Frugal Friday’s Workwear Report: Ella V-Neck Pullover Sweater
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I was early to meet a friend for lunch last weekend and decided to kill some time looking for a new fall sweater or two. I wandered through Anthropologie, Talbots, Loft, and White House Black Market without success before I decided to pop into Chico’s to see if they had anything worth trying on.
I hit the jackpot. They had a motherlode of perfect not-too-thick, not-too-thin sweaters in a variety of sleeve lengths and necklines. I grabbed this V-neck in “deep chianti” and a short-sleeved version in “empire blue.”
I should note that the fit on these is generous, so I went down a full size lower than normal. I honestly probably could have gone down two sizes if I were looking for a snug fit.
The sweater is $49.50, marked down from $79, at Chico’s. Chico’s has its own sizing, but it's generally equivalent to XS-XXL.
Sales of note for 9/5/25
- Nordstrom – Summer sale has started, up to 60% off top brands
- Ann Taylor – Friends of Ann Event: 30% off your entire purchase, including new arrivals
- Anthropologie – 30% off clothing and accessories
- Banana Republic Factory – Up to 50% off everything + extra 20% off
- J.Crew – Everyday styles from $34.50 — see our full roundup of what to buy for work at J.Crew
- J.Crew Factory – 50% off fall faves + extra 60% off clearance
- L.K. Bennett – 20% off all new-season
- Nordstrom Rack – Season Closeout: extra 40% off select clearance dresses, sandals, shorts, and swimwear(ends 9/11)
- Rothy's – Up to 50% off last-chance sales
- Soma – 5 panties for $39 + 35% off 3+ styles + buy 2 get 3 free panties — readers love these PJs and these no-VPL panties
- Talbots – 25-40% off select fall styles + extra 30% all markdowns — here are all the reader favorites at Talbots
- White House Black Market – 50% off all sale styles (ends 9/5)
Our midsize regional firm’s recruiting committee is in an uproar because of 1Ls getting offers from firms for 2L summer before they even take 1L second semester exams. Is this happening near you? Is this temporary? I hear economic uncertainty warnings but also are there not enough lawyers? I am confused.
Legal recruiter here and yes, this began a couple of years ago. Large firms began competing for talent, and giving very early offers is a way to snag the “best” without increasing salaries. It’s a huge disservice to just about everyone.
I thought no one hired 1Ls? And then for 2L summer hiring theory grades should be in by Memorial Day, no?
People are getting 2L summer job offers based on their fall 1L grades. Its really common now among the top firms.
Fine for Cravath but IDK how this moves the needle and “top” may have some flux in it. I really think that the top quarter isn’t so different than the top ten and the rare gems often seem to be good but maybe not the top just based on raw data at maybe the top 50 law schools. I’ve just seen so many people not be good lawyers even if they were eleven stellar students. Great lawyers were likely never horrible students so rely on fit with the school or a broader band and you will get good people.
The firms that are doing this recruiting aren’t going solely based on grades if you’re at a top law school, which is generally where this super-early recruiting is focused. It’s a reason my law school experience was a lot more relaxed than my peers’ at lower-ranked schools.
But yes, it’s a thing. It places a lot of importance on adapting quickly to law school.
And yet clients are B/C students.
I got one 25 years ago at my biglaw firm. I don’t think this is new.
My perception is that this happened and the trend was accelerating through 2006? 2007? Then totally disappeared in the great recession and everyone settled down and stayed settled for a number of years, and the question really is whether it’s back now.
Ah, that could very well be the case – I left law firm life ages ago and lost track of these things.
Are you misreading OP’s post to mean an offer for the summer after 1L? That didn’t happen 25y ago. OP means an offer during spring of 1L year for the summer after 2L year, over a year in advance.
correction, I’m anon above. I meant that offers over a year in advance didn’t happen 25y ago. offers for 1L summer during 1L spring did happen.
Yes they did, I didn’t misread.
There are basically no rules on timing of recruiting for any law school class year now. Firms are recruiting very early as well as year-round now.
Yes, this is the case at my v20 firm.
