Lost in the crowd…Getting ahead at work

What’s your strategy for getting ahead at work? 
Your Rant: I feel like I’ve been running in place at work. Other people get promoted, but I just sit in the same job. Is there something that I can do to get ahead at work?
911 Repair:
Town Clerk Walk Weber announced the reason that elections in Monticello, Wisc., [...]

I deserve more pay, but my salary negotiation is broke!

What is your strategy for negotiating your salary?
Your Rant: What are the best ways to negotiate your salary in a job interview? It’s come up a few times in job interviews and I never know what I should say - or not say.
911 Repair:
A woman recently told me that her boyfriend had cheated [...]

Tim Driver interview “how much you should be paid’

911 Repair: If we had x-ray vision most of us wouldn’t want to look inside of walls or under people’s clothing. We’d want to be able to see how our paychecks stack up to the people we work with. We turned to Tim Driver of Salary.com, the top provider of online salary information, for help.
WW: [...]

I am starved for a promotion!

What’s your strategy for promotions?
Your rant: My goal is the corner office. I’ve been working hard to get there but I don’t think anyone has noticed. What am I doing wrong? 
911 Repair,
Recently I read about a 6-month-old girl who was married in southern Nepal. Her husband is much more mature, he’s 3! The prime [...]

Front burner, getting noticed by the leaders of your company

What are your strategies for getting noticed by the leaders of your company?
Your Rant: I want to make the leap from a secretary to an executive assistant for one of the big boys (yes, in my company they’re all boys). Any advice on what I’d need to do to make this leap?
911 Repair,
Before now, [...]

Just say no? When should you refuse a promotion

What is your strategy for deciding if you should accept a promotion?
Your Rant: I just got offered a promotion. It’s weird, but I’m not sure that I should take it. My pay would go up only a small amount and I’m not sure it’s worth the extra grief.
911 Repair,
Swiss scientist with the World Wildlife [...]

Money matters, strategies for getting a raise

What are your strategies for getting a raise?
Your Rant: I haven’t had a raise in over two years. How can I convince my boss to give me the extra cash I deserve?
911 Repair,
You’re going to find this hard to believe, but I swear it’s true. A judge in Virginia ordered a man to [...]

Funny money? Working with stock options

What are your strategies for working with stock options?
Your Rant: I have stock options in my company. I was planning on hanging onto them for the long term, because I think the stock will be worth more, but my colleagues are exercising theirs now and it’s been “suggested” that exercising our options is a sign [...]

Help-get me out! Wedged in a job with no promotion

How do you get a promotion at work?
Your Rant: I’m stuck in a job that’s going nowhere. Whatever happened to getting a promotion every couple of years?

911 Repair
Speaking of hell . . . not long ago two Spanish physicists determined exactly how hot it is down there. They based their calculations on passages from the [...]

What’s in your Personnel File can hurt you. Badly.

What is your strategy for dealing with your personnel file at work?
Your Rant: A friend of mine claims he got fired based on a mistake in his personnel file. I thought I’d check mine, just to be sure, and my company refused to let me see it. Should I care, or am I being paranoid?
911 [...]