CNN has a list of the top 10 interview mistakes, which includes all sorts of odd behaviors in terms of grooming and hygiene gaffs, some oversharing, some underpreparation, and then plain rudeness:

• Candidate answered cell phone and asked the interviewer to leave her own office because it was a “private” conversation.

• Applicant told the interviewer he wouldn’t be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died - and his uncle wasn’t “looking too good.”

• The job seeker asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.

• The applicant smelled his armpits on the way to the interview room.

• Candidate said she could not provide a writing sample because all of her writing had been for the CIA and it was “classified.”

• Candidate told the interviewer he was fired for beating up his last boss.

• When the applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn’t want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.

• An applicant said she was a “people person” not a “numbers person” — in her interview for an accounting position.

• During a phone interview the candidate flushed the toilet while talking to hiring manager.

• The applicant took out a hair brush and brushed her hair.

Advice in the article seems pretty obvious.

I am wearing a hoodie, and have a master’s degree, but fight the urge to eat the Yogurt.

Via Feministing

Never Been Thawed is a mockumentary following the lives of the members of a club of frozen dinner collectors in Mesa, Arizona. The premise takes a little getting used to, and the movie has a slow start during which countless repulsive meals are featured.

Yet, and this is a big yet, it has some of the most hysterically funny satirical workplace scenes of any movie: Clown Cuts where “smilists” cut your hair, The William Jefferson Abstinence Center where we follow the calls of an “intercourse prevention counselor” (Keep her on the phone, so she’ll avoid the bone), an anti-abortion cafe called the No Choice where anti-abortion hecklers can have a cappucino in between protests at Planned Parenthood, and gigs with The Christers, a Christian punk band that seems only vaguely Christian.

Roughly 50% of readers will be deeply offended by this film, but some of us found it was funny.

 I’m not sure this post has anything to do with spirituality and the workplace. I’ll live with that.

According to their 2006 press release, Salary.com says they “consulted with Stay at Home and Working Moms and determined the top 10 jobs that make up a mom’s job description. If paid, Stay at Home Moms would earn $134,121 annually …. Working Moms would earn $85, 876 annually for the ‘mom portion’ of their work, in addition to their actual ‘work job’ salary.”

Any guesses at those top 10 jobs? Despite being the child of a former SAHM, a few of them never even crossed my mind. Compare your answers to theirs here.

The nice thing about the Mom Salary Wizard is that it’s not a generic figure tossed out, but a customizable one - this is important, because not every SAHM spends the same amount of time on the same tasks. It’s pitched as a potential “mother’s day gift” that children or partners can make for the moms in their lives, but I think it has more meaningful possibilities.

This came to me through a woman in my Real Wealth of Portland group, where we’re striving together to make aspects of our local “invisible economy” more visible. Author Riane Eisler notes that in 2004, a survey conducted by the Swiss government showed that if unpaid work done in the home were included as part of the Gross Domestic Product, it would represent 70% of the Swiss GDP.

So, what’s your mom (or dad) “worth?”

Just look for the red stapler when you want your fix of wacky workplace hijinks. I’m going to aim for every Friday.

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James Welch, the legal director of human rights group Liberty, also says that he is concerned that the register does not offer sufficient redress to the falsely accused.

“This scheme appears to bypass existing laws which protect employees by limiting the circumstances when information about possible criminal activity can be shared with potential employers.”

Aee. I’m all for sharing information, but as you can see in the comments, there seems to be a lot of room for abuse, and once on the list, what will you do for work?

Via Treehugger

You can also see Marc below, which is funny only that my husband stumbled across this video when looking for information on organic cover crops, and not organic flowers.

And why would you even care if the flowers you send are organic? About 70% of the cut flowers in the U.S. are imported, and often from countries that use pesticides and fumigants that are banned in North America. Furthermore, there are some serious labor issues with who cuts the flowers:

Meanwhile, two-thirds of Columbian and Ecuadorian workers suffer from problems associated with pesticide exposure, including nausea, conjunctivitis, neurological disease, reproductive problems, and birth defects. Plus, the International Labor Organization estimates that 20 percent of flower workers in Ecuador are children, who are even more vulnerable to hazards these chemicals pose.