Tag: workplace
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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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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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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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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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August 20, 2007 01:13 PM EDT --
Enjoy some light office humor, conversations are based on some real ones I've had lately
Early morning phone call on a deadline day
EA: Good morning, how can I help you?
Caller: Yeah I just submited . . .
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March 04, 2008 09:21 AM EST --
Over the years valued employees have thought that my business would fold if not for them. One particular employee thought this to be so true that I gave her a challenge. I filled a bowl . . .
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March 07, 2008 10:59 PM EST --
Working is something that many of us have to face. In doing so, I am sure many wish for a kinder and more compassionate working environment. However, the question is where does that start ? I am beginning . . .
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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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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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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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December 03, 2007 11:39 AM EST --
Seems like every job category has its share of codes known only to insiders. It’s one of the ways employers can gauge your experience in the field. Try waiting tables without knowing the difference . . .
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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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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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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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April 24, 2007 10:35 AM EDT --
So another study came out yesterday on pay gaps between men and women. This one, unlike many others, look at salaries in the first year and then ensuing decade after college – which to a given . . .
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December 10, 2007 02:22 PM EST --
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50 Years After Brown: Why Historically Black Colleges and Universities Remain Relevant
Beverly Daniel Tatum
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March 17, 2008 05:13 PM EDT --
As readers of this blog know, I try very hard to get a good amount of sleep every night. But of course, sometimes that doesn't happen. Sometimes I'm up all night with a sick child, others I stay . . .
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May 08, 2008 10:33 AM EDT --
Wonderboy hovered over the rectangular encasement and gingerly felt around the razor-sharp edge. A microfilm of sweat popped out on his forehead, his smile edgy, hands trembling, while his team, . . .
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