Steve Jones - SSC Editor (7/25/2012)

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mtucker-732014 (7/23/2012)

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My recent experience was a rating in which my manager told me (and was obviously embarrassed to do so) that the reason he wasnt...

Stephen,

This reminds me of a performance review I once had several years ago where a manager actually brought up in my review the primary reason he was not giving me...

Thats a crazy system!

If you did have a group of people to begin with that had people who were 1 and 2, after you had weeded them out you would...

The implied rule is that the bigger the risk the bigger the potential pay off. This is not true in many situations - for example it is a big risk...

speaking of squeezing in exercise here is a nice hack for you from an exercise physiologist called Martin Gibala worth looking up who has found you can get pretty much...

I think that of all the things a company can do to attract and keep good employees there is one universal truth - if you dont pay good people good...

A month or so ago there was an entire issue of Scientific American MIND devoted to Stress, causes, effects and how to deal with it. The research suggests that by...

I think that putting requirements on workers that are not directly related to the completion of their duties is a tricky area. Of course an employment contract is never going...

Ive only skimmed the comments but as far as I can see no one has mentioned inflation. Inflation typically runs at around 2.5% in a healthy economy (that is the...

My first impulse when i hear people say they will continue working and never retire (like my dad) is to think "wow, what an incredible lack of imagination"

But the reality...

Choosing the best person (in terms of skills, knowledge) is not always a good idea anyway, even if they do have a suitable personality. If there are a number of...

I have had sympathetic managers who I have trusted enough to talk about the possibility of changes or improvements to my job. But my experience is that if your manager...

bwillsie-842793 (12/1/2010)

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Do what you enjoy, and eventually the money will come. Even if it doesn't being happy and poor is still the better option.

Don't be afraid to take big...

the four year sentence is outrageous - he did give the passwords up, and in the meantime everything continued to function, no harm was done except to the dignity of...

Im surprised no one has yet mentioned the Dunning Kruger effect. To save you the trouble here is an excerpt from wikipedia:

"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias in which...