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June 26, 2009 - July 2, 2009 | Issue 45•26

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King Of Pop Dead At 12

LOS ANGELES—Michael Jackson, a talented child performer known for his love of amusement park rides and his hobby of collecting exotic animals for his Neverland Ranch, died from sudden cardiac arrest Thursday at the age of 12. The prepubescent singer, who enjoyed playing dress-up and often referred to himself as "the King of Pop," was celebrated for his naïve...

Twitter Creator On Iran: 'I Never Intended For Twitter To Be Useful'

issue 4526 | 06.24.09 | News In Brief

SAN FRANCISCO—Creator Jack Dorsey was shocked and saddened this week after learning that his social networking device, Twitter, was... more»
Michael Jackson Dead

issue 4530 | 06.26.09 | American Voices

Singer Michael Jackson died yesterday at 50. What do you think? more»
Jobless Claims At 16-Year High

issue 4447 | 11.24.08 | American Voices

The number of new applicants for unemployment benefits jumped to 542,000, the highest since 1992. What do you think? more»
Graduating Seniors Face Bleak Job Market

issue 4520 | 05.13.09 | American Voices

With the country in the grips of a deep recession, college students will be graduating in a bad job market. What do you think? more»
Study: Smokers Bad For Workplace

issue 4334 | 08.23.07 | American Voices

A new study shows that smokers have a poorer-than-average work performance and call in sick more than non-smokers. What do you think? more»
Equal Opportunity Supporters Paid Less

issue 4439 | 09.24.08 | American Voices

A new study shows that men who adhere to a traditional mind-set about gender roles are paid more than men who are more egalitarian. What do... more»
Potential Employers Check Social Networking Sites

issue 4446 | 11.14.08 | American Voices

A recent survey found that one in five employers checked out job applicants on networking sites like Facebook before hiring them. What do... more»
Temp Puts Extensive Knowledge Of Alphabet To Good Use

issue 4526 | 06.27.09 | Radio
Company's Sexual-Harrassment Policy Targets One Employee

issue 4526 | 06.26.09 | Radio
American Robot's Job Outsourced To Overseas Robot

issue 4526 | 06.25.09 | Radio
Local Welder Suffering From Welder's Block

issue 4526 | 06.24.09 | Radio
Area Man Busts His Ass All Day, And For What?

issue 4526 | 06.23.09 | Radio
Ants Demand 23.9-Hour Workday

issue 4526 | 06.22.09 | Radio
Area 18-Year-Old Demands Right To Be Sexually Harassed In The Workplace

issue 4526 | 06.22.09 | Radio
Editorial Cartoon - June 22, 2009

issue 4526 | 06.22.09 | Editorial Cartoon
Unlock Your Employees' Profit Potential With An Improv-Comedy Workshop!

issue 4111 | 03.16.05 | Commentary

What's your company's most important asset? The computers? Sure, you need those. The telephones? The office chairs? You need those, too. But your... more»
They Should Do A Sitcom About Our Crazy Office

issue 3217 | 12.03.97 | Commentary

Have you noticed there are a lot of TV shows set in crazy offices nowadays? Well, I was watching one of them the other night—I think it was the one... more»
People With That Brain-Eating Virus Should Really Just Take A Sick Day

issue 4433 | 08.13.08 | Commentary

I know we live in a career-oriented society, but if you ask me, people's priorities in the workplace are all out of whack. Sure, everyone wants... more»
In A Few Years, We'll All Laugh About This Shitty New Health Insurance Plan

issue 4407 | 02.13.08 | Commentary

Fellow employees, I know that many of you feel frustrated, angry, and confused about this company's new insurance provider, BirchStreet.com... more»
Get Ready, Folks, 'Cause This Is The Greatest Late-To-Work Excuse You've Ever Heard

issue 3930 | 08.06.03 | Commentary

Okay, people. You are not going to believe why I'm late today. Sheila? Come on in here. Sorry about this, but you gotta get in here. Shondra?... more»
No Machine Can Do My Job As Resentfully As I Can

issue 4149 | 12.07.05 | Commentary

In today's increasingly mechanized world, where the bottom line so often takes precedence over human considerations, the working man never knows... more»
These Time-Management Issues Will Be Easily Resolved With A Series Of Streamlined Meetings

issue 4349 | 12.05.07 | Commentary

It's come to my attention that this office hasn't been managing time efficiently lately, so I'd like to use this open forum to address just a... more»
Your Horoscopes

