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Every year there are a few brave souls who suggest that the Monday after the Super Bowl should become a national holiday. After the Super Bowl two years ago, Yahoo! Sports wrote, “You shouldn’t have to work today. You shouldn’t even have to get out of bed. This should be a day where you can sleep in, sleep off the effects of all the “soda” you drank yesterday.”
It’s no secret that co-workers may drive you nuts. “At the office, even the littlest things can set you on edge when they happen every single day,” says Kerry Miller, founder of PassiveAggressiveNotes.com, a humor blog that often highlights annoyed office workers. “You start to think your co-worker is typing extra loudly just to drive you crazy — and then you go crazy stewing over it.”
It’s a thrill to be writing my first post for Glassdoor. I originally got to know the folks at Glassdoor when my co-authors and I were in the early stages of writing Good Company: Business Success in the Worthiness Era. We were looking for a way to get the inside scoop on what it’s really like to work for a wide range of companies, and Glassdoor provided us with the opportunity to “see inside.”
If you’ve ever watched the NBC-TV hit show ‘The Office,’ you probably know some of the funny nicknames that the characters end up living with every day at work. There’s Jim, the “Big Tuna” or “Slim Jim”; Pam, often called “Pama-lama-ding-dong” and “Pamcasso”; and Ryan, also known as “Fire-d Guy,” “Big Turkey” and “Egghead.” It’s not so different in the real world, although sometimes a pet name isn’t quite so polite nor friendly.
Read on for some of our favorite funny workplace nicknames, and hope you don’t recognize yourself in the stories!
In the midst of public scrutiny over Comcast’s efforts to buy NBC Universal, the Federal Communications Commission hosted a seven-hour hearing in Chicago Tuesday in which FCC staffers and at least one FCC commissioner heard from Comcast competitors, NBC affiliates and the general public about their concerns on the deal. During part of the meeting it was announced that the merger talks are being extended for another four and a half months.
So as the merger talks linger on, we were curious to find out what the employees think about each company. What are their concerns?
Got to love the holidays, a great time to spend time with family, watch bowl games, read a few books and consider the upcoming year and what’s next. I read two interesting books over the holiday: James Bradley’s The Imperial Cruise – the story of Teddy Roosevelt and our relationship with Asia, and George Friedman’s The Next 100 Years. It takes a brave and confident person to forecast what’s ahead for the next 100 years for our globe politically and economically. Friedman has the background and enough ‘correct’ forecasts that he is listened to carefully by governments and corporations all over the world.
Starting in the next few years and really manifesting itself from 2020 to 2030 will be a global war for talent. Friedman projects that due to mortality rates and retiring boomers the world over, countries will be forced to entice and compete for skilled and unskilled talent to keep their economies moving in the right direction.
Why should this be of interest to us readers at Glassdoor? Well, whether you are currently working, looking for work or considering strategic paths for your company’s short and long term future, it is vital to know that talent plays an important ...
Your vacation is just hours, if not minutes away but before you dash out of your office for some well deserved time away from work, don’t forget to set up that incredibly useful out-of-office message. However you may be thinking: “I know I need an out-of-office email reply, but what exactly needs to be included?” and “please let this little out of office message keep things at bay till I get back.”
Here are some questions to consider when crafting your auto-response that will keep your contacts informed and give you the chance to get away:
When will you be gone and when do you get back? Be clear in your message and let people know the date(s) that you will be out and when you return.
Do you have an alternate contact while you are out? Do you want your cell phone to ring incessantly while you’re out of pocket or have emails just go unanswered? (Or are you one of those who never actually shuts down? If not for yourself, try to do this so you don’t bother your friends and family.) Determine if another colleague could assist in handling inquiries while you are out and make sure they are ok ...
Extravagant office holiday parties? Sayonara. Unexpected expensive gifts? Those days are gone for now. Workplace gift exchanges among employees? This year, not so much.
Glassdoor released the findings from its holiday workplace survey today which highlights how those employed, affected by layoffs or other cost-cutting measures, and unemployed plan to tackle gifts, parties, travel and all that the season brings with it. As part of the Glassdoor survey of more than 2,250 people, we wanted to find out: What do people plan to cut back on this season compared to a typical holiday season? Bottom line: people are reducing gift budgets and plans to attend holiday parties and travel, even more so among employees who work for companies that have initiated or communicated layoffs in the past six months, which accounts for 27% of employed adults (1). Survey highlights include:
Gift Budgeting: More than half (52%) of those whose company has laid off or communicated layoffs in the past six months plan to cut back on budgets for gift purchases, compared to 40% of all employed adults.
Gift Exchanges: Gift exchanges will either be less common or less pricey: 28% of employed adults plan to cut back on gift exchanges with co-workers; whereas, ...
As you sit at your office working away, you hear a co-worker nearby hacking up a lung and blowing their nose into tissue after tissue. At this point, there are two common lines of thought that occur in response to this situation:
“Wow, what a hard worker – comes into the office even when they’ve got a terrible cold.”
(or)
“Why are they here? They are going to give the rest of us their flu. Great! I know I’ll get sick this weekend.”
The government recommends that anyone exhibiting the physical symptoms associated with cold or flu stay home. As fall turns to winter, consider these reasons to stay home or encourage your co-workers or employees to stay home when sniffling, sneezing, coughing, aching and complaints of being up all night strike:
Work/life balance takes a toll. Most people in the working world appreciate a company that offers a good work/life balance. However, if the company culture silently supports employees coming in when feeling under the weather, their appreciation for a good job combined with a solid personal life is likely to be impacted. In turn, an employee’s overall satisfaction at the company could go down and even contribute to a shorter tenure with that ...
According to Glassdoor interview reviews, 15% have acquired a job interview with the help of a recruiter and 3% get an interview by working with a staffing agency. Given these findings, we were curious to find out what it’s like to be a recruiter or staffing agency professional in this market. What does it take in this economy for recruiters to pair job seekers with companies hiring? What’s challenging about the job these days? And what type of questions does a recruiter get asked when they are being interviewed for a job?
Based on the company and interview reviews on Glassdoor, we did some digging around to give you a better picture of what it’s really like to be a recruiter today.
What recruiters don’t like about their jobs: In a nutshell, being a recruiter requires long hours, sometimes a low commission based salary, and a continual uphill climb given a tough job market.
Long hours, commission brackets are impossible to reach, once you reach then you still aren’t making that much money. – Aerotek Recruiter
Overall, the staffing industry isn’t a prime place to be. Go in wanting to learn about the job market and what you need to succeed, and get out ...
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