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Work/Life Balance Myth Exposed

Workplace tensions rise as dads seek family time
Conflicts are up at more workplaces over time-off requests from dads.
Todd Scott, 32, has two children under age 5. Each workday, he leaves his job at Himmelrich Public Relations in Baltimore at 5 p.m. to be with his family — and even then feels guilty he isn't spending enough time with Hunter, 4, and Anna, 1. Scott's approach to balancing work and family contrasts with that of his boss, Steve Himmelrich, 48, who has two children and is a more traditional-style dad, spending many long hours, free time and some weekends at the office. Himmelrich says he supports Scott's parenting strategy, but both acknowledge it has been a source of tension between them.

"We have monthly conversations, some more tense than others, about our differing attitudes to our roles at home and our responsibilities at work," says Scott, who says that "being engaged in my family life is more important to me than my career advancement. My boss … couldn't be more opposite."

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Lookin' for Love in all the Wrong Places

I’ve been thinking lately about all the social networks that are proliferating today and wondering, at the bottom of all of it, what drives the popularity? I’ve come to the conclusion there is something at work beyond all the rational explanations about why social networking is the newest and best thing since sliced bread.

It has to do with being five years old.

Remember when, as a kid in kindergarten, that other kid in your class arrived at school with a handful of envelopes that promised to be invitations to his looming birthday party? And how he selectively handed them out to his “friends”? And how you felt when you didn’t get one?

Or this. Remember standing on the playground at recess, and waiting to be “chosen”. The last thing you wanted was to be chosen last, or even next-to-last. But there you stood, soldiering through the humiliating trial as sides were chosen and there you were, last and least, the default player going to the one with last choice.

And then there’s this one. It’s Valentine’s Day. You don’t get nearly the amount of Valentines pretty little blonde-haired/blue-eyed Suzie got. Ouch.

To top it all off, let’s go here. Waylon Jennings sings, in “Lookin’ for Love "

I was looking for love in all the wrong places
Looking for love in too many faces
Searching your eyes, looking for traces
Of what.. I'm dreaming of...
Hopin' to find a friend and a lover
God bless the day I discover
Another heart, lookin' for love

Is that what we’re all doin’? Lookin’ for love? In all the wrong places? There’s more resonance here than I care to admit.

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"Treat people like you're trying to save their lives."

Prestigious Occupations Index
A new Harris poll has ranked some professions and found some interesting trends, namely that some occupations have lost prestige while others have gained. Call it the 9/11 effect, but suddenly, we are appreciating our workforce occupations a lot more than we used to. "Treat people like you're trying to save their lives."
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Wall of Shame

Shaming them into paying taxes: STATE POSTS LISTING OF TOP DELINQUENTS

California's tax collectors hope you'll agree there are better ways to score your 15 minutes of fame than by drawing comparisons with O.J. Simpson.

But that's precisely the fate of more than 200 people and corporations whose names will be forever linked with Simpson's after the state Franchise Tax Board published its first ranking of the biggest tax deadbeats Friday.

Fun or Meaningful Ways to Reward Employees

By Maureen Sharib

Paid OFF Days for Birthdays
Call-In WELL Days
Employee of the Week
Extra time off
Free Food
Time Flexibility
Saying thank you

Whole story here.

Grovel Culture

By Maureen Sharib

How Office Tyrants In Critical Positions Get Others to Grovel

Among John Phelan's challenges when he worked for an electronics-manufacturing company was trying to extract office supplies from Sam. Tracking all supplies by date, Sam would refer to his records of your last paper-clip withdrawal to determine if you really needed a new box. He would require the stub of an old pencil before he dispensed a new one. And the remains of an old pen had better show no signs of chewing, which might have sucked the ink away from the tip. If it did, recalls Mr. Phelan, Sam would instruct you to blow the ink back down the tube toward the tip.

"You might have the keys to the kingdom," human-resources executive Mike Farrell notes, "but if you don't have the keys to the gate, you're shafted."

What have been your experiences with gatekeepers such as office managers?

Read the whole thing here.
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