What you won't guess, unless you already know, is that Darla is in the Guinness Book of World Records for having the highest average movie gross for a producer: $221 million per movie. She's got credit on 'A Bug's Life,' 'Monsters Inc.,' 'Toy Story 3,' and even has a character in 'Finding Nemo' named after her.

Take a look at photos and anecdotes we collected, showing the different styles of working people from all walks of life -- from marketing to management -- and how they keep their everyday items in check.

How does your drawer compare?

But with information overload flooding our lives at every turn, what can we do? It's not easy to change ADD-inspired ways, but time management expert Michele Vivona of LexisNexis has plenty of helpful answers.

Even if there isn't an official party, many office managers do encourage dress-up on Oct. 31, or the workday before it if it falls on a weekend. As tempting as it may be to dress as the new Sarah Palin (Christine O'Donnell in a witch costume) or as Mr. Dramatic Exit himself (Jet Blue flight attendant Steven Slater), it's best to avoid political statements while on the job. (You can don the witch's hat or grab the two cold beers and a slide after hours!)

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Devora Zack is a networking expert and author of 'Networking for People Who Hate Networking: A Field Guide For Introverts, The Overwhelmed, and The Underconnected'. Seems hard to imagine anyone in this day and age isn't already plugged in, but it's true that many people are still shunning the social network... and it could be costing them jobs and promotions.

Devora has some excellent advice for not only those few Luddites left, but also a word or two for those who need to hone their online skills and find focus.

I guess I could have looked it up -- Mercer Consulting's annual rankings put Singapore as the best city in Asia to work and live (Geneva is No. 1 in the world; but at No. 28, Singapore ranks above London, New York, Tokyo and Hong Kong). Mercer measures 39 factors, including political stability, crime, currency exchange, personal freedom and health and sanitation.

As the story of "Jenny" an administrative assistant whose sexist boss had plucked the final straw and forced her to quit her job in a most spectacular fashion by posting a series of photos with messages she'd written on a dry-erase board and uploading them to TheChive.com, turns out to have been a hoax fronted by L.A. actress Elyse Porterfield. Hoodwink or not, it's a great way to quit a hated job!

Even in today's shaky economy, quitting seems to be the latest trend: Heck, even Steve Carrell is quitting 'The Office'! How's that for irony?

All kidding aside, there are some really terrible ways to terminate your own employment. Even if you weren't even born yet, you know about President Richard Nixon's televised resignation; and if you've watched the news lately, you know all about Omar Thornton's preemptive strike (a bloody shooting spree at his place of employment, ending in his suicide).

Others who've recently left their jobs in spectacular ways inspire great debate. For instance, do you think Jet Blue's Steven Slater went out in style or in shame? Here's a list of our top 10 overly dramatic quits:

I'm definitely in that category, especially when it comes to dresses. I can justify my buys with the fact I work on camera a lot and therefore "need" a variety of clothing (but really... that's a pretty weak excuse. I just love clothes!) In order to salve my guilt (or is it simple to free more space in my closet?) I've decided to put my mod-mini where my mouth is and open a vintage frock shoppe on Etsy.

I don't have a job title. But if I did, I want it to sound very important and super-fancy. Like I went to graduate school. Not that there's anything wrong (I mean, differently logical) with traditional terms for occupations, but here are some snazzy new ones you might want to learn before your next job hunt (that is, employment-intel-gathering mission).

The job title tide began to turn sometime in the 1970s with the advent of the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), but became most prevalent in the '80s and '90s when waiters and waitresses became servers; garbage truck drivers were suddenly sanitation engineers; mailmen morphed into mail carriers; secretaries became administrative or executive assistants, and so on.

"We went over a lot of breeds of cats and wanted to get a villain look, something kind of scary and alien looking," said Mesa's animal trainer, Tracy Kelly. "We saw how outgoing she was and relaxed in a chaotic environment, and that was very important."

One might think that, as the executive director of the LAAA, Mays is surrounded in Monets, Manets, and Rodin scultures all day. However, the LAAA serves a broad cross section of artists of all mediums, career levels and socio-economic backgrounds, including those from low-income communities. So, it's not just the "big names."

Actress and model Jenette Goldstein, gifted with a curvy figure herself, saw a deficit in the lingerie department when it came to her needs, so she took upon herself to correct it by starting her own business -- Jenette Bras -- after she'd already enjoyed a successful career in the arts.

My objective was to find out about how sloppy handwriting might be perceived by a layperson, and what people generally think of those who don't dot all the i's and cross all the t's; but I learned a lot more.

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