Internal Legal Recruiting manager here. It’s absolutely bat shi!t crazy. OCI is moving to January and February. Everyone I talk to in the industry thinks it’s a bad idea, and does a disservice to the students and a disservice to the firm, and yet we are racing to the bottom because of talent wars.
Sincere question: do you really think you’re identifying the best talent this way?
At least if you have an entire year of grades, you can identify the kids who were shocked at how different law school is from college, then hit their stride second semester and got onto Law Review by a combination of grades and writing or writing alone.
I worry that a lot of good first semester 1L grades are going to reflect knowledge of how law school works just as much as… whatever raw legal talent is identified by law school grades.
Question for any fellow crafters: I am an avid cross stitcher. I can easily clear through 500-1000 stitches in a night if I’m locked in, and therefore go through projects quite quickly. However, I realistically cannot decorate my entire home in framed cross stitch canvases and it makes me sad to just put them in storage after.
Currently, I have a customizable baby sampler pattern that I make and frame for my new mom friends, and I’m considering posting in my city’s mom group offering to make them for anyone who’s interested. I’ve also considered just making pieces I like and offering them up for free on FB marketplace after. But any ideas for things that might be semi-practical and able to be given away as gifts to people I actually know?
The caveat is that I have a small apartment with no room for a sewing machine or supplies that take up a lot of space, so things like pillows or christmas stockings aren’t ideal. I can embroider articles of clothing but don’t have many ideas outside of monograms.
I have no need or desire to charge for anything I make (the materials are very cheap, and I don’t want the pressure of a deadline). I just want things to work on that might actually spark joy and get used, vs sitting in a scrapbook gathering dust once I’m finished.
Same. Not as prodigious. Switched to knitting and donate baby blankets and prayer shawls when no babies are in the mix among family and friends. I’ve thought of kneelers for church but that seems to be more needlepoint.
It’s so tough! I tried to get into knitting because it seemed more practical but never got the hang of it. Kneelers for church is a good idea–you could definitely do that with cross stitch if you found the right pattern
are you able to design your own patterns? I would love something like a cross stitch of the restaurant from our first date – think engagement gift – or our new home as a housewarming, etc.
Oh that’s a great idea! There are programs you can run photos through and it will convert it into a pattern. I did one of a particular lighthouse in my parents’ coastal town that turned out well. Thank you :)
I know someone who cross stitches custom gifts for her friends in our niche scientific field portraying their research topics. It works when the gift is very, very specific and made with knowledge of the person you’re making it for. I don’t think I’d have much interest in a generic cross stitch, though.
Yes for sure! That’s why the baby samplers and marriage samplers are nice because you can customize the colors to the nursery/wedding color scheme, add in the names/dates, etc. and make them personal. But only so many births and marriages in a year!
I love your friend’s idea–does she just do them on canvas or does she turn them into an iron on patch/sticker/something else?
Sorry, I haven’t paid attention to those details as I’m not in the slightest bit crafty myself!
Needlepoint is useful for chair cushions and reupholstery. You might also contact your local historical society or living history/house museum. They might have an outlet for you if youre open to embroidery or needlepoint.
Can you gift people things? I’m more of a multi crafter (sewing, embroidery, crochet for me). I make hats, bags, art etc for people depending on their interests. I live somewhere cold so a black beanie is basically a universally loved item. I’m also a very meticulous crafter so none of my gifts look ‘home made’.
My Grandmother was a very talented cross-stitcher. I treasure the large holiday-themed gifts she made for me. I take them out every year, but it’s nice not to feel pressure to keep them up all year long. If folks in your orbit celebrate any of the winter holidays, that could be a nice gift.
This is bringing back fond memories of some of the framed holiday cross stitch pieces my mom displayed every year. She’d just swap out the normal art work after Thanksgiving , and take it down in Jan. +1
There are seamstresses who work with quilters; maybe one of them would be willing to make your pieces into pillows or stockings?
Your post sparked joy in me this morning – you have something that you enjoy doing and want to offer it to do for other people.
