A little pinch (not always literally a pinch) is what people need when they drown in their day-to-day activities and start dreaming instead of seeing reality. While it’s nice to dream, losing sight of reality in favor of a dream isn’t exactly the most pleasant thing to look forward to. One source of this problematic [...]
A Warning on Worrying
Who among you guys have jobs pending right now? Aren’t you worrying about it, that instead of surfing the net, you just busying yourselves doing your office workload, such as pending reports and whatnot, to save time? Very few people can say they are truly unaffected by fear and worry. For most people, fear and [...]
A Word on Privatization
I took the day off last Friday to get my driver’s license renewed. To those who live in Connecticut, the state has a new program known as SelectCT, where you need to furnish “historic proof” of your identity before you can renew your license. This means you need to bring along an original birth certificate [...]
What Every Business Exec Should Have at Home
As I sat down, the prospect of spending another all-nighter at work made me tremble. Humans just weren’t created to stay in cubicles until the wee hours of night: at the end of the day, we’re still a biological entity that, like the rest of the animal kingdom, yearns to run free. No matter how [...]
Staying on Top of your Game
There’s a reason why the business world is called a “rat race”. It’s not enough just to turn a profit. In order to survive, you constantly have to keep growing and racing ahead of the competition, otherwise all you’ll ever do is earn enough to sustain operations while earning a small sum on the side. [...]
Staff Conflict: Cause and Resolution
Conflict between people in the same office can arise for many reasons. In business, it’s not unusual for people to be in competition with each other, even if they are on the same team, the same office, or the same department. The competitive nature of many who choose the business profession is one of the [...]
Reasons to Go Freelance
It’s getting harder to find jobs that would both pay good money and be interesting. These days there are many people who just take what work they can get. People who are uninterested in the jobs that they do everyday will not be vested in the well being of the company they are at.This lack [...]
The Human Side of your Superior
Everyone fears the Boss. Even in computer games, they are not called “End Bosses” for nothing. While real-life versions don’t spew lasers or machine gun bullets out of their eyes, their decisions can be just as deadly. They decide if you can finally afford to take that Maldives vacation on your birthday, or if you [...]
What Your Desk Says About You
We here at desktop jocks pride ourselves not just on our computer knowledge or business prowess, but in the appearance of our office. So sometimes when we say desktop, we literally mean the desktop. It’s obvious that most office rooms have very little in the way of furniture. You get the generic sofa, steel cabinet, [...]
Marketing Accidents Waiting to Happen
In a fast-paced world of technologically-savvy consumers, simple, avoidable marketing mistakes can create immediate downturns in business, as well as opportunities for competitors to capitalize on those errors to seize market share out from under well-intended but mistake-prone businesses. “Me, too” is a strategy often employed by businesses struggling to catch up to their competitors. [...]