Despite what appears to be a steadily declining unemployment rate, the actual percentage of working-age Americans who have a job — or who are actively looking for one — continues to slump. This might sound counterintuitive: How can the unemployment rate drop if less and less people are...
We all sleep through our alarm every so often, and when this happens, many of us attempt to make up for lost time by speeding to work and honking at EVERY MORON along the way. But does speeding really get us to our destination any faster? Not...
Thanksgiving is upon us. But ’tis not yet the season of Black Friday, Cyber Monday and a month-long, crazy mess at every store in town: ’Tis instead the season of actually feeling thankful for all the important, nonmaterial stuff we usually take for granted, and of thinking about...
It takes money to make money, right? That’s usually true (unless you live a life of crime). But you’re going to want to retire one day, and you know you should be investing (…don’t you?). Yes, “investing” — which takes a lot of money, or at least,...
Scientifically speaking, you’re more likely to sit on your balls in the summer than, say, in the winter. That’s because, as MEL’s Miles Klee has already noted, along with the phenomenon of summer penis, summer balls hang lower than their winter equivalent because they’re trying to stay...
Note to working men: Don’t be nice, don’t show empathy, don’t be vulnerable, don’t be modest, don’t be a feminist and don’t you dare cry. Put another way, just don’t do anything that someone may interpret as characteristic of a good human, unless you want to lose...
In March 1932, the multimillionaire George Eastman — founder of the Kodak Company and the man who, with his innovations in cameras and film, brought photography to the masses — took a pistol from a drawer next to his bed, and shot himself through the heart. By...
Recently, a number of states (Oregon, New York and Massachusetts among them) have made it illegal for a company to ask a job candidate about their salary history. The law has been heralded as a way to close the gender pay gap, but the benefits will be...
What the hell can you actually buy with less than a buck these days? It’s not a rhetorical question: Lots of people apparently wanna know, because a quick Google search reveals numerous websites that actually list the sort of stuff you can get for less than a dollar. (tl;dr: Don’t...
Your former colleague Ralph asks you to recommend him for a job he is interviewing for at a new company. You like this person. In fact, you’d go so far as to consider him a friend. You often attended happy hour together when you were coworkers, and...
Earlier this year, I received a phone call at work from my mom letting me know that my grandpa had died. I wasn’t sure how to behave, because no one ever talks about how to handle grief and loss in a professional environment. I managed, at least,...
Deregulation: We hear about it all the time from both sides of the political spectrum. And to hear each side’s opinion of it, fewer laws regulating companies and industries is either the best or the worst thing ever. It’ll take the shackles off the economy, and we’ll...