Ask a Manager
Ask a Manager

Author: Alison Green

Publisher: Ballantine Books

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 306

ISBN-13: 0399181822

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From the creator of the popular website Ask a Manager and New York’s work-advice columnist comes a witty, practical guide to 200 difficult professional conversations—featuring all-new advice! There’s a reason Alison Green has been called “the Dear Abby of the work world.” Ten years as a workplace-advice columnist have taught her that people avoid awkward conversations in the office because they simply don’t know what to say. Thankfully, Green does—and in this incredibly helpful book, she tackles the tough discussions you may need to have during your career. You’ll learn what to say when • coworkers push their work on you—then take credit for it • you accidentally trash-talk someone in an email then hit “reply all” • you’re being micromanaged—or not being managed at all • you catch a colleague in a lie • your boss seems unhappy with your work • your cubemate’s loud speakerphone is making you homicidal • you got drunk at the holiday party Praise for Ask a Manager “A must-read for anyone who works . . . [Alison Green’s] advice boils down to the idea that you should be professional (even when others are not) and that communicating in a straightforward manner with candor and kindness will get you far, no matter where you work.”—Booklist (starred review) “The author’s friendly, warm, no-nonsense writing is a pleasure to read, and her advice can be widely applied to relationships in all areas of readers’ lives. Ideal for anyone new to the job market or new to management, or anyone hoping to improve their work experience.”—Library Journal (starred review) “I am a huge fan of Alison Green’s Ask a Manager column. This book is even better. It teaches us how to deal with many of the most vexing big and little problems in our workplaces—and to do so with grace, confidence, and a sense of humor.”—Robert Sutton, Stanford professor and author of The No Asshole Rule and The Asshole Survival Guide “Ask a Manager is the ultimate playbook for navigating the traditional workforce in a diplomatic but firm way.”—Erin Lowry, author of Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping By and Get Your Financial Life Together

Getting by in Hard Times
Getting by in Hard Times

Author: David Livingstone

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13: 9780802007834

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Describes the experiences of daily life for predominantly white, working class women and men during the period of "economic restructuring" begun in the 1980s.

Cowboy Devil's Embrace
Cowboy Devil's Embrace

Author: C.D. Gorri

Publisher: C.D. Gorri

Published: 2024-09-24

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13:

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Welcome to the Motley Crewd Ranch! Once upon a time…Nah, scratch that. These aren’t those kinds of stories. Yeah, there are supernatural creatures, magic, and love inside these tales. But there’s also crude behavior, foul language, and steamy sex scenes, involving boorish alpha males with bad attitudes and over the top possessive behavior. Still wanna stick around? Excellent! Now, we have all heard there are more things in this universe than you or I or anyone truly knows. Well, this group of supernatural misfits is testing the limits of what they know in order to chase the one thing they never thought they’d have a shot at controlling…their destinies. But only the Fates can determine true love, and in Barren County, New Jersey, these Urban Cowboy Shifters are going to find out the hard way. Sometimes it’s not about the family you were born into. Sometimes it’s about the family you choose. Or in this case, the crew. Cowboy Devil's Embrace He’s been looking for someone to hold on to. She’s been waiting for the right guy. This Jersey Devil has a jaded past. Too many loveless affairs, sleazy backroom deals, and an overall loss of his love for life has led Maximillian Leeds to one conclusion. He needs a change. What could be more different for a city slicker than buying a ranch in Northern New Jersey? There’s just one problem. He has no idea how to run a farm/ranch/thing. What’s he even supposed to do on a horse? An announcement in a supernatural newsletter gets him a misfit group of lone Shifters that all have one thing in common. They each need an anchor to settle their beasts. Good thing the Motley Crewd Ranch is fully insured. Thinking he's made a big mistake, Max changes his tune when he meets his fated mate at the Devil’s Food Bakery. The pouty-lipped maker of decadent delights makes his mouth water. Can this Jersey Devil convince the curvy baker to be his? KEYWORDS: curvy FMC, morally gray MMC, Shifters, Wolf Shifters, Devil romance, Demon romance, plus size heroine, fated mates, happy ever after, claiming bite, found family, slow burn This is a series of interconnected paranormal romance standalones with steamy scenes, foul language, crude behavior, plus size heroines, mating rituals, claiming bites, possessive book boyfriends, HEA endings, and more.

