It’s impossible to succeed in the workplace if you’re perceived as a “pushover” – that is, a person who is taken advantage of and, in some instances, actually pushed over.  In fact, it is the second worst thing a person can be perceived as, following being perceived as a...

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When employee stress levels increased to 142 facto points* in December - up from 103 last March - Milwaukee sampling conglomerate Chanting-Pierce was quick to take action.   “We have mandated that all employees must achieve a level of 85 facto-points by March 1,” says Human Resources VP Veronica Hallinger....

Upon ordering employees working from home to return to the office, US businesses are discovering that once they come back, many don’t like it and go back home. This has forced some to install invisible fences to keep them in.    The fences – actually wires buried underground – emit...

Astrid Entertainment – creators of Blind Beekeeper - announced this week that Stamp! will debut on the PLUSSS cable network at 10 PM on August 17. The premise: Julie, a 27 year-old spokesmodel, has suddenly hit it big with an antacid ad campaign. Because of her newfound wealth, she will...

Insurance giants GEICO, AFLAC and Progressive aggressively defended their animal-advertising practices yesterday amid reports that the GEICO Gecko, the AFLAC Duck, the Progressive Pig and other high profile insurance industry spokes-animals were being held in appalling conditions at a Biloxi Mississippi compound shared by the companies. In a joint statement,...

With so many of their employees working from home, US companies report that their need for Cones of Silence has declined by over 85 percent since 2019. The clear plastic double bubbles that lower from the ceiling to muffle confidential conversations between two people were first made popular by the...

It took Sandra Standish, a Chicago advertising sales rep, four years to work up the nerve to get outside of her comfort zone. Once outside, however, it took her just 12 minutes to get back in. “I didn’t like it out there,” she says. “I couldn’t keep up with the conversation,...

A popular employee at Milwaukee’s Lamernoy Genistics is taking its CEO to court over the right to keep using a friendly greeting he says he invented and has been using for over 20 years.   Says analyst Max Torrey:  “I go up to people, put one hand on their left...

As brick and mortar retail sales continue to fall – due mainly to the increase in online ordering that began long before the pandemic – opportunities for loiterers have been shrinking as well. “It used to be you could count on a 40, even a 50 hour week,” says   ...

Chicago’s Feldman Group reports that, on January 3, an outside caller somehow managed to get through to an actual employee.  The incident occurred at 10:47 AM, the first time it had happened in over 23 years.  Here is a leaked transcript of the conversation between the caller and the employee. (The...

To ensure a healthy work/life balance, all employees are required to complete a 14-page report each week, documenting the points they’ve earned for performing “life activities.”