Nothing makes the doldrums of the workday pass more quickly than a little excitement, and what’s more exciting than texting sexually explicit hopes and dreams to your significant other? “I can’t wait to **** your **** in a **** and then **** with your *****,” you type,...
There’s a seemingly endless number of reasons you might want to hurt your boss. Maybe they gave you more work without any extra compensation? Maybe they text you at all hours of the night, including weekends? Maybe they just called you an ***hole? Whatever the reason may...
Have you seen how expensive college is getting these days? If you’re a parent, setting up a college fund for your kid is more important than ever, unless your plan is to cross your fingers for a sports or academic scholarship. But if you’re not forcing your...
Republican Virginia Congressman Thomas Garrett has a radical solution for the nation’s student-loan debt crisis: Forgive people’s student-loan debts, so long as they agree to delay when they start collecting Social Security benefits. Specifically, Garrett wants to grant debt holders $550 in student loan forgiveness for each...
The tech startup era has gifted us with an abundance of ridiculous job titles, including Chief Happiness Officer, Hacker in Residence and Galactic Viceroy of Research Excellence. The absurdity on display here would have you believe job titles are superficial (meaningless, even!), but for many professionals, that...
If you’re a halfway competent employee, you’ll hear a variation of the following phrase multiple times throughout your career: “You’ve done such an amazing job on [extra thing you did] that we’d like to add [more of same extra thing] to your responsibilities. Keep up the good...
Since it’s every person for themselves, freelancing can be a tough gig. But on your tax return, should you just be yourself (in the legal sense), or should you form some kind of business entity (insert wacky — or meaningful — name of LLC here)? “Incorporating” can offer you important tax...
For more than seven years, I worked for one of the most popular men’s magazines in the country. Our editorial offices were like somebody’s fantasy of a frat house: Models on casting calls; expensive toys like drones hand-delivered to us for testing (i.e., playing with until we...
When I was a dumb 22-year-old working my first job out of college, I got assigned to sit within 10 feet of the startup’s founder/CEO. It was miserable. Aside from absolutely hating the work I was doing, I had to sit under the watchful eye of the guy who...
The average American full-time employee spent 6 hours and 24 minutes per day working or commuting to work in 2016. That’s 44 hours and 52 minutes per week (for reference, there are 168 hours in a week). And more damningly, that includes the weekends. But let’s be...
I saw a post on Reddit’s super-popular personal finance forum earlier today that made my eyes bleed and my heart cry. “Friend declined pay raise because he’d ‘make less money,’” the post reads. That much is pretty self-explanatory, but to briefly summarize: A man relays the story...
We’re all faintly aware that when you’re out on your ass and the bills are piling up, bankruptcy is an option for escaping the mountain of debt. But how does it work? What are the pros and cons? And does it really get you off the hook?...