A funny collection of job and work-related charts and graphs.

--Jacob Share

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Work Happy Now! is Karl Staib’s blog about “maximizing your work happiness”. When Karl wrote about 6 Things You Should Never Say to Your Boss, all I could think was “Karl, you’ve had some really bad bosses.” It doesn’t need to be like that.

You can always talk to a good boss

See for yourself. Quotes from Karl’s article are in italics.

Tip for job seekers: use the hypothetical situations below in job interviews to test if your new boss is someone with whom you can talk freely.
1) Dirty (swear) words

When your boss angers you to your core and makes you feel like screaming, you don’t respond with a rant that would make Paris Hilton blush.

Although name-calling is never a good idea in the workplace, it’s important and even healthy for people to blow off steam from time to time and even at the boss when deserved. You’ll appreciate your boss much more if you know it’s ok to react that way instead of keeping your frustration pent up.

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Asking the right interview questions can help you sniff out the bad bosses no one wants to suffer.

This is a guest post by Andrew Rondeau. If you’d also like to guest post here on JobMob, follow these guest post guidelines.

You have been invited to attend an interview. You have been waiting a long time for this one. This could be the perfect job. The company has a great brand and future and the vacancy sounds great as well. Good pay, great prospects, great perks. This is the job to die for. You can see yourself in the job and your career finally taking off.
The big day arrives

You have all the answers ready with all the examples, you look great, are well groomed and your clothes are sharp (that recent shopping trip will be worth it). You are feeling confident and fully prepared.

But are you?

The relationship between managers and direct reports is the number one factor in morale, productivity and retention of high performers. One thing which causes high stress in individuals at work is the management style of their boss. You get use to the pay, the perks and the prospects, but they become very insignificant if your boss is a bad manager.

You do not get used to bad managers, especially very bad ones.

--Jacob Share

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You probably remember some terrible moments in your career that you’d love to delete from your memory. How did you cope? Difficult to Leave Behind Here are some of the things that I’ve dealt with, in no specific order: Sitting in a tense meeting listening to one executive berate another one only to discover minutes [...]

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Everyone has work or job search horror stories to tell. Here are 10 of the funniest job horror stories from around the web.

10. Concerned Employer

From Workrant.com:

“Firing a married couple who had just bought a house and were expecting their first child. The husband was simply fired because they (upper management) figured he’d be mad that his wife was fired.”

9. Honesty is the Best Policy

From The Real World:

“I instantly realize, of course, that there had indeed been a dollar on that table and I tell them that, and that I know that dollar is somewhere deep in the bucket, since that was the first table I had bussed and the bucket was now full, and since I don’t empty the buckets, I obviously wasn’t stealing… They say if it isn’t in that bucket I’m fired.”

--Jacob Share

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