How to Keep A Positive Attitude When You Work With An Idiot

Sam Glenn, Author of A Kick in the Attitude, defines an idiot as someone who is clueless as to how their negative ways make your life and others difficult. When I ran across his article I just had to share it with you. We all work with this person. The one that makes you rethink your career, that makes you feel like an idiot too for playing into their dumb-ass drama.

Sam Glenn breaks down how to deal with an idiot that is so dumb they don't even know they are stupid. Here is his three step program on how to pull that dudes head out of your butt!

1. Keep Your Sense of Humor.
2. Keep Your Right Mind.
3. Feed Your Attitude.

Definitely go read the full article and tell me what you think! It's all common sense but sometimes we need someone else to throw sense into our face before we think of it!

What I am working on...

OK, I am not that stressed but at times I do feel like that guy!

Coming up at MrManUSA:

*Internet security for home, tips for keeping your kids safe.

*Forms and templates in Microsoft office made easy!

*Utopia?? Can It Be Achieved?

*How to Change Fuel Prices!

*How Safe are My Child's Toys?

*Outer Space......

*Tips and Tricks and Helpful Hints!

If you have any suggestions or comments feel free to email me or leave comments on articles. So far MrManUSA has been read in over 30 states and 5 countries worldwide. Thank you to all who keep coming back, and we promise to have some more interesting things here for you soon!

Does who you were in high school effect who you are today?

A study to find out what became of your classmates was recently conducted by CareerBuilder.com and the results may suprise you.

Between February and March of 2008 Harris Interactive on behalf of CareerBuilder.com surveyed over 6000 employees in the US. They broke these employees down into the main catagories of people you went to school with. These catagories consisted of student government, athlete, geek, honor society, cheerleader, drama club, teacher's pet and class clown. The study wanted to statistically establish what each of these groups would be more likely to do for a career later in life.

Results of the study indicate that Cheer Leaders were more likely to operate in the role of a vice president. The Teacher's Pet group had the most workers that ended up in the administrative assistant and clerical fields. Athletes and Geeks seemed to join forces in the professional and technical services type positions. Who makes the most money? As it turns out the students that participated in student government activities reported making more money than most others with 12 percent reporting annual incomes of more than $100,000. Also in the income catagory three others groups weighed in as receiving higher annual incomes than most others, coming in at number 2 is students who were a part of the honor society followed by Athletes, Geeks, and Class Clowns. A large percentage of Teachers Pets reported annual incomes of $35,000 or less proving it doesn't pay to be a suck-up!

Although Teacher's Pets generally make less they may have the last laugh as over 80 percent are reporting to be satisfied with their career. The most miserable, Geeks and Class Clowns who reported having dissatisfaction with their jobs.

The percentages in this survey in some aspects are somewhat loose but very real. It did puzzle me as to why the Bullies, and people who smelled bad were not included in the survey. I guess perhaps the Bullies are in jail and the people who smell bad maybe didn't ever get a high enough paying job to buy a computer..?

MrManUSA Top Five

The MrManUSA Top 5 is here! You can check out the Top 5 anytime on the right side of the screen. Click play and the videos will play in place. On the bottom of each video is an icon to make the video full screen. If you want to vote for a song to appear on the top 5 either send me an email or leave a comment on this post.

--This Weeks Top 5--

001. Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes
002. Lil Wayne feat. Static Major - Lollipop
003. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
004. Katy Perry - I kissed A Girl
005. Usher feat. Young Jeezy - Love In This Club

--Full list of songs that have appeared on the top five--

001. Madonna feat. Justin Timberlake - 4 Minutes
002. Lil Wayne feat. Static Major - Lollipop
003. Leona Lewis - Bleeding Love
004. Katy Perry - I kissed A Girl
005. Usher feat. Young Jeezy - Love In This Club

Stolen Laptops, What You Can Do

By Henry Burrece

Technology has changed immensely since the days of Maxwell Smart and so to have the tools at our disposal in dealing with criminals. Specifically when it comes to laptops there are a few options available to you in protecting your property and information. I recommend the following to family, friends, and co-workers.

1. Renters or owners insurance: Check into a policy that includes items that are with you while you work or travel. If you already have this type of insurance you may already be covered for this type of loss and not know it. For anyone that has been in the military check out USAA, their renters insurance is as low as $10 a month and includes this in their policy.

2. LoJack for Laptops: Is a stolen computer recovery service that claims a 75 percent recovery rate on stolen computers on which their software was installed. You can visit their site at www.LoJackForLaptops.com A quick look reveals protection for about $0.13 per day.

3. Don’t leave your car unsecured: Pretty obvious but had to throw that in there. If you must have your laptop with you and will be leaving it in your vehicle put it in the trunk, out of site out of mind.

4. Use an external drive or thumb drive: If you hold a lot of personal data or other people’s personal data on your laptop consider utilizing a large thumb drive or 2.5 inch USB portable drive to store all of your documents. In the event that your machine is stolen at least your data will not have been compromised.

More links will be posted on Friday...

Skype-Cast ~ The MrManUSA Show!!

So I wanted to do an article on pod casting, how-to blah blah blah. So I started looking at Winamp's Shoutcast, and Icecast as a free way to put yourself on the "air-web" or whatever... Basically it really stunk and had numerous flaws that made it more of a headache than anything. Shoutcast works but the amount of time you have to put in to tweaking it makes it slightly undesirable. And when all is said and done you can only "cast" to the amount of people your internet service will support ie: dial-up = No Way, Broadband = maybe 20 people. In the end... Not very exciting!

So I was updating my Skype software now owned by Ebay. While checking out the new features of Skype I found one called Skype Cast!!! Oh boy! So just messing around with it cause I couldn't sleep I started a "Skype Cast" and in a 15 minute time period I had over 200 people from all over the world tune in and check it out.

If you want to put on a show or just a huge free conference call here is the basics...

Go to www.Skype.com and download the latest version of the Skype software. Once you download the software just sign up for a free Skype account. When your done go to the tab the says Skypecast. Set up your Skypecast call on their site. Go to your volume control in Windows and open it up. Go to Options, then Properties, then Recording. In the recording control window put a check in the Stereo Mixer box. Now every sound that comes out of your computer will go over Skype.

If you just want to play music leave it like that. As people hit your room just shove'em all into Listen Only and they will not be able to say or play anything! One person during my first show IMed me asking if they could play a couple songs so I enabled them to be heard and BAM live from Germany there was some interesting Techno! I was playing MP3's, and Videos from YouTube nothin' big. Wait until I hook this all up to my little home studio!!

This is a very basic and very effective way to put yourself out there. A more advanced set up is possible to enable yourself to produce a more professional show but the set-up described here will get you on there and is a lot of fun! Try it out and see what happens!

At the time of this writing I have been broadcasting a second show to over 300. I will be doing another show tomorrow morning at around 6:15am EST. Get Skype and look for me in the Skypecast directory as MrManUSA.