In the short term, you could set up a burner email and post here every few months and ask this community if anyone wants anything. Especially with upcoming holidays, I bet you could get a lot of interest and requests on this board.
I don’t really have ideas for you. But I wanted to reply because of the smile you brought to my heart as I have coffee at my desk this morning.
I would love to receive Christmas ornaments. Small, don’t require holes in the wall, and so special to bring out every year.
I love these too! I’m always so happy when I find some at craft fairs.
I had a preemie and was magnificently touched by all the donated items from strangers. They had a little basket by the front and it was full of blankets and hats and booties and things. I can’t tell you how much it brightened what was otherwise a terrible time to go through it every now and then and pick things for my baby. It brought me enormous comfort and joy. I’m actually tearing up just thinking about it. I kept all of them.
This is good to know. For me, it’s been decades of “I shot an arrow in the air; it fell to earth I know not where.” Hugs, in the form of crafting.
It was just wonderful. I should note, this would be a NICU donation. The other option that people don’t immediately think about as much are donations for full term babies born sleeping. That is another area where they get fewer donations but have needs.
A fellow daycare parent lost a baby within the first days and I am tearing up remembering (gosh, 10 years ago?!) when she told me how much donations of crafted items to the NICU meant to her. “I can get through this day because someone made these booties with love for a stranger.”
If you want to sew but don’t have the space for it, have you considered that your local library might have a makerspace or sewing room? Our local libraries have a pretty impressive array of things including multiple types of sewing machines.
A domestic violence shelter in your area might love to have crafty items to decorate their walls. Women leaving shelter for their own place who have kids might also like a baby sampler to take with them as new home decor. Handmade baby items, especially washable cotton or acrylic baby blankets, are also in high demand. Signed, former DV shelter manager
I love cross stitching on flour sack towels and they’re endlessly useful.
I am a knitter and knit way more than family and friends need. I connected with a local foster care group and now knit for foster kids. The group gives me sizes, favorite colors and style info – so I can knit something they might like to have. I do it anonymously but the group often gives me thank you notes from the kids, which are always so touching and you realize how little they have and how much they appreciate something that was specifically for them.
Have you heard of Loose Ends Project? They connect skilled volunteer textile artists with people whose loved ones left an unfinished project behind so the volunteer can finish out the WIP and return it so it can be cherished in complete form.
I would love to have something you created! What a generous way to use a skill you enjoy. I think art made by hand is just the most fantastic thing.
All this vaccine chaos and yet RFK Jr. is backing off any restrictions on two risk factors that are actually possibly linked to autism (pesticide exposure and air pollution). Nope, that would cost some industries too much!
I hate that we (reasonable, educated people) are inexplicably still expected to act like these ghouls are running the government in good faith.
Pollution is fine. Red dye is the problem. (sarcasm, obviously)
NYT had an article the other day about how Parkinson’s disease is linked to pesticides. Rates of Parkinson’s have gone way up since pesticide use became more common, and people who live within a mile of a golf course have are 2.26x more likely to get diagnosed with it than people who live 6 miles away because of how much they use to keep the lawns looking nice. Meanwhile pesticide companies keep lobbying that there’s no real evidence that they cause Parkinson’s. Other countries banned this stuff years ago.
I’m still disturbed by the studies finding that popular herbicides used in farming and lawn care have been discovered to obstruct GLP1 production in humans, as do a lot of popular food additives like carrageenan. Do these kinds of things have enough of an effect to contribute to obesity or the need for GLP1 meds? We’ll have to see if anyone funds the kind of study that could draw a firm conclusion.
Should I start microdosed tirzepatide? I’m 40. My BMI is 22, so I do not need to lose weight. I exercise regularly, including strength training. But food, and especially sugar, has always been something I struggle with. I am constantly eating and am quite honestly very surprised that I have maintained my weight my whole adult life because I definitely eat A LOT. I definitely consume way too much sugar and I eat a lot of candy (like gummies, sour patch kids, etc). The last time I got blood work my glucose levels were in the 90s. So not technically high, but higher than they should be.
