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• Oh, the horrors: Bad-boss stories shared

  Posted Aug 27 2008, 01:58 PM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Saving, Emergency, Karen Datko, Employment

  Have you ever had a bad boss? (We can hear the chorus of yeses from here.) "Free Money Finance" describes one of his former bosses as "Attila the Hun's long-lost relative." Another of his bosses was incapable of making a decision, and yet another penalized employees she didn't like.

  Needless to say, FMF's post "Share your bad boss story" drew plenty of comments from readers, who related the antics of bosses who were unethical, unappreciative, cheap, incompetent, downright mean or all of the above.   Read More...

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• Snowflaking your way to an emergency fund

  Posted May 15 2008, 04:57 PM by Karen Datko
  Filed under: Saving, Emergency, Karen Datko, Employment
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  "Lazy Man" noticed that some personal-finance gurus have a phrase they can call their own. David Bach has the latte factor. Dave Ramsey has the debt snowball. "Paidtwice" has snowflaking. Not to be outdone, Lazy Man at Lazy Man and Money has invented one -- "snowforting."

  "I realize that Lazy Man and Money is going to nowhere if I don't coin a term and/or champion a cause," he wrote. So, what is this snowforting, other than another PF blogger's fascination with winter?   Read More...

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