The 411: The Week in News
Here at the Corporate Sister, we like to catch up on our news on Sunday, and kinda host a mini pow-wow on what's been up around the media, the blogosphere, and pretty much all around the world...This is like our weekly watercooler media gossip session...This week,...
Lunch Break: Shoe Crush of the Day
Talking about shoes (please read our post on the soon-to-be-available numbing spray for stiletto-addicts), this ALDO shoe has me doing the Happy Shoe Dance! It's my shoe crush of the day, and it's running out of stock pretty fast! Gotta love the sophistication and...
Lunch Break: Stiletto Pain? Suffer No More…
Lunch break fashion alert!!! For all the corporate fashionistas who've had to suffer in silence their love for stilettos, suffer no more! According to Fashionista, there is a new spray out there, appropriately dubbed Heel No Pain that promises to literally soothe your...
Don’t Expect Much Corporate Diversity At Christmas!
'Tis the season to celebrate Christmas, and many of our other human values like joy, peace, gratitude and.... diversity? Nope... As busy a time as the holidays are, especially in the office, everyone is much too preoccupied by their own agendas, and fitting their own...
Holiday Time Off Etiquette: To Ask or Not to Ask?
V. sent me an email earlier asking if it should be expected that employees will take time off around the holidays. Well, really, it depends. While some corporate environments are more flexible when it comes to time off around the holidays, others are much stricter and...
Lunch Break: Time to Plug In? Check out the J. Crew Universal Charger.
I'm always scrambling to recharge my electronic devices, from my work Blackberry to my personal phone, to the Ipad, Ipod, and other I-something's...Either I forgot the charger, misplaced it, or let someone borrow (and not return) it....Sounds familiar? Well, that's...
The Corporate Sister’s letter to Santa
'Tis the season for letters to Santa, right? And although this endearing exercise is usually reserved for the honest thoughts and desires of innocent children, we thought we could also borrow some imaginary Santa's ear for a while...or we could just wish out loud......
Lunch Chat: No Christmas Gift for the Boss!
'Tis the season for gifting! Whether at work or around family and friends, we tend to want to get a lil' something something for everyone. However, when it comes to the corporate world, and more specifically to our supervisors and/or managers, we may need to slow our...
Lunch Break: Alice + Olivia Oh! So Cute Tutu Coffee Mug
We were just talking yesterday about the rampant Starbucks coffee addiction among corporate sisters (check out our lunch break post on the Verismo brewer)...just in time to swoon over this Alice + Olivia froufrou tutu(yes, froufrou!) 12 fl. oz. double-wall ceramic...
Is the Angry Black Woman Stereotype Keeping You From Corporate Success?
There are many stereotypes and cultural pre-conceived ideas that come with being a sister in the corporate world. Unfortunately, many not as positive as we would wish...One of these, the Angry Black Woman Syndrome as dubbed mostly in the media and popular culture, is...
