Most of us work more than we live, which is to say we spend considerably more time at the office and with our coworkers than we do with the human beings we actually want in our lives. It also means that the stressors and anxieties of work...
You’ve been saving plenty of money for retirement, haven’t you? Yeah… me neither. That tropical private island I assumed I’d own someday? Probably not happening! Never mind living like a baller in retirement age. At this point, I’m more worried about just having enough money to subsist...
Every workplace has a name for them: The kind and virtuous majorette who regularly takes one for the team, goes that extra mile, is a dutiful, dependable, delightful co-worker — and gets roundly scorned for their trouble. For the singing Salzburg nuns trying to solve a problem like an...
Our hardworking society oftentimes encourages workers to choose between their careers and their significant others. After all, to your CEO, less time spent with your partner is more time spent at your desk. Which presents the question: When should you choose work over your relationship? Relationships expert...
Humans evolved to stand upright and outrun their predators, so it’s no wonder sitting sedentary in a halogen-lit office is ruining the species. But it’s not just your lower back and general outlook on life slowly being crippled by your 9-to-5. It’s also your butt. Hemorrhoids. Irritation....
Unfortunately, there are no puberty-adjacent symptoms that correspond with getting your life together. You don’t start growing hair under your arms when it’s time to quit trying to make it as an actor, and you probably don’t start throwing temper tantrums at your parents when it’s time to buy...
“Death by memo”: It’s a complaint often heard in the workplace, when great ideas get stomped into dust by numbing protocols and procedure. But for all its reputation as the last word in banal bureaucratic buzz-kill, the internal memorandum has often, in its history, carried actual life-or-death...
Americans have finally gotten the memo to take more vacation, but they’re still doing it wrong. Recent research from Project: Time Off finds that we are at peak vacation usage, the likes of which haven’t been seen since 2010. In 2017, we took an average of 17...
If there’s one thing all humans can agree on, it’s that washing the dishes is miserable. So much so, in fact, that many professional dishwashers admit that the only way to get through their shifts is to get messed up first. “I’ve been washing dishes for 3 years...
According to a recent survey conducted by sleep tips website SleepZoo, nearly two-thirds of Americans have work-related stress dreams. “The findings aren’t surprising since people dream about what’s important to them,” Deirdre Leigh Barrett, a psychologist at Harvard Medical School, told Today. “Work both occupies a huge...
Potty Talk is a one-panel comic about the funny thoughts, observations and fears men have in the bathroom. This week’s is from illustrator Burton Durand. Check out his Instagram here.
Planning a new career move? How’s that resume looking? To make it competitive in today’s job market, you might want to think about adding a couple of competencies to that list of generic skills everyone includes. For example: Alongside, “I thrive on pressure,” “I’m a committed team...
