Anyone who’s ever dabbled in online dating is intimately familiar with being ghosted. Suddenly and without explanation, your romantic interest ceases all contact, never to be heard from again. Sadly, anyone who’s ever conducted a protracted job search has received the same treatment from a potential employer....
In this installment of our “What Makes Me a…” column, we asked seven people what they really mean when they call you a “nice guy.” Rob Dick, Bounty Hunter School instructor: In my world, a “nice guy” is someone that treats the fugitive like a human being....
I can still picture the first time I was fired as if it happened an hour ago: I was working at a record store and had mistakenly sold an R-rated DVD to two girls who turned out to be 14 years old, and one of their parents...
Thirty-two-year-old Allie Knight is the rarest of specimens: a female, millennial long-haul truck driver. “I always wanted to drive the biggest and best anything,” she tells me from a boat in Hawaii, where she is on vacation with her other half. “Snowmobiles, four-wheelers, motorcycles, anything with an...
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...
Gemma and Robert Hartley had been living frugally for five years when he broke down and decided he couldn’t do it anymore. They’d reduced their overall debt, which include a mortgage, credit card debt and medical bills, from $130,000 to $105,000. And supposing their incomes continued to...
In this installment of our “What Makes Me a…” column, we asked 10 people what makes them think of someone as a “real funny guy.” … Tracey Sturgal, professor in communication studies at Marquette University: As a linguist, I’ve learned there are as many perspectives on humor...
It seems like there’s a kind of insurance for everything nowadays. Beyond auto insurance, homeowner’s insurance or life insurance, you can get death-by-laughter insurance (for comedians), body-part insurance (for athletes or entertainers) and even kidnapping and ransom insurance (if you’re worried about that sort of thing). But...
Few things are as satisfying as sliding into a bed on which the sheets have been made to look like a display model at Ikea. Despite this feeling, however, 59 percent of people don’t make their beds, according to a 2012 survey. In fact, if the study...
No matter what they try, some people can’t seem to stop themselves from being late. They’ve tried setting their clocks 10 minutes fast; their friends have tried giving them fake, earlier-than-you’re-actually-meeting meet-up times. Yet these people can still never get their life together. Why? “There’s no one reason...
People almost universally hate their banks. Stockbrokers — surprise! — often can’t be trusted. Wealth managers can be straight-up charlatans. It often feels like everyone is out to get your money, probably because most of them are. Which leads to the obvious question: Who can you trust with your money? Your...
First, the anecdotal evidence: Many dentists are noticing an increase in teeth grinding and clenching as a result of the general stress that most of us are currently feeling. “There’s always a high number of patients in my practice with bruxism [the technical name for teeth grinding]...