I just feel like my whole adult life I have been on this cycle of vowing to change my eating habits but never actually doing it. Though outwardly I appear healthy and fit, I am scared that if I don’t control the eating and sugar it’s going to catch up with me in a bad way. Is this a good option? Would it work to really change my eating habits? I’d be fine losing 5-10 lbs but that not the main goal.
No you should focus on getting a grip. You’re already thin. Not everything is about you get a hobby.
These seem like wonderful questions to ask a doctor.
My phone is losing battery very, very fast during the day. I have had it for nearly 10 years so it is time to upgrade. I have an old iPhone. I have never “turned a phone in” for an upgrade discount in the past, but it seems like the new normal. I’m a lawyer and nervous that the factory reset won’t really…reset? everything. Do you have any concerns about turning the old phone in?
Apple does a lot of things badly, but they actually do security pretty well. A factory re-set is a complete re-set. I have turned in devices (and passed them along to family members) multiple times without concern.
I have been told to be sure I un-paired any paired devices before executing the re-set. I am not sure how necessary that is, but I have followed the advice.
They probably won’t even take a phone that old as a trade in. No, I have never worried about this.
Your 10 year old phone is basically worth nothing.
They’re not going to take a phone that old as a trade in, at least not for money, though they might take it for waste disposal. But a factory reset should be fine.
for a 10 year old phone, I’d just keep it or have it securely destroyed – the cash value will be negligible. Though in general I do think Apple’s resets are real.
Apple will recycle phones that are too old to trade in. I trust their security more than that of other recyclers.
You can factory reset the phone yourself if it bothers you. Just make sure you have a solid icloud backup before you do it.
They won’t pay out any value for a phone that old, but they should accept it for recycling.
You can also just buy a new phone while keeping the old one. Consider how much you would get on the trade-in and decide if it’s worth it to do so.
They’re not going to take a phone that old so don’t even worry about it.
Keep the old phone. You might need it for some random two factor or high security account login you forgot to transfer to the new phone.
Would you be annoyed by this? We are practically done with a major kitchen/living room remodel. Everything is done except for about a day’s worth of electrical work.
We can’t use the stove, oven, dishwasher, or insinkerator until it’s done, and we cannot put things in our cabinets until it’s done either (some lighting which will involve drilling into cabinets).
We have been in this almost-done stage for two weeks. Contractor tells me the electrician apologizes but “he had something come up” and he “should” be back next week.
Electrician has never worked on our house for more than 3 hours at a time, often announcing to me that he simply doesn’t feel like working anymore and is going home for the day. We have put a lot of money into this reno and we are increasingly frustrated that this last part is taking so long. I haven’t had a working kitchen since June and we are a family with 3 kids under 5.
Yes, I would absolutely be annoyed by this. I would expect the contractor to call in a different electrician.
yes, and what does your contract say – do you have a decent size payment that the GC doesn’t get until it’s DONE?
Yes, we owe the GC about 30k more. I would think the GC would have a bit more of a fire lit to get their money, but evidently not. Although I understand that renovations often take longer than anticipated, it’s frustrating that zero work has been done at all for two weeks.
In GC land, that’s not that much money. Certainly not enough to strain the relationship of an electrician he will work on for future jobs.
As someone just starting a whole house reno, I’m furious for you. I’d call your contractor every day until Mr. Electrician or a substitute manages to make an appearance.
I would request a substitute at this point or just call one yourself.
Cheap, fast, good. Pick two.
We’ve gotten one of those! 140k ain’t cheap and 3 months ain’t fast.
Heh in the scheme of things, 3 months is fast. Sadly.
Also in your shoes I would be livid!
My understanding is that this is perfectly normal, unfortunately. I would ask whether you can engage another electrician and deduct the amount they charge from your final payment to the GC.
I also think it’s the norm. People in my midrise condo building have asked what work I have had done, who did it, cost, and was I happy with it. Most have been horrified by what I pay for the work I’ve had done. But contractor shows up on the day and at the hour appointed. He stays on site while his subs work and supervises their coming and going and their work, and moves them along or assists if needed. All work is done to perfection. The only delays are when an unexpected matter is uncovered while doing the work and it cannot be handled at that moment by whomever is there right then. I will cheerfully pay through the effing nose for this level of service and quality work. I think what OP is experiencing is sadly normal.
