearing And The Workplace

CNN | Posted 11.12.2011

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The media has had a field day with the email ousted Yahoo CEO Carol Bartz sent to 14,000 employees of Yahoo notifying them that she'd "just been fire...

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Workers Memorial Day

Sec. Hilda Solis | Posted 05.25.2011

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Today we remember those killed on the job, recognize the tremendous pain left behind by their deaths, and we recommit ourselves to ensuring that future tragedies are prevented.

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Setting Up Your Co-Workers

Nicole Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Co-Workers, Career Advice, Careers, Love, Dating, Office Romance, Relationships, Workplace, Romance, Workplace Taboos, Style News

If you decide to brave the matchmaking mayhem, make sure the conditions are right (and be prepared for an inevitable awkward moment or two).

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7 Facebook Status Updates Not to Make at Work

Nicole Williams | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Business, Facebook, Social Networking, Work, Bad Bosses, Blackberry, Social-Faux-Pas, Employees, Social Networking Addiction, Social Networking Sites, Good-Jobs, Lousy-Bosses, Ferris Bueller, Internet Politics, Facebook Status, Facebook Addiction, Crazy Bosses, Workplace Taboos, Healthy Living News

It's great if you have a fabulous job where you get to travel, get chauffeured around in fancy cars, and take meetings with bigwigs. But it's a lot cooler if you don't broadcast it.

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When Comedy Meets Workplace Diversity

Natalie Holder-Winfield | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abercrombie & Fitch, Insensitivity, Business, Workplace, Comedy, Multiculturalism, Diversity, Ruben Navarrette, Workplace Discrimination, Racial Discrimination, George Lopez, N-Word, Comedy Central, Stand-Up Comedy, Dave Chappelle, Workplace Taboos, Entertainment News

The same slurs, epithets, and offensive language that comics use to get laughs can create disrespect in the workplace, school and in other social settings.

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Seven Secrets to Missing a Meeting

Marc Hershon | Posted 05.25.2011

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Your key to getting more of your time back is to focus on those passive meetings...then start finding ways to skip them.

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5 Things Never to Say to Your Boss

Nicole Williams | Posted 05.25.2011

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Getting drunk in front of co-workers is a major don't, but if it does happen, then don't brag about it the next day. Remember, your boss is not your BFF, your mother, or your therapist.

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Signs of Intelligent Life

Gerald Sindell | Posted 11.17.2011

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Do you care if people see you as intelligent? If you do, then you might want to practice a few simple things that can make it more likely that people will grock you as smart.

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Everything You Learn in College is Wrong

Auren Hoffman | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Work-Life Balance, Lifestyle, College, Workplace Taboos, College Graduates, Healthy Living News

In college you eat huge amounts of instant noodles and cereal. In the real world, you spend your entire paycheck on Whole Foods and tofu.

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Simon Cowell: A True Friend

James M. Lynch | Posted 05.25.2011

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A true friend is one who will tell you the truth whether or not you want to hear it, whether it might endanger the status quo of the friendship or not.

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Workplace Taboos: Are You Guilty?

CareerBuilder.com | Rachel Zupek | Posted 11.17.2011

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Ever think there's shady stuff goin' down in your office? Be thankful you don't work in "The Office's" Scranton, Penn. branch of Dunder-Mifflin. The h...

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6 Workplace Taboos: Are You Guilty?

CareerBuilder.com | Rachel Zupek | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Office Etiquette, What Not to Do at Work, Careerbuilder, Workplace Taboos, Healthy Living News

Ever think there's shady stuff goin' down in your office? Be thankful you don't work in "The Office's" Scranton, Penn. branch of Dunder-Mifflin. The h...

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