This past weekend, my laptop – the one I use for work and the one we have all our personal photos, videos, etc on – started having trouble. Specifically, the pin where the plug fits into stopped working so my laptop was effectively useless as I couldn’t recharge it to use. The laptop is over [...]

The higher profile and higher paying the job, the less it hurts to get fired. Think of the best coaches and managers of professional sports teams and chances are they have been fired several times in their careers. Some have even been rehired by the same team that fired them previously. Some professional athletes get [...]

When I was in university, I worked for a company that was rumored to be close to having a fairly sizeable downsizing in their office area. I worked part time in an area that was not going to be affected but the rumors were floating around as to who was getting chopped and how big [...]