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I love my job until very recently. Our company was acquired by a much larger organization. In fact, it was one of the top 50 companies in this country. It’s huge. I can deal with the politics of a much larger organization. After all, I have seen and experienced plenty of corporate politics. What is [...]

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In my last post “I’m done with him”, I shared the story that Julie fed up with her colleague and Adam and came to tell her manager “I’m done with him!”. Julie could have a million legitimate reasons to complain about Adam’s performance. However, when she said “I’m done with him”, she lost. She made [...]

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I ran into a former coworker of mine last week. He has been a very experienced ad sales person in the online display advertising industry. I have been working on the product management side of display advertising for the past three years. We both left online display advertising recently and joined e-commerce companies. Amazingly, we [...]

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Last five months have been very intense to me. I switched job in the beginning of May. It has tremendous amount of hard work, but I can honestly say to myself I truly enjoyed my job. The down side is that I’m so into the job that I rarely found time to blog. I haven’t [...]

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A lot of them are super arrogant. A lot of them are super greedy — they want to make a lot of money as soon as possible. They’re only interested in "strategy work". They talk big and think big. But, they cannot execute. They care more about job titles than job content. They think they’re [...]

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“We might not have believed it when we said it in our first team meeting in the fall, but if we focus and do our jobs, then why can’t we play for a national championship? That’s been our focus all along. I walked out of that room and I kind of thought, ‘I hope we’ll [...]

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Tip from a fellow reader: Tocquigny, ranked as the #2nd best b2b digital marketing firm behind Digitas, cuts 13% of their workforce. Are we going to see more layoffs in the advertising agency worlds? I think so. Ad spending is dropping, and agency’s main cost drivers are people. Recommended posts Ten things you should do [...]

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XO Communication announced on Friday, 2/13/2009 that they are laying off 290 people in the Dallas Area. Charles Rivers Laboratories just laid off 35 people in Spencerville, OH on Feb 10, 2009 The Medical Center of Central Georgia announced staff reductions late last year (2008) totaling 208 due to “position cuts”. Related posts that might [...]

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Note: I changed the text a little bit to protect confidentiality. “I got laid off from Long Lines on 1-20-09 and they are hurting for money planning on 100 more cuts and 25 more in customer care.” “Boeing in Seattle is laying off PMs that they hired less than a year ago.  Not sure how [...]

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