Hi all…allow me to introduce myself, my name is Kim and I have recently joined b5media so that I may preside over Blog Fabulous, as Christine moves toward new goals.
I find it interesting that my favorite movie (best movie theme ever!) is Working Girl with Melanie Griffith and Harrison Ford, and here I am contributing to a blog which is dedicated to the needs and interests of working women. Some kind of cosmic force developing here, I would say.
I am a 20 year marketing and advertising veteran and have truly been in the trenches — working at varied companies from …read more

In an effort to save real estate cost, Sun Microsystem located in California launched a flexible work program in 1996 to allow its employees to choose where and when to work. Employees have the freedom to work from home or nearby drop-in centers. According to the company, the program has saved company $69 million in 2005 alone. By giving the employees flexibilities to accommodate their child care and health care needs also created fierce company loyalty.
I don’t know how many large companies are actively encouraging telecommunication. The last thing I know is that we still have to fight …read more

It’s quite simple. We don’t ask for it the way man does.
Does any of the following scenarios sound familiar:

A woman thinks that she is due for a raise after working for the same company for so long. But she feels too awkward to bring up the topic.
A woman goes into a performance review and hoping for approval. She gets immense satisfaction from positive feedbacks. She is so grateful after receiving a pad on the shoulder and forgets about asking for the cash reward.
When a woman asks for raises, she uses reasons such as a family hardship …read more

It’s Friday pm here at work and 90% of the place has emptied out. People all left to start their weekends, yet, a few of the unfortunate consulting souls are still here heads down trying to make the deadline, myself included.
Last night at 10pm, half of my team members were still here. And it was like this every night in the last couple of weeks. A guy who was supposed to help me out walked out of the project earlier this week ‘cause he couldn’t handle the pressure, leaving me with 15, 16 hrs/day worth of work.
I …read more

I finally took the first step towards leaving my job today.
After thinking carefully for the whole weekend, I felt that no matter what I do and no matter how much I have determined that I would never ever come back to this company again, I should not burn the bridge.. You just never know.
I submitted an informal resignation letter today.
I am considering quitting ABC Company and this job because I can tell that I am physically and mentally tired. And I feel that without a break, my current condition does not allow me to take on the …read more

On Dec 19, I wrote a post to show my determinations to take a real vacation by turning away from my work, blog and work. The reality is that it is much harder to avoid work responsibilities than we thought.
I couldn’t resist my “curiosity” and checked my work emails on the second night in Vegas. After scanning through a couple important emails, I felt the responsibility to respond to an important inquiry and made my recommendations. The next morning my phone woke me up at 8am. I was demanded to attend a conference call to discuss over the …read more

AS Baldrick in hit British comedy series Blackadder, Tony Robinson did his fair share of disgusting jobs. But nothing could prepare the Time Team presenter for the truly horrible work he’d have to take on for his new book, stage show and Channel 4 series – The Worst Jobs In History. In an exclusive interview Tony told The Sun he was sick every single day while making the show and ill for months afterwards. He says he tested 50 of the foulest careers of the last 2000 years – many involving urine or excrement, and that was if he …read more

I am sick and tired of staying in a closed warehouse type of office for 10 hours a day and 300 days a year. I want to see sunshine, trees and birds!!
Here are a few ways to achieve the goal of seeing sunshine:
A) Buy from the vending machine as shown below

B) Join the smoking group so you can go outside every half an hour
C) Make enough troubles so you will be called into your boss’s window office a few times a day
D) Create some side projects. So one day, you can work for yourself from home with 15 windows around ya. Sweet!
Hmm… I …read more

I noticed that no matter how correct I am, if I tell a male co-worker(or any male creature) that he is wrong and I am right, it’s guaranteed that the conversation will absolutely go no where. Even Oprah is educating the women not to tell a man he is wrong no matter how ridiculous his thought or action would be. In her full length article featured in the June issue of O, some psychologist suggested a tactical method for woman to resolve such conflict. The method can be summarized in the following semi-haiku format:
Start with “You are 100% correct.”
Followed by …read more