What Really Happens in Prison: One Officer's Journey
What Really Happens in Prison: One Officer's Journey

Author: Tommy Giovani

Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1633380386

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Welcome to the Washington State Department of Corrections and one officer's journey to navigate his way through the system while trying to balance his personal life. There are many different colorful people from upper administrators all the way down to offenders. In the following pages you will find danger, humor, and at times stupidity. This book will paint a picture of what it is like to walk the tiers filled with some of the worst human beings that the state of Washington has to offer. It wi

Cloud Native Infrastructure
Cloud Native Infrastructure

Author: Justin Garrison

Publisher: "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Published: 2017-10-25

Total Pages: 159

ISBN-13: 1491984279

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Cloud native infrastructure is more than servers, network, and storage in the cloud—it is as much about operational hygiene as it is about elasticity and scalability. In this book, you’ll learn practices, patterns, and requirements for creating infrastructure that meets your needs, capable of managing the full life cycle of cloud native applications. Justin Garrison and Kris Nova reveal hard-earned lessons on architecting infrastructure from companies such as Google, Amazon, and Netflix. They draw inspiration from projects adopted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), and provide examples of patterns seen in existing tools such as Kubernetes. With this book, you will: Understand why cloud native infrastructure is necessary to effectively run cloud native applications Use guidelines to decide when—and if—your business should adopt cloud native practices Learn patterns for deploying and managing infrastructure and applications Design tests to prove that your infrastructure works as intended, even in a variety of edge cases Learn how to secure infrastructure with policy as code

They're ALL Sucker Bets
They're ALL Sucker Bets

Author: Jack Halsey

Publisher: Kavan Olesh

Published: 2017-05-31

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13:

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This book offers an enjoyable account of one man’s mission to learn how to make his money work for him. With humorous anecdotes of his hard-learned lessons and experiences in his early attempts to navigate the chaotic waters of investing, the author offers easy to understand explanations of basic investing options making it easily accessible to those new to investing. If anyone is looking to get into investing I recommend they read this book, and take to heart the lessons that are being shared.

Three Strikes
Three Strikes

Author: Ross Klavan

Publisher: Down & Out Books

Published: 2018-09-10

Total Pages: 172

ISBN-13:

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“Crime fiction aficionados with a taste for the offbeat will be rewarded.” —Publishers Weekly I Take Care of Myself in Dreamland by Ross Klavan Bartok is left with scars from the Army but something else, as well-the memory of a strange, mystical experience that he calls “Red River.” Back home and out of luck, he wanders through 1970’s New York hoping to recapture this strange state. But others see Bartok as an easy mark for some very dirty business and their plan is to use him for murder. Jammed by Tim O’Mara Aggie is back in business. He’s no longer smoking bootleg cigarettes as he did in “Smoked,” now he’s smuggling another usually legal-and quite valuable-products: maple syrup. Unfortunately, on the way from the Midwest to New York City, he’s picked up an unwanted traveling companion, the fifteen-year-old daughter of his latest boss. It seems she wants to get to NYC to meet up with her on-line boyfriend, who turns out to be much more than she expected. All Aggie wants to do is drop off the syrup, pick up a paycheck, and get on home. Before he does that, he’s gotta play hero. Again. The Maybrick Affair by Charles Salzberg As World War II rages in Europe, it’s a couple weeks before Pearl Harbor and rookie reporter, Jake Harper, who works for a small Connecticut newspaper, is assigned a routine human interest story. A reclusive, elderly woman, has quietly passed away in her small cottage upstate. As Jake investigates the old woman’s life and death he finds that years earlier she was tried and convicted of murdering her husband in a well-publicized, lurid trial in London, England. And, after digging further, he, unearths evidence that she might have had a connection to an even more famous British serial killer and that the ramifications of this story might affect America’s entry into the War.