Ah, the annual company-wide holiday party, where any semblance of professionalism between your colleagues goes out the window and that one person from finance, without exception, drunkenly professes their undying love for their coworker before crying and passing out on the bathroom floor. Sounds… uncomfortable. But is...
Winter is upon us, and that means one thing: an influx of socializing opportunities that you can screw up by taking someone you’re dating, and then proceeding to ditch them for three hours while you talk it up with all your pals, get hammered, and ignore them....
Picking out presents for friends and family can be precarious, sure. Picking out a present for you boss, though? The person who decides your workload and provides your paycheck? That’s a whole new ballgame. On the one hand, you want to impress them — on the other...
Few workplace activities open up the office to awkwardness and outrage quite like Secret Santa. No matter how many guidelines are put into place, at least one person is bound to bring something that would send even the most relaxed HR department into a panic, and somehow,...
When you’re a dad, parenting questions often come up that you struggle to find an answer to. Since other parents are the worst and Google will send you down a rabbit hole of paralyzing, paranoid terror, we’re here to help by putting those questions to the experts....
Everyone’s got that one man in their life: Well-groomed, decent style, no major red flags, and yet, there’s something that’s holding them back from putting it all together — or, better put, a lack of something. He doesn’t smell. No, I don’t mean “smell” like what a...
Mistook your monthly magazine for a pack of One Wipe Charlies and flushed it down the toilet? No worries, here’s the online version! In this edition: The Christmas Elf’s Guide to Easy Gift-Giving The Festive Guide to Dropping Hints (Without Looking Greedy) How to Buy For the...
Why do dudes suck so much at buying Christmas presents? Santa Claus is a man, and he’s amazing at the gift game. The fact is, women are left to handle the vast majority of Christmas shopping alone, and it’s flagrantly unfair. Some men simply assume they’ll do...
White Elephant; Yankee Swap; Dirty Santa. Whatever you want to call it, there’s a decent chance you’ll be attending some variation of a gag gift exchange in the next couple of weeks — an event that can be oddly stressful and strangely competitive. All eyes are locked...
As your relationship flourishes, so should your penchant for giving exceptional gifts. Unfortunately, though, some of us are just plain terrible at choosing suitable presents, no matter how much thought and effort we put into them. For anyone who falls into this category and needs help picking...
Every year it’s the same thing: You know you’ve got to get a gift for those difficult people on your Christmas list, but — despite the fact you’ve known them forever — you have no idea what to get. Generally, after weeks of trying to forget about...
The time has finally come: This Christmas will be the first I’ll be spending with my partner’s family, and not only her close family — every last aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, grandma, grandpa and that one weird lady who’s somehow lumped into the bunch, too. Which has...