Working and Pregnant at the Same Time

If you are a mother, kudos to you not because I know how hard it is to juggle quality family time with work, but also due to the fact you carry a tiny human in you during the full nine months while you are working full time. This does not come easy. Gentlemen, please do…

Different Type of Secretaries and Personal Assistants

I have done different types of colleagues and bosses. Today, let’s delve into someone close to heart, the person who holds the key to your boss’s. The Very Important Person in your company (other than the Head of HR, of course) is the Personal Assistant or Secretary of your boss. Ms All Important She has…

The Manager’s Secrets

As a manager, you touch lives. They never told me that when I became one and I never knew the impact I had on shaping so many people’s lives until I left the corporate world. Every time I come back to Singapore, I am so fortunate to be overwhelmed with invitations to luncheons and dinners,…

Company Policies that do more harm than good

Most of the companies offer benefits range from basics like annual leaves and annual medical check-ups to luxurious like exorbitant healthcare for your spouse or annual sponsored overseas holiday trips. However, there are some policies that I have come across in my employment that just doesn’t work the way it should be or rather, does…

12 Things You can do to Hurt Your Boss Pretty Bad

Often than not, I talked about how bad management can get but one must not neglect the feelings of your boss, after all your boss is also a human. I can be hurt as well. I don’t just think that you are robots hired to do my bidding and I don’t take you as slaves…

Is Honesty Truly The Best Policy?

We often are caught in between in our lives, whether it is from one friend to another or an over caring relative asking when are you going to get married for the ample time or your mother asking you how is work. Unless you are going to dump all the work troubles like how your…

Guest Post: A good posture by CHAPE

I know you love CHAPE‘s previous post and I love his healthy outlook in life and how he improves our lives stuck in the office cubicle, typing furiously in order to finish that dreaded report before you can go home. I have tried his exercise and kept to it religously to relive my constant shoulder…