Tag: workplace
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February 10, 2009 07:53 AM EST --
Tonight, I had to take a training module for work on Workplace Violence. I thought I was fairly aware of violence everywhere since I came from a very abusive family and was a battered wife. . . .
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December 12, 2006 01:49 PM EST --
I hate back to work dreams... but I had one once again last night. I was receptionist at the YMCA for 13 years, and while I loved my job, and all of the members I checked in every day became my friends, . . .
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July 13, 2008 05:42 PM EDT --
CNN recently published an article on how people dress for work.
Nose rings, eyebrow piercings, micro minis.... In some workplaces, the limits of good taste are pushed-- and pushed past.
Does . . .
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June 23, 2009 12:50 AM EDT --
Where I work there has been mostly the same people for over a year now. We had 2 people leave recently that went on to another program in our company. Just in the past couple of weeks we had . . .
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May 04, 2006 06:33 PM EDT --
"100 interesting things about me" is a hard thing to spit out, so I'm going to mix in the mundane. I mean, the *aren't* 100 interesting things about me.
Okay, looking around . . .
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May 22, 2007 10:01 AM EDT --
Baby boomers are looking to retire. But their kids – twentysomething GEN Y’s – are just starting out, hitting the American workplace in waves. Flaunting their iPods with attitude, . . .
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October 19, 2007 07:39 AM EDT --
Celebrates are guilty of this and it often gets them on the cover of magazines or in stories that we hear over our cereal - well I am sick to death of this - and will do everything possible to avoid . . .
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June 18, 2009 08:02 PM EDT --
I work for a Fortune 50 company and a new product is being released tomorrow and the office is going absolutely nuts! It's a high stress job to begin with, so now it is even worse. I have . . .
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November 10, 2009 01:49 PM EST --
Recently there has been a lot of hype about workplace romances especially since the David Letterman affair made the headlines. Are workplace romances a good thing?
Well we can look at . . .
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February 20, 2009 08:50 AM EST --
HAIFA, Israel (UPI) -- Women who encounter workplace sexual harassment tend to leave the organization, researchers in Israel said.
Research student Chana Levi and Professor Eran Vigoda-Gadot of the . . .
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November 08, 2006 07:07 PM EST --
Today, I had to go out to another office in the same town for some business. The place I went is a medium-sized business, probably with 25 employees. Well, I step in from the pooring rain and one of the . . .
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July 28, 2009 04:03 PM EDT --
Now that the ex-Governor of Alaska has given her farewell ramble, rumors say she may be doing a talk show . I can't help but wonder how that might go. For instance, I imagine a conversation . . .
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July 13, 2007 11:32 AM EDT --
I was sitting at my desk this morning diligently tending to the pressing matters of my day job (the jar of honey is still sitting on my desk and I believe is on the verge of becoming sentient), when I . . .
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August 08, 2007 01:22 PM EDT --
Vicki's article regarding Hillary Clinton got me thinking about this issue. I've always considered my self a non-feminist feminist. Don't give me special treatment because . . .
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April 28, 2008 10:50 AM EDT --
Most non-third-world countries in the world offer some form of guaranteed family leave, allowing employees to received part of their salaries when they take time off to take care of family matters or . . .
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April 28, 2008 11:08 AM EDT --
According to a poll quoted in the May 2008 Redbook magazine, which surveyed 177 countries, 169 of them gave women paid maternity leave, 145 provided paid sick days, 137 required businesses to give paid . . .
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May 31, 2008 06:42 AM EDT --
The Center for The Center for Disease Control has issued a medical alert about a highly contagious, potentially dangerous virus that is transmitted orally, by hand, and even electronically.
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January 17, 2009 08:12 AM EST --
I can't help it.
My eyes sweep around the conference room, taking in engineers, technicians, and secretaries who sit at their tables and sip coffee, pretending to pay attention to the speaker. . . .
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March 03, 2008 09:05 AM EST --
Last week I wrote an article concerning ipods, cell phones, personal use of computers and other devices while working. While I had a lot of good feed back, I felt it would not be a bad idea to . . .
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September 08, 2009 07:51 AM EDT --
The day after Labor Day is traditionally considered "America Gets Back to Work Day!" by office managers and other spoilsports. Efficiency experts say the best way to "streamline" your work . . .
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