How To Handle Your High-Maintenance Friends And Family Without Losing Your Mind 
How To Spot The Mike Daisey In Your Own Life 
Top 10 Relationship Hacks 
How To Promote Yourself (Without Being Sleazy) 
How To Get Out Of An Awkward Situation (Without Being An Arsehole) 
Ask LH: How Do I Get Out Of An Argument With An Irrational Person? Chances are you have a few co-workers who get on your nerves. While it’s easy to head straight to human resources when it’s someone you don’t like who’s slacking off, choosing how you approach the same situation with a friend is a lot more difficult. Here are a few ideas for how to approach a situation where you need to complain but don’t want to get someone in trouble.
How many times have you lent a friend some cash for lunch or a movie only to never see it again? One of you — if not both — forgot and now it feels a little awkward to broach the subject. Here’s how to get paid back easily and how you can prevent this problem in the future.
Working with someone you absolutely can’t stand can be emotionally draining and keep you from doing your job. If you’re in this unfortunate situation, the Harvard Business Review offers some survival tactics, including one counterintuitive one: Spend more time with that person.
Fear of rejection is a powerful motivator or, more accurately, anti-motivator. The sting of rejection is sharp (in fact, it actually causes something more like physical pain), probably because most of us consider rejection humiliating. If fear of rejection holds too powerful an influence over your choices, Rejection Therapy may be up your alley.
Dear Lifehacker, My last day of work is this week, and I’m concerned about my exit interview. Do I go in and tell them everything that’s really made me want to leave this place, or should I just keep my mouth shut and lie about how things have been and why I wanted to find another job? Should I lie if they ask me anything specific about my boss or coworkers?
If you find you have trouble keeping in touch with coworkers that you used to work with, or an old manager you’d love to use as a reference, Mingly is a new web app that makes it easy for you to stay in touch and up to date with your personal and professional network. It doesn’t replace your social networks, but it does help you use them more efficiently.
We all have to deal with difficult people from time to time, and while it’s easy to assume that the problem is with them, focusing on that won’t make it any easier to work with them. Instead, try focusing on the things about them that trigger you — ask yourself why you get so offended or upset when you’re around them. That focus will help you defuse an otherwise unpleasant situation.
The Valentine’s Day frenzy is over for another year. If you’re single, you may be tempted / pressured / anxious to get back into the dating scene as a result. Online dating is the obvious solution, but how can you avoid the rip-offs and the weirdos?
Here’s a great relationship hack that emphasises partnership and thoughtfulness (cornerstones of a lasting relationship) — and also helps get those pesky chores done. The Parent Hacks blog suggests busy couples work off the same to-do list.
Yes, that’s a ridiculous question; clearly, no-one should base their relationship choices on something as superficial as the operating system they use. But equally clearly, lots of people make bad choices, a fact underlined by the surprisingly central role Valentine’s Day seems to play in maintaining relationships. Desperate times might seem to call for desperate measures. Nonetheless, you should look beyond the boot sector disk when you’re making a bootie call.