OP I would tell contractor in great and exacting detail is going on with the electrician and demand that another one be used and done immediately. I honestly don’t know if that will work, but I’d sure give it a try.
No advice but commiseration – we had the WORST time with our electrician during our renovation, and they actually did a bunch of things wrong. I think small jobs are just not a priority for them at all, at least in our market. I’m guessing they make most of their money on new buildings or something.
Can you ask the GC if there is another electrician he can recommend?
My DH is suffering from overactive bladder. Whenever he thinks about having to urinate, the urge is so strong that he could wet his pants if he doesn’t get to a restroom right away. This can be a problem if we are driving somewhere. However, if he occupies his mind with a busy project or conference call, he is totally fine for hours. He is young and healthy and exercises and eats well. We saw a urologist who says it’s basically a mental issue not a physical issue. Has anyone else experienced this? How did you fix it?
He can do pelvic floor physical therapy – it’s not just for women. They would walk through behavior and lifestyle factors, plus any physical or muscular issues that can affect the bladder. I’d get a second opinion from a different urologist, though.
+1. This is/was my primary symptom along with painful cramping in my pelvic floor area (spasms). Therapy almost completely eliminated the urinary issues in ~4 weeks.
I would get a second opinion.
+1
+1 – if nothing else, there is medication available, at least for women, and I’m not sure why that wouldn’t work for men too.
Pelvic floor physical therapy. It very much is mental but that doesn’t mean there aren’t tool you can learn to retrain yourself.
Does he have OCD (or at least anxiety) perhaps? This is a classic manifestation
Is he drinking enough water? I have issues with suddenly-need-to-go-or-else when I am dehydrated.
This doesn’t actually sound like a mental issue to me; we’re supposed to be able to think about having to urinate without the urge being that strong. Unless the urologist thinks that it’s somehow pathological to ever think about urination… which would be a weird position for a urologist to hold! It’s nice that distraction helps, but I think he needs more work up. Sometimes doctors who can’t find anything wrong in their speciality declare the symptoms “functional” which they assume means “psychosomatic,” when really it means “there’s something wrong with the nerves or the muscles or how they work together that can totally be addressed.” Even when it’s a nerve issue, it’s not always a central nervous system issue (as opposed to peripheral). But it would be great if this could be solved with pelvic floor PT as others have suggested.
Echoing that it can be a mental issue or dietary. Getting help for anxiety is one option and reviewing for any new foods / drinks that could be triggering it. A sleepy time tea triggered this for me. Turned out or more of the herbs in it were aggravating my bladder. Took a week of documenting everything I was eating and drinking and reviewing anything new / newer to figure that out.
Re the mental piece – does he wfh? After lockdowns I struggled with this in addition to mild agoraphobia since I had gotten so accustomed to rarely leaving my home. The urge to urinate is a documented symptom of anxiety. Curious if he’s been experiencing other anxiety symptoms around the time this started.
How would you feel about taking a job as GC, etc, in a lowbrow industry? Gambling, drinking, casinos, etc. Would you care? Would you worry about your professional reputation? I can’t decide if I need to get over myself here.
They’re only lowbrow morally. If the company is profitable, why hesitate? Puritanical values are such a bore.
Is it really so fun and exciting to provoke and exploit addictive tendencies in the vulnerable?
Damn those pesky morals, addicts deserve to die, face medical issues, and be separated from their money (or money of their loved ones obtained under suspect circumstances).
Maybe? Does the rest of the job suits your requirements (pay, benefits, work/life balance)? I know it’s not logical, but I’d say yes to alcohol (diageo/inbev) before gambling, no to the legal marijuana industry, and no to tobacco as I’ve had too many relatives die of smoking related cancers.
