The Wall Street Journal recently did a study that showed men’s business clothing is gaining more and more market share. The casual flip flops, ripped jeans, and vintage tees that we have all come to love over the past few years are being replaced by a band of Brooks Brother Ivies who “just can’t take it anymore.” Dressing up for work is not just for the Fortune 5’s anymore. So if you are ready to sell out your style and shell out some bucks to get ahead at work, I’ve included a few links to help you along your way. A few words of advice, just because the store has an Itallian name (and I am specifically referring to the string of “cannoli tailors” that line 34th street and sell Carenzini rayon for 125 bucks) doesn’t mean you are getting an Itallian suit. To know before you go, check out Banana Republic and Soyouwanna.com.
Who wouldn’t want to wake up, play 18 holes of golf, grab a Corona and head to the beach cabana until your six o’clock date with a few pina coladas and fresh crab legs? How sweet life would be. But, the modern man knows that sunday night marks the end of the weekend debauchery and the beginning of the work week grind. There isn’t enough Starbucks in the world to help me through the first two hours of Monday morning, but here are a few sites ( IndiaTimes and eHow ) that offer an alternative Monday morning panacea.
” make sure you finish all the dirty work on Friday itself. Keep Monday for a fresh start. That way, at least there’s one thing less to bog you down on a Monday. Now that you know how to chase your blues, have a very happy Monday, remember the weekend’s just five days away!”
The modern man knows that while life is short, your career can be even shorter. A study was released earlier this year that spoke to the fact that hundreds of millions of dollars are lost every year in worker productivity due to Fantasy Football. I don’t even want to imagine how many man hours are wasted looking for new jobs on company time. So, the next time your boss catches you looking for new jobs, point out the fact that you are actually saving him money by using Indeed.com, your one stop job search tool.
“In one simple search, Indeed gives job seekers free access to millions of employment opportunities from thousands of websites. Indeed.com includes all the job listings from major job boards, newspapers, associations and company career pages - and we continue to add new sites every day.”
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I suppose I am living proof that one learns from experience, as I once accidentally let myself fall into a little work romance at a previous job, and am now, consequently, as unsocial and asexual as possible when in the office (or perhaps it’s because my office isn’t particularly stimulating?!). Thus, you can imagine my angst when an unexpected email popped up in my inbox. Apparently, I’d been nicknamed, invited to lunch, and was now obligated to share stories of past weekend events. Had the email been sent from someone I had little to no respect for, I would happily ignore it, perhaps even feel a bit smug. But when the email is from a genuinely nice guy…uyyy! You don’t want to be presumptuous and snobbish, but you don’t want your returned words to be misconstrued as anything more than email banter. It’s especially suspicious when the person never directly greets you, but then continues to sporadically email you. I was sternly warned by my two favorite IM buddies to “IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE”. Well, some I ignored, some I answered casually, but that last unanswered one is still floating over my head… I guess I’ll just have to cope with the notion that I’ll probably be remembered as a bitch.
Ok, perhaps I might not be ranked as your favorite IM buddy, but were the situation ever to present itself, I do suggest that you, too, heed these very words: “IGNORE IGNORE IGNORE”! - K.B. (contributing editor)