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The SimplyFired website provides ten tips on interoffice dating, but for those
whose office amore turned into nothing less than a disaster, a trip for two to
Las Vegas awaits the pathetic paramour with the best bliss blow-up story.
Editor's Note: Has love's siren song lightened your heart? Or did that
song change to Joy
Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart"? Which rules did you fail to heed
from the list below? Share your tale of love and woe. WebProWorld.
We're here for you.
 Fall
in love at the office. Have the affair go horribly, tragically wrong, with embarrassment
and firings to follow. Laugh like crazy over the failed fling as the winner of
SimplyFired's contest. The website
has more details about the contest. The grand prize "loser" wins a trip for two
to Vegas and a stay in the honeymoon suite of the Paris
Las Vegas Hotel.
To help the romantically resourceful avoid the wrath of the human resources department, SimplyFired provided rules for keeping it cool when the office romance heats up.
Rule 1 - Know the rules. If company policy says "no dating,"
either chill out or find another job before approach that angel in an amorous
way.
Rule 2 - Know your co-worker. If your target for Cupid's
arrow is attached, a gossiper, or related to the boss, aim that shaft elsewhere.
Rule 3 - No means no. If you need that one explained to
you or choose to ignore it, you may wish to familiarize yourself with the job
search engine at SimplyHired.
Just sayin'.
Rule 4 - Create a workplace prenup. Set limits early and
be aware of what could happen when the relationship that started with dozens of
roses turns into War
of the Roses.
Rule 5 - Don't fish in your boss's pond. That could be
taken a lot of ways, but SimplyFired advises you to not date in the same department
or be prepared to let the boss know about it.
Rule 6 - Date up, not down. Dating down means leaving
oneself open to a sexual harassment suit if the relationship goes pancake-shaped.
Rule 7 - Keep your privates private. Um, (blush), this
means avoid affectionate touching or longing glances when others are around. Private
moments, people, that's what Rule 7 means!
Rule 8 - Use Hotmail for hot mail. (I am so not making
a Gmail joke here. No way.) This one about avoiding work email for off-work topics
can be summarized in six words: Email administrators can read your messages.
Rule 9 - Don't drink and date. Office parties and alcohol
can turn the most covert relationship into the talk of the company for months
afterward.
Rule 10 - Your office or mine? NEITHER. The office is
for the work you're being paid to perform as specified in your job description.
'Nuff said.
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David Utter is a staff writer for WebProNews covering technology and business. |
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‘Dog House Factor’ Drives VDay Shopping
By Jason Lee Miller
Valentine's Day shopping, it may be said, is driven by the "dog house factor"
as much as or more than love. Men have long suspected that the holiday was contrived
by sinister dealings between marketers and women.
An online poll by Harris Interactive suggests that the agreed upon day for symbolic
materialism is a bit more important to the ladies, but not near as important as
to the online marketer.
The overall numbers from Harris' poll, done in conjunction with eHarmony, suggest
that the majority of US adults (61%) currently in a relationship believe that
it is more important to give their loved one a gift than to receive one from them
(31%). But when broken down according to gender, the results are quite telling.
And judging from spikes in category purchases and certain search terms, it seems
farily obvious that men are frantically searching online for that perfect heartbreak
salve.
Women are more likely than men (44% vs. 16%) to agree that it is important that
their current partner buy them a gift or plan a special activity. Inversely then,
it may be implied, that men find it very important to not to forget that special
day or face the consequences.
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Different Ways to Spice up the Content
What methods do you use to inject life into your web content? Do you try to include
a sense of humor or a little bit of personality into what you write for the web?
Below, Dcrux
has an interesting post about some methods that go against the norm of merely
producing keyword-laden content strictly for search engine purposes. The post
is a little cryptic, but if you've checked out our Content
Discussion Forum before, there isn't anything in the following post that is
out of place. Take care and have a happy Valentine's Day.
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Manifestos,
Constitutions, Declarations ...oh my!
By Dcrux
I was, by my own count, one of the only Cluetrain dissidents. (I got on the Gluetrain). With such sites like ChangeThis offering a Manifesto on Manifestos ...and The Design Constitution ...and even a Declaration of Innovation, I'm a little turned off by the idea.
Not that I don't welcome our new marketing overlords, mind you. But I don't really see these as overly effective -- after the first one or umteenth thousand.
I once asked a manifesto-head (cluetrain) what he, himself changed after signing
on. He didn't think he had to change anything, nor did he think that was the point.
Of course not, these things are for signing up to prove you "get change" and support
the movement(?) (Without going through the expense of getting one of those little
bracelets). So, given the violently disruptive history of the manifesto, this
seems a pretty harmless mental sedative. Apparently the revolution will not only
be televised, but will have its own commercial featuring a drive through window
for your consumer convenience.
Revolution as a consumer good ...interesting. Manifestos as an ad buy or feel-good
affirmation? ...hmmm. The manifesto is -- or it used to be -- about change. Sometimes
wrenching, uncomfortable change. Have you thought about either writing one or
following one, and what changed?
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