http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog Speaking about work...with Eve Tahmincioglu Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:01:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may have heard about or had the pleasure to have eaten delectable French cooking. A cuisine that, despite its rich and fatty factor, has maintained a population of skinny men, women and children in France. Well, French cuisine is not what it used to be, and as a result ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/07/02/working-moms-blamed-for-le-big-mac/ Since early June, Kwaku Twumasi, 34, has been driving all around the posh neighborhoods of Dallas selling himself on the windows of his Chevy Tahoe. Twumasi was laid off from his analyst job at management consulting firm Accenture in November and has been looking for a job to no avail ever ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/07/01/your-ride-as-free-job-billboard-for-yourself/ Many corporations, municipalities, and nonprofits across the country have programs and procedures to help advance women and minorities into leadership roles. Why? There are still few of them represented in the nation's corner offices. Today, all those advancement initiatives are in legal limbo. The Supreme Court decided yesterday that a group of New ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/06/30/high-court-sets-minority-advancement-rights-on-fire/ Employers, aka Big Brothers, aka Richard Simmons wannabes, want you to drop and give them twenty. Aaron Lefkove, who works for a publishing firm in Manhattan, gets periodic memos and emails from his HR department reminding him to walk more, and offering tips on staying fit and diet. The notes haven't really ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/06/29/the-man-is-watching-your-waistline/ When companies treat workers like yesterday's garbage those workers eventually get pretty foul -- foul toward their employers that is. Right now, is seems almost every company is using the recession as an excuse for cutting pay, scaling back benefits, furloughing workers, and making workers work double duty because they've slashed ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/06/26/the-future-pissed-off-workers/ In West Side Story, Tony's life changes forever when he meets Maria at the school dance. He leaves his gang behind and embarks on a new life. Is it hard or easy for Tony? Well, he ends up dead so I guess the answer is hard. But making that decision to risk ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/06/25/sc-gov-risks-career-for-love-would-you/ It's been very hard to read my emails lately. As you can imagine, I've been getting lots of heart-wrenching stories from people who have lost their jobs, their homes, their lives as they knew them. But the one thing that many laid off workers say they're worried about most is the ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/06/24/workers-left-out-in-the-health-care-insurance-cold/ Right now, young and old job seekers think they're getting the shaft. I probably get an even amount of emails from people under 30, or from the parents of people who are under 30, as I do from those in their fifties. Kim, a 53 year old out of work business professional, ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/06/23/are-under-30s-or-over-50s-stiffed-in-this-job-market/ My daughter asked my son recently to give her several of his Bakugan balls. She didn't have any because she either misplaced hers, or gave them away. My son was reluctant at first to hand over the little, Japanese balls based on a cartoon series, but after much pleading on my daughter's ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/06/22/concessions-at-work-may-be-shortsighted/ Recently I made the argument in this blog that working moms seem to do more of the "heavy lifting" at home, way more than working dads. My husband didn't say much about the blog at first, but as the week went on he slowly let it be known that he ... http://www.evetahmincioglu.com/web/blog/2009/06/19/are-working-dads-just-zombie-sherpas/