Tag: Protect

How to Protect Yourself When You Resign

"I resigned on a conference call, gave them six weeks' notice, and told them I'd be happy to do a knowledge transfer. My computer screen went black while I was still on the call. They kicked me to the curb that fast. Oh, and they told me to ship my computer back." My client was ...

How to Protect Yourself When You Resign

I resigned on a conference call, gave them six weeks' notice, and told them I'd be happy to do a knowledge transfer. My computer screen went black while I was still on the call. They kicked me to the curb that fast. Oh, and they told me to ship my computer back." My client was gutted...

3 Easy Ways to Protect Your 401(k) After Leaving

In 2005, the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act (BAPCPA) was passed, making filing for bankruptcy under Chapter 7 rather than Chapter 13 more difficult. BAPCPA also put in place protections for money held in qualified retirement plans. According to the Benefit Financial Servi...

Protect Your Energy

You basically are a potential of love and goodness in the world for the world is mostly negative. The universe is filled with good people, but also killers, murderers, child molesters, rapist, evil minded and jealous people, the list goes on and on. So you being here as a positive influence is...

To Protect Children, Schools have to Normalize Gun Violence

Whenever we have fire drills in school (and the Law says we must have them monthly) a student invariably asks me why we do it. It’s a reasonable question if you are ten years old. Ten year olds actually ask more reasonable questions than adults. Fire drills are loud, disruptive, half-chaotic. ...

A Sunshade to Protect the Earth’s Climate Would be Perforated by Micrometeoroids

Imagine yourself on the open deck of a ship which happened to sail just under this meteor’s fireball in 2014. Given the rainy weather at that location, you might have had an umbrella next to you as I did during our expedition. In that case, your instinct would be to shield your body by opening...

The online world makes it harder than ever to protect people from themselves

One of the most controversial issues for society is to what extent certain activities such as gambling and others should be banned, given their demonstrably harmful effects on people prone to addiction. Gambling is enormously difficult to regulate and subject to infinite variations from...

Why It’s Important to Respect and Protect Indigenous Artifacts

If you have visited your local public museum lately, or had the opportunity to visit major museums such as The American Museum of Natural History in New York or the Field Museum of Chicago, you may have noticed some Native American exhibits covered or showcases empty. This is because a federal la...