The lines are blurring between work days and off days, along with workplace and home environments, as technology makes us more accessible. One trend emerging has to do with open-ended vacation policies.
Unlimited paid vacation is the new trend, as you encourage workers to be responsible and take the time off they need. This makes workers more productive. The idea is a Results-Only Work Environment. Not many companies are doing it, but it’s becoming popular in the tech field.
Many of us are guilty of this. Instead of focusing on the execution of our most important initiatives, we keep coming up with new ideas. In some ways this is critical in the new economy, where everything moves very quickly. You have to be alert and opportunistic.
That said, there’s a real danger in spreading yourself too thin. You have to learn to focus on what’s important. This article explains the concept in the terms of domain names for Internet entrepreneurs. If you have over 300 domain names, maybe you’re brainstorming too much and not executing enough?
The interview process at Google has become legendary, and many people are curious about what it takes to get a job there. William Poundstone explains the secret to getting through the interview process there. Here’s an example of one question:
What is the single hardest question they ask you when interviewing at Google?
“What number comes next in this sequence: 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, 66…?”
This question is hard because you either see the “trick” or you don’t. Nothing you learned in school is likely to help. Try spelling out the numbers—you’ll see that they are in order of the number of letters in the word. “Sixty-six” has eight letters, so the next number must have nine. One possible answer is “ninety-six.”
Poundstone goes on to explain what Google is looking for in interview answers and the type of people, extremely bright extroverts, that Google wants. Your thought process is just as important as your answer. Read the whole article and see if you might fit in.
It used to be that you had to go to Las Vegas or Atlantic City to start a career as a poker or blackjack dealer, or to get other good casino jobs. But all of that has been changing for years as more and more states legalize casino gambling. While the patrons at all these new casinos learn the poker rules and rules for other casino games, they don’t always understand casino etiquette.
Most people understand the idea of tipping waitresses, so that’s not new in a casino setting. But unless you’ve been to places like Las Vegas, you might not understand that dealers also count on tips. So often the ideas of casino etiquette and tipping are not obvious to people frequenting these new gambling spots. For example, Cleveland recently added a casino, and the Cleveland paper then published an article about tipping workers in the casino.
Now, if you’re going to work as a dealer in a casino, you need to do your part. You don’t always have to be charming, and that’s difficult when you’re tired, but being generally nice to the customers will go a long way towards generating more tips. This may sound like common sense, but even in Vegas you’ll be shocked by how many dealers don’t seem to care. Of course dealers share tips, but it’s always good to carry your own weight. So be nice.
It was a pretty technical decision, but a court has struck down some of the regulations put in place by the Obama administration to regulation the for-profit-college industry. This is problematic as many of these colleges are loading up students with a ton of debt, while their degrees don’t get them a job. We’ve also seen some pretty shady practices in recruiting students to these schools. Unfortunately, there are far too many for-profit college scams out there.
This unfortunately tarnishes those colleges that provide good training for students. Hopefully the media attention will make students more selective, but the problem is that these schools are playing with our money, as the taxpayers help fund these student loans. We need more accountability and the court just made it more difficult.
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