We’re all guilty of it, scanning the magazine stand while in line at the grocery checkout lane, when those alluring photos and attention-grabbing headlines do exactly what they’re intended to do.
We reach out and grab the latest issue of Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, Maxim, or other gender-oriented magazine to start to find out what we’re doing wrong with our love life.
Are you trying to climb the corporate ladder, and wondering why that ladder doesn’t go as high as you think it should?
Well, it ends up that people’s perceptions of a woman’s competence can be directly tied to the makeup that the woman is wearing.
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Overload! How Too Much Information is Hazardous to your Organization
On any given day, Web Watch receives between 500-1000 work-related emails. And we’re not even counting those emails that are routed directly into spam or junk folders.
While that may sound like a lot of email, the vast majority of those messages are informational – things that Web Watch needs to know about, but not anything that we need to actually do anything about.
So we file those away into various folders for future reference if needed, leaving our Inbox mostly clear for those important messages that we actually need to read and take some action on.
But a recent study by IBM has found that maybe Google (and therefore, Google’s approach of how GMail is structured) may be the right way to do things all along.
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Plastic Surgery Secrets – Questions you will be asked…
So you’ve decided to get some plastic surgery. Good for you.
You’ve probably put a lot of thought into what work you’re going to get done, whether it be a face lift, tummy tuck, boob job, calf implants, or tattoo removal.
But how did you pick your plastic surgeon? Did you go with the one that your insurance agent recommended? The one that all your friends used? Or the one that you heard doing a segment on the local morning radio program?
Continue reading "10 Signs You Should Be Worried about your Plastic Surgeon"
Christina Hendricks
Esquire magazine cover – May 2010
Christina Hendricks from Mad Men knows a little bit about what it takes for a man – a real man – to get her attention.
And back in May 2010, she penned a treatise on the subject entitled A LETTER TO MEN. It’s just her little way of giving back, to help men everywhere know what they should, and shouldn’t, be doing if they want to score a fantastic woman like that.
Some of the tips she shares are:
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The Idiots Guide to Recession-proof Careers
Just like everyone else, Web Watch knows lots of people who have been affected by this recession. Some of those have been out of work for over three years now, and their career prospects are not looking up.
It’s not their fault necessarily, it could just be that the career path they chose may not be the best ones to make it through a recession in the long haul. Maybe it’s time to switch careers.
But if you do decide to make a switch, what should you switch to? Well, here’s a list of 10 RECESSION-PROOF JOBS that you may want to consider:
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Not everyone knows what to wear to a job interview.
Yeah, the traditional suit should still work, but in today’s wacky world of “business casual” or “jeans Fridays”, the potential job seeker sometimes chooses the wrong outfits to appear at the potential future office with.
The good interviewer will share what the usual “around the office” dress code is, but that doesn’t mean that the applicant should show up in the same type of clothes in order to fit in. You don’t have the job yet, Bucko, so leave the flip-flops at home. Flip-flops don’t belong in the office anyway.
So what should the applicant wear? Well, you can never go wrong with a suit — unless you know ahead of time that the office is a bit more casual, in which case go with some nice slacks and dress shirt (but lose the tie).
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Everybody knows an office jerk.
They’re the ones who yell, scream, pound the table — and in general, make the office a bit miserable for everyone. They may be absolutely fantastic at their job, but that doesn’t mean that people have to like working with them.
Here’s another reason to hate them: they’re probably making more money than you, for doing the exact same thing you’re doing.
So why is that?
Continue reading "How to get a raise from your boss: just be a jerk"
Thought that would get your attention.
But apparently, “manopause” – the male version of menopause – is no laughing matter. Especially when the official name is “andropause“. It is caused by lower testosterone levels as men get older.
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What is the number one question that pregnant women ask about their upcoming labor and delivery of their brand new baby?
It’s not what you might think.
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How to Take Great Vacation Photographs
Web Watch, like many of you, loves to take vacation photos. We all do it, in part, as a way to remember where we’ve been and seen, but also to capture those moments that we can later reflect upon as being relaxing, happy times with special someones.
Of course, as we review our own vacation photos, they mainly end up being about the food we ate rather than the places we went. C’est la vie.
Continue reading "Here’s why nobody wants to look at your vacation photos"
When non-destructive, office pranks can be fun.
Filling up somebody’s cubical or office with inflated balloons? Fun. Filling up somebody’s cubical or office with Silly String? A little bit of a mess to clean-up, and usually left to the victim to do so on their own.
Web Watch has even covered an entire office’s items in tin foil and wrapping paper. Definitely time-consuming and an absolute waste of money, but entertaining. The best one we did was sheetrocking over the boss’s office door and painting the wall so it looked like the office was never there in the first place. Oh, we’re still laughing about that one.
But sometimes it’s nice to include others in your office shenanigans.
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If there’s one piece of advice that Web Watch is always trying to give to our younger acquaintances, it’s that it’s always better in the long run to save as much money as you can for the future. A while back, we recommended to try to have $10000 in the bank by the time you’re 30 years old, and that’s still a good rule of thumb to live by (call it your “emergency fund”, it still represents about 3-to-6 months take home pay for the average young adult that financial experts recommend keeping available for emergency purposes).
And Krystal felt the same way when she found herself a 20-something with over $20,000 in debt that she decided she wanted to get rid of. It was an albatross keeping her from future successes.
Continue reading "Give Me Back My Five Bucks: a personal finance guide for young adults"
Web Watch has worked in New York City. We’ve fought the crowds there, and frankly — rush hour there is absolutely everything you think it would be.
It’s crowded, it’s smelly – and the successful NYC commuters all have this “look”. The “don’t talk to me, don’t look at me, I’m not looking at you, get out of my way” look. Nobody is stopping to smell the roses or window shop or take a look around them at what some call the Most Amazing City In The World.
Nope, they’re too busy making sure that they don’t run into those tourists who wander New York City with their mouths agape, staring up at the tall buildings while they fumble their Kodak Instamatic disposable camera from their safe-and-secure fanny pack.
Continue reading "10 Rules for Walking on the Sidewalk (stop, move, or get out of our way!)"
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How to escape the police in a high-speed car chase
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Web Watch would never suggest that you ever evade the police by providing this information to our readers.
Think of this merely as an explanation of how all those criminals manage to escape getting into police custody in those high-action summer movies.
You, being a law-abiding citizen, would pull over immediately upon seeing the flashing blue lights in your rearview mirror, right? Right.
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