The 7 Types Of Bad Bosses According To Star Trek (And How To Survive Them) Captain Jean-Luc Picard was far scarier than I remember him. He's your best pal, playing poker with you and listening to you whine about your holographic love life - until you piss him off, and then suddenly he's all shouty and mean. He's like your nice uncle who suddenly turns vicious. It actually startled me ... Read full entry

You Weren't Meant to Have a Boss If a workplace cubicle is a cage, then working for a large company must be like being an animal in a zoo... What's so unnatural about working for a big company? The root of the problem is that humans weren't meant to work in such large groups. Another thing you notice when you see animals in the wild is that each species thrives in ... Read full entry

Conventional wisdom tells us "the internet" has simplified the job search process. I beg to differ though. If anything, it has made the process more complicated. Sure, we can join any number of recruitment websites, find leads, send resumes, and dispatch query emails, all pretty much instantly. But the internet has also made the process far more invasive. Recruiters can now log on to our favourite social networking sites, MySpace and Facebook ... Read full entry