It's not me, it's my boss...oh really?
If your manager makes you want to go home and scream into a pillow every single night, or you’ve taken up kickboxing just so you can picture your manager’s face on the bag, then keep reading.
Sounds like you are suffering from a toxic relationship with your boss. You are not alone—an EY study (detailed in the Harvard Business Review) reported that 58% of people trust strangers more than their own boss! That’s right, they trust a random person off the street more than they trust the guy responsible for their development, compensation, and day-to-day happiness. Pretty scary!
A Fire at the Start of the New Year
Happy New Year! I hope your year is off to an amazing start but if it isn’t, you are in good company. Neither has mine! I started the year recovering from the flu and with a fire in the apartment below mine. Yep, you heard that right. Last Monday, when I was alone with my three kids having dinner (my husband was away on business), 4 firefighters burst into our apartment shoving desks, chairs, nightstands out of their way. The smoke from the fire below our apartment started to fill up fast in my bedroom as the firefighters worked and I shuffled my 7-year-old son, 2-year-old twins and our dog into a different bedroom. I was preparing to get them out of the apartment when a firefighter surprised me by saying that we are actually safer in the apartment then going down the stairs. Long story short, we are all fine although my apartment does smell like a BBQ festival gone bad, besides that, the drama is over.