Yah tbh I would be okay with something in the drinking industry MAYBE, because in moderation wine or a cocktail with friends can be an enjoyable part of life. There is no level of healthy with gambling, smoking, and (to me) drugs…
science also shows there is no healthy level of drinking
So you’re okay with the drug that you enjoy in moderation, but not with drugs that other people enjoy in moderation?
I wouldn’t mix this up with puritanical values. There are a lot of vices that are fun for the people who aren’t going to blow up their lives over them. At the same time, it can still be unethical to profit specifically off the people who do, while fighting regulation to make these industries safer. People who drink, smoke, gamble, etc. can still be against predatory practices in those industries.
I would never. No amount of money or desperation would make me.
I 100% would not, but I’m a quintessential Type 1 Enneagram.
I would not do it. How could I give my best effort for something I didn’t believe in / actively thought was harmful?
They exception might be if I were out of work for months and had a family to feed, then it’s a different type of moral equation
This. I wouldn’t call this a “lowbrow” industry, I call it a “vice” industry. I had a opportunity at one of the major sports betting companies, and then my husband asked whether I would be able to sleep at night if I spent my days enabling addiction… many/most people play responsibly, but once I thought about it in those terms, I realized it wasn’t for me.
I similarly don’t think I could work for a tobacco company. Alcohol I probably could rationalize, but to me there’s not much redeeming value in tobacco or gambling.
I feel weird about preferring old world substance use to new world substance use, but I guess the tobacco industry doesn’t really represent indigenous tradition anyway.
That’s a fair point. I think the difference for me is that I’m a social user of alcohol. I am not a tobacco user. I hate the smell & trash of cigarettes and would prefer that product just didn’t exist, and believe they harm people who aren’t their direct consumers even with “responsible” use via second and third hand smoke.
Not entirely logically-consistently, I’d probably work for a gun manufacturer before a tobacco company, but not as GC if it meant advocating against gun control. (I’m not a lawyer, and I have several hunters in my extended family.)
I blame alcohol for a lot of DUI mortality, but I know there are additional factors (like car centric urban design).
Same. I have an acquaintance who works in what they are pleased to call “gaming,” and I do wonder how he sleeps at night.
Coming back to say this particular gaming person is involved in introducing it at large scale to underdeveloped countries and it gives me all the icks.
I personally would not. I don’t support those types of things personally and would not want to devote my professional life supporting them either.
They cause a lot of harm to a lot of people and I would not feel comfortable perpetuating that harm. For similar reasons, I would not work for a gun maker or tobacco company either.
I wouldn’t do it. I worked in asbestos defense as a desperate recession-era grad and it bothered me every day. Exploitative industries will bug you too.
Only if I was in a small market without other options. The people drawn to these industries have a higher default level of sketchiness.
Is the issue the “lowbrow” nature to you, or the morality issue? I don’t care if something is “lowbrow” but if I had a moral problem with the existence of the industry I would not be in-house counsel there. There are very few things like that for me, but I can tell that some posters here have moral problems with almost everything.
Also, as someone in St. Louis the idea of drinking as “lowbrow” is funny to be. In-house at our big booze company is a very respectable job here.
I don’t view those the same way. A liquor company like Diageo or similar? Absolutely I’d take it. Big wine, big beer, same thing. I find casinos kind of gross and wouldn’t want to spend a lot of time in them, which would happen if you for one so probably not. But if I lived in Las Vegas, my answer would be very different. Also depends on the legal team a d ability to recruit – a weak team makes a GC job a nightmare and a strong one a dream gig. Signed, a GC
Depends on the industry. I wouldn’t be the GC for P@rnHub or Pl@yb0y. But I would for Anheuser Busch or Jack Daniels.
This exactly. In Kentucky, the in-house jobs with distilleries are quite competitive. I would have a different view of some gambling companies (are they casinos that cater to people who can afford to gamble, or are they online betting companies whose sole aim is to prey on the vulnerable?).
When I started practicing law, I had two “no-go” industries: tobacco and guns. I later added Oxy. That said, I would and have represented alcoholic beverage manufacturers (wineries are fun clients!) and casinos and would have had no qualms about going in-house for either (I am honestly a bit surprised at the number of people who seem to think gambling is inherently evil). They were great clients who were a lot more concerned with legal compliance than a lot of other industries I worked with.
