The Plop & Stayer will unexpectedly plop down in the chair in front of your desk - and then just stay. If it's being done correctly, he or she will time the incident so it occurs at the least convenient time - like when you're practicing for a spontaneous...

Some have argued that this popular party game wasn’t meant to be made into a full-scale musical.We'll soon find out if they're right as Twister  - book by Georgia St. Marie-Vance, music and lyrics by Carlotta Alvierro - enters second week of tryouts at the Mulberry Theatre in Pittsburgh  The...

To avoid paying expensive severance packages to terminated employees, HR departments have long utilized the strategy of writing on their office or cubicle walls to get them to resign on their own - thus avoiding expensive severance packages and potential lawsuits.   When they quit, of course, the employees tell people...

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,...

Not too many years ago, a civil engineer who dressed like a mechanical engineer would have been ostracized at the office – perhaps even asked to seek opportunities elsewhere.  Just ask Sandra McDermott, of Kansas City. Trained in civil engineering at the University of Wimshaw, she started to get “feelings”...

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After 40 years and thousands of businesses hellbent on getting rid of him, the Middleman has finally thrown in the towel. On May 1, he enrolled in Midwest Barber College of Ashtabula, Ohio. “I needed something more dependable,” he says. With so many companies eliminating him, he says he's earning...

The number of US businesspeople whose hands are tied when it comes to addressing workplace issues, policy changes, and other actionable areas has increased by 14,000 percent since 2010. "Today there are over 15 million hands tied in the American workplace," says David McClennon, a researcher with the Pratmore Initiative. ...

After trying her hand at start-ups ranging from RenCen shaped salt shakers to telegrams delivered by singing artisans, Monica Portman plans to open “Detroit Coaster Company” by the end of 2015. A self-described “Detro-preneur” since 2012, and a certified change agent since 2011, she got the idea while attending an...

In order to conduct a romantic affair in the office, couples must apply in advance and attend a mandatory training seminar conducted by Employee Maximization.

Not even two years after the adultery website Ashley Madison was hacked and its client’s names made public, the same fate has befallen the Dolly Madison company, makers of various dessert products. Dessert-eating habits of over 17 million users are about to be made public. People who’ve been lying to...

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...