Consumers with complaints about firms offering person-to-person loans can now register their displeasure with the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the federal regulator announced this week. The watchdog also published a consumer bulletin with general information about the “P2P” lending industry, also known as “marketplace lending.” “When consumers shop for a loan [Keep reading]
Raise your hand if you’ve ever heard something like this from your boss: “Sorry, we can’t give you a raise. But be patient. We’ll take care of you.” Now, put your hands down if you were taken care of. I thought so. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella nearly broke the Internet yesterday [Keep reading]
Harassment is rampant in the restaurant industry, according to a report published today by a pro-worker non-profit group. Anyone who’s ever worked in the service industry knows this: If you want cooks to take care of your orders, you have kiss up to them. If you want better tables, you [Keep reading]
Happy birthday to my website! To celebrate, I am offering a signed copy of my book, The Plateau Effect, at no additional cost to anyone who signs up for my 30-Day Getting Unstuck email challenge, which costs $10. So, $10 gets you the email and a signed hardcover book at [Keep reading]
Can you change your luck in life just by thinking differently? Let me break free from this stream of bad news to talk for a big about The Plateau Effect again. If your summer didn’t bring what you’d hoped, and if the arrival of back-to-school sales is making you feel [Keep reading]
I’m writing about the scourge of long-term unemployment today and the stubbornly low employment rate (don’t be fooled by the fake un-employment rate) — I will spring some really interesting research from Credit.com on you soon — but in my reading I came across a really helpful resume writing article. [Keep reading]
OK, free market defenders, time to stand up and be counted. Do you believe in competition, or not? Aptly named “non-compete clauses” are creeping into standard employment agreements across a host of low-wage industries, according to a story in The New York Times. One such clause prevented a 19-year-old college [Keep reading]
One-week special: Sign up and get free email Getting Unstuck help from Bob! Click to subscribe or read on Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson have helped the Miami Heat win consecutive NBA titles. Their book, The Plateau Effect/Getting Unstuck, has been featured on the cover of O! Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, and [Keep reading]
SPECIAL OFFER! This week only. Sign up for the Getting Unstuck in Your Career 30-Day Challenge this week and get free e-mail career help from Bob. Click here to sign up. It’s fast and easy. And so we come to the end of the Getting Unstuck staircase. It’s not an [Keep reading]
There is still something rotten in Denmark. And in our economy. Yes, the housing market has stabilized and the “headline” unemployment number seems under control. (We’ll get back to that in a moment.) But signs of a fragile economy are everywhere, if you know where to look. A big one [Keep reading]
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