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The Art of Minute Taking

Laughing all the Way to Work

If the Chair says this is not for the minutes you need to take your hands off the keyboard so the meeting participants know it is not being recorded. For example if they are discussing staff or executive salaries they will ask staff to leave. Don’t feel offended if you are asked to leave a meeting during an “in-camera session”.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

In some organizations raises are tied to how well you do and it is also a record that is kept on your personnel file. I have asked for a raise however, but it was after I considered a move somewhere else and wasnt sure I wanted to go, so gave my employer a chance to match the new salary and they did. Oh where or where is my password?

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Besides, as I was told when I was looking at the dismal entry-level salaries being offered when I graduated, and my Dad was wondering aloud why he had paid $$$ for a degree that wouldn’t get me much more than minimum wage (I wanted to go into book publishing, go figure), I shared the quote I got from the university’s job office.

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