If you are texting someone you don’t know well, sign your text. They may not have your number in their contacts, and therefore have no clue who you are.
This is more of a life tip, but I’m going to post it here anyways.
Don’t write on facebook “I lost my phone, could everyone post/message me their phone number so I have it again”
Write “I lost my phone, could everyone text me their name”
Then as the texts come in, all you have to do is save the number. Your friends don’t have to post their phone number on facebook and you don’t have to carefully copy all these phone numbers to your phone, just hit the save button and enter the name that came with it.
It’s just so logical.
If you get into trouble because you went the extra mile to figure out and fix a mistake somebody else made that popped up in a report you’re tasked with running every day, get the fuck out because that company is going to collapse under the weight of sheer idiocy and office politics.
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Cover your clients ass - in times of uncertainty - with both limit and stop orders. The stop allows you to sell if it drops a certain level and the limit allows you to buy back at a lower rate.
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The guys who try to do it themselves always come back.
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You can save on commissions by asking. That’s all it takes.
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For heavens sake. Just buy and hold.
Bring another baggie to store your Paula Abdul, Hall & Oates, and Huey Lewis tapes.
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If you’re thinking of going to graduate school with the aim of getting a Ph.D. and going into academics, MAKE SURE you have a really solid Plan B that you could switch into at any point, if you had to. Professors are capricious and the job market is terrible; you can be the world’s new most brilliant expert and STILL have your career end abruptly because of something entirely outside your control.
Knowing which jobs are better with weed and which jobs are better without comes with experience.
Sometimes it’s subtle. Assembling new computers, blaze up. Diagnosing used ones, not so much.
IME YMMV Other disclaimers Apply
If you have to send emails regularly, especially to a large group, learn to have witty/funny subject titles that grab attention. Then clarify whatever that statement/comment in the subject title was in your first paragraph.
For instance:
“Remember To Wear Clothes Tomorrow!”
"Yes, even though it is casual Friday, it is probably better to be fully dressed when you attend the meeting at 3:00 PM in the conference room about the budget and new yearly plans…(blah blah blah).
Having attention getting subject titles to mass emails usually guarantees people will open them to see what the hell you are talking about.
I found that, over time, my emails were a bright spot in the sea of emails people would get, and they would try to guess where I was going from the subject title.
I know that sounds silly, but when I would need to regularly contact 200+ students and an entire staff of teachers/directors/staff - it helped if I could at least get them to READ the damned email. I would often get witty, funny responses and if nothing else, I think my read-through rate was off the charts.
Even recycling old jokes and starting an email with, “Knock, knock” “Who’s there?” and finishing the joke, or making a statement like, “Good News/Bad News”, or “Why The Chicken Really Crossed The Road…” will get people to click on, and open your email.
Hmm, there’s almost nothing I dislike more than an email subject line that makes me open the message. If you’re worried that people won’t read your emails, put the important bit right in the subject line: 3pm budget mtg & casual Friday reminder. I don’t always have time for clever on a busy day.
This is only half-true. There are some situations where asking permission will get you nowhere, but everyone will be happy if you just act. Other times, asking permission will get you exactly what you want, and you’ll screw yourself over if you just act before you even have the opportunity to ask forgiveness.
Learning which situation is which is an invaluable life skill.
Yes, receiving important work-related information in the form of a knock-knock joke would make me nearly homicidal with rage. If you’re in a professional environment, act professional.
If people are telling you that you don’t want to work there, they’re right.
If a place is always hiring, there’s a reason, and it’s this: They can’t keep employees, and probably for some very good reasons.
It doesn’t matter where you work, there are always going to be people who are exempt from disciplinary action, are not qualified to do their jobs, etc. and there is nothing you can do about it.
Each to their own.
All I know is that my emails were read.
Plus, I guess it depends upon your audience - mine were mostly students who would never open an email about classes, schedules, FA and other mundane topics if I didn’t get their attention.
Sorry for the stupid suggestion - carry on.
Not necessarily true. I’ve worked in places (heck, I work in one now) that are doing really well, and expanding at huge rates. My current job is pretty much always hiring for several different positions, and we have very low turnover, and something like 40% growth a year for the past 5-6 years. I don’t know how they do it, but they do. It’s part of the reason I took the job.
I also know there’s places out there who are very, very picky about who they hire. They also appear to be always hiring, but in reality, they have very stringent rules about what kind of experience they want, and it’s rare to find people with that experience. If you are an expert in rare job skills X, Y, and Z, for example, they will hire you, even if there’s not an official position open. Or, rather, they always have that position open, even if they hired someone for it yesterday.
You can attach a thermite grenade to the front of a claymore mine with electrical tape.
If the person who just left the job gave as her reason, “It’s too stressful” and is now training to be an air traffic controller, that should tell you something.
Businesses that (still) send out direct mail/circulars order labels/software to print addresses months in advance. So if you contact that business and tell them to stop sending you stuff, you could easily get several (or more) pieces of mail from them.
(Advice from my mother) Give the job to someone who’s busy. They’ll get it done.
If a student in a science class is getting an answer that’s off by a factor of 10, they made one of two different mistakes. Either they mis-entered a number in scientific notation, such as punching “10e6” in their calculator when they mean “ten to the sixth” (that should be “1e6”). Or they’ve entered something like 1/2pi (which the calculator interprets as “one half times pi”), when they should’ve entered 1/(2pi). Ask to watch them entering the calculations into their calculator, and you’ll see what they’re doing, and can stop them right at that point.
I would appreciate the humor!
After you have a phone call with someone involving tasks (or clarification of tasks), recommendations, or deadlines, send that person an email summarizing what you’ve talked about. And never ever delete it. There’s nothing better than being able to pull out a critical email when people start pointing fingers and revising history. A dusty old email can really save the day.
Related to this, save all your “sent” emails and organize by topic and/or year.
If you have a slow day, use that time to read about what’s going on in your line of work. Subscribe to industry-related new services.
I concur. My company is always hiring but that’s because we’re growing like crazy and people keep getting promoted.