http://yworking.com generation y is at your service. sort of. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 20:54:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I haven't been updating this blog lately for a variety of reasons. The first (and most important) is that it's summer, and in the summer it's important not to spend all your time trying to land on the front page of digg. In the summer; it's important to relax. The other ... http://yworking.com/technology/i-like-to-read-on-the-internet/ From The Globe & Mail: The Nova Scotia government is looking at switching to a four-day work week in a bid to conserve energy. Energy Minister Richard Hurlburt said Thursday the idea came up during a brainstorming session at Conserve Nova Scotia, a government agency that encourages people to use energy more ... http://yworking.com/news/asides/four-day-work-week/ One of the more unifying traits of Generation Y is their desire to do important work that has meaning. For those that can afford it, this often manifests itself as volunteer, not-for-profit or NGO ((NGO is a really stupid, term, by the way. Here are a list of literal non-governmental ... http://yworking.com/attitude/the-catch-22-of-finding-meaningful-work/ I'm over five years removed from my last job interview, and I'm pretty happy about that. A big part of me hopes that I never have to go through the long and terrible process of applying and interviewing for a job again. Maybe some people get kind of a twisted ... http://yworking.com/attitude/should-we-present-ourselves-more-honestly/ I'm just coming off a mini-vacation (more posts later this week, I promise) but I thought this was interesting. From the Something Awful forums, it's a thread about how to avoid "getting in trouble" for reading web forums at work. At my old job, I had my own office and there ... http://yworking.com/news/asides/cat-and-mouse/ Interesting -- if slightly familiar-sounding -- article from The Guardian this past week: Generation Game. It's all kind of a cliché at this point ("They are nicknamed the diva generation - high maintenance, out for themselves, lacking in loyalty, thinking only in the short-term and their own place in ... http://yworking.com/culture/generation-y-hippies-revisited-are-we-just-fighting-the-man/ Generation Y Veneration has some predictions about working from home: Despite the ability for many people in my industry (and other industries) to work from home everyday if they wanted to, they don’t. Why? Because nothing beats a face to face conversation. I think it's dangerous to conflate 'working at home' to 'never leaving ... http://yworking.com/at-work/working-at-home-not-all-it-cracked-up-to-be/ The aforementioned post by Ryan Healy sparked off a whole bunch of comments, as posts on Brazen Careerist tend to do. One, in particular, by a poster calling himself 'jrandom42' sparked some thinking. The comment: Bluntly put, nobody gets a free pass on anything, until they can prove to me that ... http://yworking.com/attitude/gen-y-is-not-asking-for-special-treatment/ My post last week on using Facebook at work generated quite a stir when it was made top story at Brazen Careerist. Apparently it's a touchy subject. Who knew? http://yworking.com/news/asides/more-facebook-at-work-discussion/ Great post from Ryan Healy over at Employee Evolution: When you were an entry level worker, maybe you wouldn’t have dreamed of calling your girlfriend to say hello right after lunch or dialing up your mechanic to schedule a time to drop your car off for service. But work and life ... http://yworking.com/news/asides/seven-things-to-look-past/