Finance hears this plea all the time: Don’t be penny wise and pound foolish. But if it’s your job to look after the pennies, it can be easy to deny some small expense and have the decision thrown back in your face when it winds up costing your company a lot.

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Tags: claim, disability pay, equipment, injury, prevent, request, worker, workrer's comp

Should bosses and their direct reports be friends? Not friendly, as in exchanging daily pleasantries in the office, but “friends” in the social networking sense?

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Tags: boss, Facebook, friend, Linkedin, Myspace, request, sites, social networking, subordinate

So, your help desk staffer picks up the phone and the user on the line says, “My laptop’s been run over by a truck. What should I do?” Look both ways before you pick up the pieces?

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Tags: help desk, problems, request, response