On  March 5, Minna Rawlins, Finance Director of New York City’s Billings/Watts, emailed a staffer thanking him for his “fastidious” attention to detail. She was dismissed an hour later, but claimed she was never informed the word “fastidious” had become offensive. In a Zoom meeting a week later, Alternatives VP...

While being a “team player” and “consensus builder,” is essential, just as vital to success is having enemies - at least according to one of the USA’s most listened-to business conceptualizers. “A person who has no enemies,” says Morton Cornacki of the Breddow Insistute, “is a person who has too...

Monica Masterson, of Boulder, Colorado's Piltdown Group, broke through the glass ceiling on February 22 -  the first woman in the transactionals company’s 45-year history to do so.  During the process, however, she suffered some skull lacerations and a slight concussion, which rendered her unable to assume her new job...

Over the past five years, US workers have increased their use of smiley face emoji in emails and other correspondence by 2000 percent – from an average of six per day in 2018 to almost 250 today as of December 2024.   “Undoubtedly it’s becasuse we were in a pandemic...

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According to business behaviorists, which of these is not one of the five most common responses when being grilled by the boss due to the failure of a project or initiative? a) “I am asking tough questions” b) “I am getting to the bottom of it” c) “I am re-positioning my involvement” d)...

Over 2000 positions are available at eight new tech-centric companies scheduled to open this summer in Detroit’s TechTown.  These are the start-ups and what they’ll be doing: Jellistic: Makes shopping easier for end-consumers by providing access to websites featuring items that end-consumers are most likely to shop for Spontification: Develops strategies...

Two men who both claim they coined the expression “Phone tag, you’re it!” will be battling it out in the 417th District Court in Plymouth, Massachusetts to determine which of them will have exclusive rights to the saying. On one side is George McDevers, a personnel analyst with Boston-based Maritrex....

In just over a month when you “stick it to The Man,” you’ll actually be sticking it to a woman. Marilyn Middleton, a 32-year old Charleston, stockbroker, was appointed to be The Man last week following the unexpected retirement of Californian Harold Thompson Rattner, who’d served in the position since...

A promo for our friends at the Detroit Experience Factory. Cubicle F CEO Paul Lang tells you how to enter to win the grand prize by visiting lots of Detroit bars and restaurants between now and September 1 2014.

On January 15, CEO Joanna Philson was elected Employee of the Month by the 288 staffers at Miami liquidator Rackson/Pittlinger.  It was the 95th month in a row she received the award - which is determined by a show of hands conducted in each of the company’s 17 departments. “It’s...