Category: Business

How honest should you be when you evaluate someone? I always thought that honesty was the best policy. Get things on the table and if they are fixable, fix them! Today, there were four people in my firm who had been there for six months. According to our employee manual,...

We had a 50th surprise birthday party for my sister. One of her friends at work, arranged for a hummer limo to pick a group of 10 women up on Saturday in Levittown and we drove to the North Fork of Long Island to go wine tasting. The tour was...

There are so many printers. We get solicitations from new printers all the time.  Printers come, printers go. And then we have our favorites that we like to use all the time because they are easy to work with, their quality is exceptional and they meet deadlines. Some of our...

You finally get your schedules straight and set a lunch date that took a lot of time to coordinate. When the day comes, you make sure to get to the lunch appointment on time. You hate being late. The hostess or host seats you. You sit down, look around, glance...

I’m a digital immigrant. When I started working at Ogilvy & Mather PR in 1983, we used IBM typewriters. I hated when my boss made edits because she wouldn’t stop making edits. Every time that she changed a word or a line, it would cost me hours of time correcting...

Do you have a professional head shot? If not, you need one! A friend of mine is being honored by a non-profit organization this summer and he sent me information about it. The photo on the material was so outdated, it looked like his high school year book photo! I...

I'm probably one of the few people out there who hate taking the Long Island Rail Road to the city. Whenever I take the train, I feel like I'm sitting there squeezed into a tight spot and can't move. I can't read my paper because it always seems to annoy...

At the end of the day, it's nice to come home and have a glass of wine, especially a wine like Chianti Classico. I'm sitting here, just finished eating chicken parm and now, I'm reading this book WordPress for Dummies, written by Lisa Sabin-Wilson who is a professional blogger. I've...

The more HJMT COMMUNICATIONS, LLC (www.hjmt.com) grows, the more intense each weeks seems to be. This week in particular was very busy because we were interviewing new potential staff, we were being interviewed by new prospective clients and I attended some cool events! Monday was a typical Monday.  We held...

I don’t want to seem like a complainer. But, it gets me mad that women haven’t achieved equality yet. I often wonder if women will ever get ahead. It seems to me that women and men graduate High School and college, get careers and yet, once married, the woman seems...