Friday

April is the Time to Start Looking for a New Job

If you are sick and tired of going to the same workplace doing the same things, now is the time to start looking!  Monster posted 100 companies that are looking for workers, here are 20 to get you started.  

1. Aflac 1,893
2. AT&T 791
3. T-Mobile 533
4. Unitedhealth Group 530
5. Pilot Flying J 521
6. Advantage Solutions 496
7. H.I.S. 471
8. Avon 464
9. Stanley Black & Decker 426
10. Wells Fargo 387
11. Sprint   361
12. Brookdale Senior Living 336
13. MathWorks 251
14. Hertz   236
15. Laboratory Corporation of America 195
16. UPS 174
17. Knowledge Universe Education 164
18. Gentiva Health Services 159
19. Giant Eagle 148
20. Coldwell Banker

See more jobs.

Sunday

Issues at Work Do Follow You to Your Residence

It is a harsh reality, the workplace stress not only affects work performance, but those you live with as well.  Long hours at work take away time from family.  Critical managers, demanding business owners, ill-equipped workers, budget issues and more can turn one's once positive personality completely upside down.  And where does the seemingly self-controlled individual end up dumping his or her woes?  On his or her closest loved ones.

Online media reports tell of workplace related stress adding a few pounds too.  So not only is one disgruntled about work, but he or she is eating for comfort too while watching TV or surfing the 'Net late into the night.

The pendulum of mood swings go from right to left with many unhappy workers and usually end up hitting a few too many times into the unsuspecting on the home-front.

"It isn't work making me act like this...it's you!"  A workaholic reasons his or her family is to blame.  "I really wish you all would be more understanding!  I am under a lot of pressure at work...will you just leave me alone!" the one who once wore a happy mask starts to unravel.

So check yourself before checking others this week.  Something is obvious wrong and the workplace definitely has something to do with it.  There is nothing wrong with taking some lunch time and/or a personal day to figure some things out.  When everything else comes to an end, all you have left is the family you choose to allow in your life.

Nicholl McGuire


Thursday

Numbers Don't Lie - Watch How Many Minorities are Laid Off or Terminated From Positions as Compared to Others

It happens a company has to let go of jobs in order to save money, change current systems, relocate, and more.  However, when you begin to see a pattern at different places you have worked, your eyes aren't deceiving you!  Minorities, women, seniors, those with vested interest in the company, temps, and students are usually the first to be let go before others irregardless of those who perform good work performance and have exceptional attendance. You have to know it is systematic and also bias. Here are some links to articles that share some facts you might have overlooked or didn't think to consider.

Lay-offs

Blacks hit hardest by public-sector job losses during recession, study finds

Apparently You Can Get Laid Off While Pregnant

Who's Displaced First?

Last Hired, First Hired

Postal job cuts would weigh on minorities, vets

Laid Off, With Retirement Almost in Sight

What are my rights as the minority shareholder who is being laid off by majority shareholder?

Wrongful Terminations

CNN Hit With $5 Million Bias And Wrongful Termination Suit

Workers Sue McDonald's for Racism, Sexual Harassment, and Wrongful Termination

Is your company next to lay off some people? See Daily Job Cuts

How to Tell a Layoff is Coming