issue 4526 | 06.26.09 | Horoscopes
Obama To Hold Job Performance Review With Every American Worker

issue 4526 | 06.24.09 | Video

The President says the purpose of the performance reviews is to have a little face time to make sure we're all on the same page going forward. more»
Timeline: Life Of A Star

issue 4526 | 07.04.09 | Slideshow
"Workplaces," "Paychecks," And "Jobs," A Nostalgic Look Back At A Vanishing Part Of The American Landscape

issue 4526 | 06.22.09 | Sunday Magazine
Anger At Hard Drive Taken Out On Monitor

issue 4526 | 06.28.09 | Newswire
You Blocking Area Loading Dock

issue 4526 | 06.28.09 | Newswire
Proud Copy Editor Buys 20 Copies of 'Newsweek' Featuring His Semicolon

issue 4526 | 06.27.09 | Newswire
Food Court Employees Take Lunch Break In Different Part Of Food Court

issue 4526 | 06.27.09 | Newswire
Acquisition Of 3-Hole Punch Triples Intern's Productivity

issue 4526 | 06.26.09 | Newswire
Farrah Fawcett Dies Alone On National Television

issue 4526 | 06.25.09 | Newswire
Home Office Thrown From Balcony

issue 4526 | 06.24.09 | Newswire
KFC Manager Robbed At Sporkpoint

issue 4526 | 06.24.09 | Newswire
Office Casual-Day Policy Hastily Rewritten To Exclude Unitards

issue 4526 | 06.23.09 | Newswire
Secretary Waxes Garfieldian

issue 4526 | 06.22.09 | Newswire
Fantasy Baseball Owner Rips Team In Media

issue 4425 | 06.19.08 | Sports News

BROOKLYN, NY—Mark Mendicus, 26-year-old Staples employee and principal owner of the fantasy baseball team Beat With Uggla Stick, blasted his... more»
Guy At Bar Complaining About His Job Turns Out To Be Eli Manning

issue 4338 | 09.20.07 | Sports NIB

NEW YORK—The staff and patrons of Manhattan watering hole P.J. Clarke's were only mildly surprised Monday night to learn that the... more»
Bruins Offer Coaching, Front-Office, Playing Position To Ray Bourque

issue 4213 | 03.30.06 | Sports NIB

BOSTON—Citing continued leadership problems at the executive and strategic levels, as well as the fact that they could use a little help on... more»
Cooper Manning Wins Super Bowl Of Energy Stocks Trading

issue 4406 | 02.07.08 | Sports NIB

NEW ORLEANS—Gas and oil stock trader Cooper Manning, older brother of Peyton and Eli Manning, turned in an MVP-level performance for his... more»
Years Of Networking, Glad-Handing Sabotaged By Coworker's Good Idea

issue 4506 | 02.06.09 | News In Brief

SEATTLE—After devoting nearly a decade of his life to brown-nosing and back-scratching every person who might have the authority to... more»
Coworker Even A Dick In His Expense Reports

issue 4225 | 06.21.06 | News In Brief

LIVONIA, MI—Charging his transportation, lodging, and entertainment costs to his company's expense account is just one more opportunity... more»
Gumption Rewarded With Even More Work

issue 4203 | 01.18.06 | News In Brief

BROOKLYN, MI—Homex Plastics floor manager Mike DiCenzo, who often puts in 60-hour weeks to make sure his employer's small factory runs smoothly,... more»
Résumé Font Offends Employer

issue 4235 | 08.25.06 | News In Brief

CHARLOTTE, NC—The decision to set his résumé in default-font Times–New Roman "deeply, personally, and irrevocably" offended a... more»
Copy Editor's Revenge Takes Form Of Unhyphenated Word

issue 4209 | 02.27.06 | News In Brief

BOSTON—Bruce Huntoon, a copy editor at Pilot magazine, intentionally did not correct the copy of columnist Justin Mann Monday. "I am... more»
Area Man Would Put That Meeting In His Top 5 All Time

issue 4315 | 04.12.07 | News In Brief

RICHMOND, VA—Trent Wilson, an executive brand strategist for the R&W Agency, characterized his company's staff-wide meeting Monday... more»
Coworker Has That Excuse That's Going Around

issue 4446 | 11.11.08 | News In Brief

ANN ARBOR, MI—Digital Copy Shoppe employee Don Newson, 38, called in to work on Wednesday complaining that he was certain he had come... more»
Guy 'Just Giving You A Hard Time' Truly Despises You

