This week (Febuary 28, 2012) marked Pink Shirt Day where people were asked to wear Pink to support the anti-bullying campaign and raise awareness of the effects of bullying in schools. Although it is known that bullying happens in schools, a lot of the time, bullying in the workplace, with ADULTS doesn’t get talked about much. Perhaps it’s taboo, I don’t know.
Bullying in adults sucks and I think it’s probably worse than bullying as children. Adult coworkers can be N-A-S-T-Y and spread rumors that could hurt your career and your reputation, your dignity, and your self-esteem. Loud disagreements and acts of bullying in the workplace makes the workplace a bad place to work and makes it uncomfortable for everyone in the office.
There’s some of this going down in the office where I work and it’s certainly making the work environment uncomfortable enough for me to not love going to work as much as I usually do.
Readers- is there bullying happening in your workplace? Anything being done about it?
Check out the video of Pink Shirt Day in Victoria, BC on our province’s parliament. Of course its to Lady Gaga’s Born this Way
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Well Heeled Blog hosted a great carnival by making it into a story!
I have a confession to make. The other day, I was being completely unfrugal and impulsive and I bought $30 worth of flowers. Yes, that’s right, flowers for my front garden. I bought some primulas, some tulips, and a planter full of flowers to brighten up the entrance in the backyard. I hope this isn’t a step towards trying to keep up with the Jones’ and having a decent looking front lawn. I was just getting tired of winter (and the rain) and it was the first nice, sunny day in a L-O-N-G time.
Was it shopping therapy disguised in aesthetically pleasing flowers? I don’t know.
What is your cure for the winter blues?
My fellow frugal friends, are you guilty of this from time-to-time too?
The Dividend Guy Blog (aka Mike from TFB) asked for my #1 advice on RRSP’s (since the deadline is a few days away). Check out mine and other Canadian PF blogger’s input here.
Control your Cash included me in his carnival and told me to go to Wreck Beach already
Boomer and Echo reviews Findependence Day and gives it away (written by Jon Chavreau- this book is REALLY good- I can’t put it down- I’ll be giving it away too next month- stay tuned)
Retireby40 argues why pregnancy is not too early to start saving for your child’s college (I assume it’s not your pregnancy, Joe that you’re talking about )
Congratulations to Michael E for winning the Secrets of a Stingy Scoundrel book giveaway! I’ll be sending your book shortly (as long as you have given me your address haha).
If you didn’t win the book, don’t fret, because there’s another giveaway on this blog. I know that basically every other blogger is giving away tax software, but I thought that if you weren’t able to get the prize there, but you certainly will have a higher chance to enter here! I know some of you might have already started on your tax return (and boy, do I envy you!) but in case you haven’t, it might help to get some tax software help.. for free!
I warn you though, this software only works with PCs (I’m sorry my fellow Mac friends!). Also this contest is only open to Canadian residents.
It does up to 16 tax returns (so you can do your grandparent’s taxes, your dog’s taxes, etc.) and includes free audit assistance online in case you’re strapped.
Retail value $29.99.
Good luck and thanks as always for reading! You can enter at the end of this post I’m going to make you sift through my PF Blog Love readings first.
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Sunil at Extra Money Online is giving away $2000 (yes, you read that right… $2000!!) So go enter here.
I had a realization this week, as I was trying to get home from the Lower Mainland area (which is for the record, against traffic). Usually it takes me 45 minutes to get home but instead it took me an hour and 30 minutes because of an accident. Earlier in the week, I was late 15 minutes because of an accident as well clogging up the highways. This is despite leaving the house with 20 minutes to spare. It’s so unpredictable and it really puts a dent in the day. I realized that if I cannot commute for more than 20 to 30 minutes a day. I just can’t. It drains my energy, makes me irritable, it takes up my time, it wastes my gas, and it makes my car feel even older by racking on the mileage.
I know that in many circumstances, there is no choice but to commute, but I think if I had to commute such a long duration to and from work, I would rather take public transportation because the commute would be a productive commute (reading, writing, thinking about life, instead of driving).
Thankfully, reading these PF blog love blog posts really calmed me down and I hope they can help you destress this weekend too.
Readers, what is the maximum tolerable number of minutes or hours that you can commute for?
My University Money tells us that grad school isn’t the answer, especially if you’re afraid of life and getting into the real world (He’s not talking about me.. I hope)
As you probably noticed, this blog has gotten a huge facelift. It’s brighter, less saggy, and more professional looking. I was getting sick of looking at the old theme, and there were so many issues with it (like not being able to see threaded comments or have threaded comments), the code on the pages became visible after I upgraded the wordpress editions, and the sidebars were too narrow and things often got cut off. It was just frustrating, sometimes I would spend HOURS (and days) trying to fix something and studying the CSS or whatnot to try and adjust things a bit. Now I learned my lesson and I won’t touch anything lol or else it might screw up the theme/ appearance of the blog.
It was about time I invested in this blog, and I’m loving the design and the look of it so far. It was great working with The Dividend Ninja who was basically the mastermind behind this entire design. He even got me to give up the old yellow-green apples on my header and replaced them with juicier, less stale looking apples. It was great to be able to meet up with him and describe what I wanted to see.
So my dear readers, thanks for putting up with the wonkiness of my website the past few weeks (the right sidebar completely disappeared one day- it was good timing because I was already starting to work on the new site with The Dividend Ninja!).
What do you think of the new look?
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This week’s link love has a lot of girl power! (With the exception of the boys, TDN, PIE, and RB40, of course). Have a great weekend!
Gotta give a shoutout to the designer of this new facelift The Dividend Ninja lists part 2 of the 2012 Canadian Stock Picks
The Passive Income Earner updates us with his first 2012 dividend income update. His goal is to get $7000 income in dividend stocks for 2012.
Also gotta give a shoutout to Give Me Back My Five Bucks who will be leaving for Germany very soon!
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