One of the biggest problems you'll run into when you work for a lousy manager is that you end up spending so much mental and emotional energy trying to please your boss, you have no energy left for ...

I read your story "The Recruiter Said 'You're Lucky To Even Get An Interview" and I was shocked and depressed by it. The recruiter in the story is a representative of her county government. How could ...

Bob Byington's latest is a bizarro "Ikiru" that follows a dying man who decides to make his final months as problematic as possible. The literature professor has spent the bulk of his adult life ...

Every once in a while I receive a comment on a post that is frightening in its honesty. That happened last week, big time in my recent post "12 More Things to Avoid on a Sales Call". (Check out ...

Play is such a difficult phenomenon to define because there are so many different ways it is experienced. Some experiences are qualitatively better. Some are worse. Some games better, some toys better ...

What would you change about your life if you only had six months to live? That’s the question at the heart of Lousy Carter, a new indie dramedy starring David Krumholtz. For the titular sad-sack ...

Austin indie director Bob Byington returns with yet another movie about a dude who refuses to grow up, only this one learns he may be dying. Locarno’s programmers typically gravitate toward austere, ...