One day an employee sent a letter to his boss to increase his salary…
The next day, the employee received this letter of reply:
LQL =))
I understand full well that there’s a lockout going on, one that has no end in sight. That the players and owners don’t even plan on getting together to talk through their issues until August is a clear sign that there isn’t going to be much going on in terms of personnel decisions, training camps…
I laughed when I read this rule, because it reminded me of a friend of a friend who is always rubbing his grades in people’s faces (and begging to compare them), but butnotmine’s response really struck a chord with me.
I wouldn’t say I grew up underprivileged by any means, but reading this, it…
5 pitfalls for recent grads starting a company
I began working on Postabon, a bootstrapped start-up, after I graduated from Harvard Business School last June. My co-founders and I slept on lots of couches, worked from coffee shops, and invested in a minimum viable product. We recently…
((Originally printed in the Christian Science Monitor. Hit the link — the CSM, if not this article, deserves the pageview.))
Why journalists deserve low pay
By Robert G. Picard
Journalists like to think of their work in moral or even sacred terms. With each new layoff or paper closing, they…
Should there be a narrower CEO-worker gap?
By Sarah Anderson
I was the lead author of a report on executive pay that’s generated a lot of fiery headlines. The main finding was that the CEOs of the firms that have cut the most jobs during the current crisis are making more money…
Should there be a narrower CEO-worker gap?
By Sarah Anderson
I was the lead author of a report on executive pay that’s generated a lot of fiery headlines. The main finding was that the CEOs of the firms that have cut the most jobs during the current crisis are making more money…
Design Intelligence published their annual compensation survey last month, and wrote an article about it. The article’s main theme was that the prevailing belief that architects earn disproportionately low salaries is a myth.
Their survey shows that the average CEO/President of architecture…
Boy: Marry me?
Girl: Do you have a house?
Boy: None but…
Girl: Do you have a BMW car?
Boy: None but…
Girl: How much is your salary?
Boy: No salary but.
Girl: No but. You have nothing. How can I marry you? Just leave me, please!*LE DRAMATIC LEAVE*
Boy: *talking to himself* I have one villa, 3 property lands, 3 Ferrari, 2 Porsche.. Why I still need to buy BMW?! How can I get the salary when actually I’m the BOSS?