Of course, I was not lucky enough to get an in-house job with either, so I picked a much duller field because in-house life is so much better than law firm life!
I understand this now but at first I thought you meant oxyclean (like, for helping laundry that has yellowed) and I was perplexed as to why they were one of the Big Bads!
I’m not a lawyer but I knew a woman who was GC for a huge tobacco company and I must be a little judgy, because I last saw her 30 years ago and I still remember.
OxyContin is a good example of how it’s okay to object to industry practices (getting people hooked and supporting a street market) while also supporting responsible/legitimate use (it can be very okay to treat pain with pain meds and only some people appear to be susceptible to misuse).
Gently, if you’re asking here then it would likely bother you eventually.
I am in-house counsel for a licensed cannabis company. I started out working with the company as a firm lawyer when my state had only medical cannabis. I went in-house when my state fully legalized. I personally do not use cannabis and I absolutely know it has negative consequences. I have viewed my job as ensuring that the industry, my company’s products, and our workplaces are as compliant and transparent as they can be. Cannabis was going to be legalized with or without me. It will be grown and sold with or without me. But WITH me, employees are treated fairly, customers receive transparency, and the company complies with regulations. People are going to gamble with or without you. But WITH you, it might be just a little bit better.
Certain of those lowbrow industries could get you tied in with organized crime. I’d be careful about that.
Agreed. Anything that’s human trafficking-adjacent is a warning.
Looking for fall getaway advice. We’re coming from Houston and the never-changing seasons and constant heat always gets to me around the fall, so for the past few years my bf and I have done a long weekend fall trip – two years ago it was Asheville and last year it was New England. We were planning one for the middle of October to Blue Ridge, GA – cute little town with good restaurants, cozy cabin, pretty views and Atlanta is an easy flight for us. Unfortunately an unexpected work trip to Charlotte has come up. Does anyone have any good suggestions around Charlotte (not Asheville) that we should check out? Or should we stick with the original plan and just pick a different weekend? Alternatively, any other fall spots we should add to our list?
Poll: Is it acceptable to take calls on speaker phone in cubicle farms?
Context: recurring issue (so they didn’t just forget headphones), we have sound proof telephone booths available, this is a nobody junior staff.
No way. That’s so rude.
Never.
No.
Poll: Is it acceptable to put employees who need to be on calls all day in a cubicle farm?
Right? lol. One of the top benefits of WFH for me has been so much less cacophony.
Well, it’s not as rude as calling someone a “nobody junior staff,” but it is definitely rude and it’s something a supervisor should have shut down. I’m guessing people in your office are really passive if no one has gone and used their words with this person yet.
+1. Yikes.
+2
No, but neither is referring to someone as a nobody.
+1000
Yeah, good grief.
Nope, definitely not.
Speaker phone? Very rude and should be shut down.
Regular phone, just without headphones? That’s part of life in a cube, but they should be mindful of their volume and not be unnecessarily loud.
It’s pretty common to be necessarily loud though if any of those calls are going to cellphones!
Hello, our smart advisor (and anyone else who cares to add their advice). I need more of your great advice. As I look to retire, how do you manage your Calendar? I’ve lived off my Microsoft calendar at the office for years for everything from work to physician appointments and Board meetings. What’s a better option in retirement? I love tech but could transition to paper- Thank you!
I just use the calendar on my phone, and if it’s something my husband is involved in I include him as an “invitee.” We also have a paper wall calendar in the laundry room/poantry area and at the beginning of each month we have a monthly meeting and look at our phones and computers and actually write the important events on the paper calendar so we can see them on a regular basis. It just helps them get into our (my) minds.
I use the Apple calendar app to aggregate my personal calendar, work calendar, and other shared calendars. I also have the Microsoft for Mac desktop apps, and like the calendar interface there in Outlook. (I use Outlook to aggregate my multiple email addresses.) I’d probably use it if I weren’t in the Apple world.