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Strenuous “Ah-Ha Moments” Taking Toll on Older Workers

A 63 year-old Troy, Michigan marketing manager was in...
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Systems Verifier Types Same Sentence 16 Million Times to Look Busy

William Harris, a systems verifier at Cleveland's Palmerton-Inge, was...
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Despite Ability to Name All US Presidents, 754 Interviews Net Her No Job Offers

Q. Over the past year I have been on 754...
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Tired of Traditional Jobs, More Turn to Getaway Car Driving

In 2012, there were 4,300 registered getaway car drivers...
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Up and Coming Ad Man Mistakenly Gets His Foot in the Wrong Door

Steve Wilson was on top of the world. Three years after first sending out his resume, then following up with over 100 query letters, he thought he’d finally gotten...
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As Employees Return to Work, Alabama Company Reassigns Their Comfort Zones

As its employees began returning to the workplace after over a year at home, the management at First Transitional Bank of Birmingham observed that most of them were staying...
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Company Mandates That Employees Spend 12 Minutes a Day at Water Cooler

When employees of Milwaukee's Turner-Marx failed to gather around the new water cooler, which had been purchased solely to facilitate conversation and encourage camaraderie, CEO Paul Lang launched a...
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With “Walking Out” Fired Staffers Now Common, Companies Seek More Humiliating Methods

When major auto companies began instituting massive layoffs across the country this month, those affected were invariably “walked out” – that is, provided with a box in which to...
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“Writing on the Wall” Strategy Transitions From Workplace to Home

To avoid paying expensive severance packages to terminated employees, HR departments have long utilized the strategy of writing on their office walls to get them to quit on their...
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Servers at Midtown Eatery Will Specify When Telling Diners to “Enjoy!”

Mishap, the Corktown bistro nouveau whose glazed prawns were recently featured in Swallow magazine, is requiring its waitstaff to tell customers what to enjoy instead of just saying “Enjoy!”...
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Researcher’s Career Takes Off When He Starts Asking, “What Can I Do You For?”

For 14 years, Level II Researcher Carl Mortons languished in anonymity at Cincinnati's Penrod Group, spending day after day analyzing Midwest auto mileage trends. He’d all but given up...
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Terminated Employees Will No Longer Be Shown the Door

For the first time since 1966, employees who are terminated by Cleveland’s Loxon Group will no longer be shown the door. Instead, they will be presented with two options: They...
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Ad Rep Gets Out of Comfort Zone, Gets Right Back In

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...
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Sting Operations Crack Down on Overly Friendly Workplace E-Mails

Sally Kaspers thought she was making a new friend. In reality, she'd been caught in an e-mail “banter sting” - a tactic used by over 10,000 American companies to...
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People Who “Grab” Coffee More Likely to Succeed Than People With Time to “Get” It

The word “grab” has become the second most popular word in business today, after “Exemplify.” It is employed by up and comers who wish to appear so busy they...
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As Performing Opportunities Decline, US Companies Welcome Mimes to the Workforce

With Covid meaning fewer crowds on street corners to perform for, mimes across the US have had to turn to other means of making a living – taking jobs...
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