Remember, before running to your boss at all, you need to give that co-worker adequate time or opportunity to make a change. “If you haven’t gone to your colleague to have a discussion, then you should not be going over their head to your boss,” warns Davies. Will a lazy co-wor...
Solution: The best way to handle gossip in the workplace is to ignore it. If your coworker wants to share a story that oversteps boundaries, leave or politely divert the conversation. While this confrontation may be a little awkward, it will help create a more harmonious work environment in...
Can you use different tooling to help collaborate on your deploys easier? This isn't a tooling problem; this is a process problem. The vast, vast majority of startups I've talked to the last few years just don't have a good handle on what a "good" deployment workflow looks like fro...
However, even if you’re not willing to pay to use Tinder, there are some swiping strategies that are available to you. One is to use the Super Like function, which tells a user youreallylike them, bringing you to the front of their queue (free users get one Super Like per day). A...
Firstly, if you want to drive an ENTJ up the wall, round the bend, and across the border into Outta Here-ville, just be lazy. Do absolutely nothing and do it really well. To an ENTJ, a couch potato is the equivalent of a vampire staring at a garlic bread buffet – it’s pure to...
It’s not okay to treat your friends or loved ones badly because you’re not sure how to handle whatever you’re going through. That’s when you stop, clear your head for a moment, and ask for help. Currently, I’m in shadow-mode. I look at my own shadow and don’t even know...
However, once you know these items' importance, there's not really a great excuse for not handling any of them. Other than "I am just lazy and don't want to do it" or "I am really not a capable guy and simply am just going to lower my standards." ...
(every page is exported to a separate file). Finally, when distiller finishes its job, I run another script – just press a button –and it labels these files (so that I could distinguish my files from the files created by my coworker) and opens them in acrobat. I am too...
You can get “reactive to your child’s reactivity,” and watch things escalate, or you can try to be objective and thoughtful about how you want to handle the situation. Saying things like, “You’ve been here for three years! When are you going to get a job?” is reactive an...
Every single coworker, in my small group, was either incredibly jaded and paranoid, or new. One of the first people I met, after having taken the job, told me, “Get outta here kid. You don’t want to work here.” Another actually told me, in a whisper, “I’ll show you how ...