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TweetShare(Before I go any further, if any of you notice a problem with the blog’s operations, please get in touch with me right away, via the contact info) So, yes! As many of you (more than I would have anticipated! Thanks!) have noticed, this blog has been down for about 72 hours. Yes, it was [...]

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TweetShareAnother Monday morning. Did you hit up your local Starbucks this morning? Have you heard that it might not be around much longer? Starbucks, suffering in the stock market, recently announced it was closing 600 under-performing locations. Is your favorite locale on the list? Check here for the full list of closings. Why is Starbucks [...]

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TweetShareHere’s a bit of light-hearted advice for a busy Thursday. From ExperienceProject, 10 Signs It May be Time to Quit Your Job. My favorites: 4) You start looking forward to meetings, because it’s an hour long opportunity to shoot knowing looks to that one other really disgruntled employee and laugh on the inside. And… 3) [...]

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TweetShareThere’s been a lot of talk this year that the vacation season won’t be the same. You hear about families staying home rather than break the bank to pay for the gas necessary to drive to Wally World. Also, I’ve seen a couple of cable news stories about how vacations are increasingly culturally passe in [...]

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TweetShareIn the pantheon of at-work-timewasters, computer solitaire has to stand alone in the first rank. Sure, there’s also Minesweep and now online soduku and Facebook Scrabble, but surely more work hours have been wasted playing that stupid included solitaire program on your Windows PC than anything else. Except maybe online porn. But you have to [...]

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TweetShareA weekly wrap-up of the forwards, email, jokes, You Tube videos and water cooler chatter making its way around America’s offices this week. I think we all pretty much assumed that Bill O’Reilly would be nightmare boss to work for. Perhaps you’ve already seen the clip floating around of a 20-years younger O’Reilly freaking out [...]

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TweetShare “Yeah, I’m trying to lure these kids into my booth. But kids are very wary of being lured these days. Thank you, Dateline.” “All of these jobs suck. I would rather live jobless, on a beach somewhere, off the money from a large inheritance… than to have to work in any one of this [...]

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TweetShareAccording to the Divine Caroline, the simple excuse of “I’m not feeling well” is not getting as much traction as a valid missed-work excuse anymore. She thinks that the issue is that the notion of work and workplace is “becoming abstracted, allowing for the possibility of video-conferencing and telecommuting, there is often nothing wrong with [...]

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TweetShareAt 5.1%, the current unemployment rate is relatively low by historical standards. But the percentage of jobless Americans of prime working age — 13.1% for men 25 to 54 years old — is historically high. Most of them do not qualify as unemployed, but they are nonetheless out of work. This discrepancy exists because the [...]

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