issue 4246 | 11.15.06 | News In Brief

RED BANK, NJ—Several coworkers have confirmed that colleague Eric Grasso's daily ribbing stems from a deep-seated hatred of you and... more»
Boss Alludes To 'Crunch Time'

issue 3820 | 05.29.02 | News In Brief

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA—Seeking to motivate his employees for a fast-approaching deadline, DCG Printing departmental manager Bryce Gillian referred to... more»
Terrible Idea Committed To Paper

issue 4423 | 06.06.08 | News In Brief

SECAUCUS, NJ—Sales supervisor Justin Henry stopped in the middle of a busy sidewalk Monday, obstructing the paths of 15 pedestrians as he... more»
Female Boss Walking Around Like She Owns The Place

issue 4317 | 04.25.07 | News In Brief

SACRAMENTO, CA—Lydia Bernoldini, the CEO of financial services firm Bernoldini & Co., consistently uses her personal carriage and... more»
Inept Coworker Increasingly Difficult To Fantasize About

issue 4515 | 04.08.09 | News In Brief

INDIANAPOLIS—Vesco Systems analyst Arthur Ingraham told reporters Monday that it has become extremely difficult for him to fantasize... more»
Family Comes First, Reports Man Trying To Get Out Of Work

issue 4434 | 08.20.08 | News In Brief

EDINA, MN—Frank Noller, married father of two and advertising copywriter for Harton & North, extolled the virtues of family and... more»
Hard Day's Work Fails To Yield Sense Of Job Well Done

issue 3644 | 12.06.00 | News In Brief

EVANSVILLE, IN– After a hard day's work Monday, Cahill Financial Group administrative assistant Janice Croyer mysteriously lacked a deep sense of... more»
New KFC Employee Takes 'Fry-Q' Test In Employee Manual

issue 3701 | 01.17.01 | News In Brief

MITCHELL, SD–After a three-hour training session at the Berner Road KFC Monday, food-prep trainee Liz Falk took the "Fry-Q" test in the employee... more»
Man In Suit Slams Fist On Desk

issue 4411 | 03.10.08 | News In Brief

NEW YORK—A man wearing a suit slammed the fleshy portion of his fist on a mahogany desk Monday in an attempt to further emphasize a terse and... more»
World's Worst Person Decides To Go Into Marketing

issue 4431 | 07.31.08 | News In Brief

NEW YORK—Twenty-three-year-old Louis Deenan, undeniably the most detestable, loathsome individual ever to walk the earth, willfully... more»
Friendly Note To Coworker Undergoes Eight Revisions

issue 3731 | 09.05.01 | News In Brief

WILMINGTON, DE—A brief note from United Family Insurance employee Martin Schatz to a coworker regarding storage-closet office supplies went through... more»
Study: Not Being An Asshole Boss May Boost Employee Morale

issue 4431 | 07.30.08 | News In Brief

[media:83607]WAUKEGAN, IL—In what is being called a breakthrough discovery in worker-administrator relations, a study released Monday in... more»
Fall Internship Pays Off With Coveted Winter Internship

issue 4402 | 01.10.08 | News In Brief

NEW YORK—New York University student Dave Werner announced Monday that he has successfully parlayed an unpaid fall internship at the... more»
Coworker Not Nearly As Fun Drunk As Originally Suspected

issue 4338 | 09.19.07 | News In Brief

WOBURN, MA—Accustomed to his fun, easygoing personality and solid status as the office cutup, Nick Bianchi's coworkers at Pierce... more»
Every Intern At Nonprofit Trying To Solve Refugee Crisis First

issue 4341 | 10.09.07 | News In Brief

WASHINGTON, DC—According to employees at the nonprofit organization Refugees International, each of the four new fall interns has been... more»
Lesser Piece Of Paper Used To Test Pen's Viability

issue 4503 | 01.16.09 | News In Brief

CHICAGO—A lesser piece of paper—one of no practical utility and little overall consequence—was used Monday to test out the... more»
No One Admits To Fart Joke

issue 4112 | 03.23.05 | News In Brief

HARRISBURG, PA—No one among the Harrisburg Family Insurance sales team will admit to having added a crude, hand-drawn depiction of flatulence to a... more»
Area Man Asked To Shoot Janice An E-mail

issue 4347 | 11.22.07 | News In Brief

DOVER, MD—According to fellow employees who observed the scene, office assistant Brian Rockwell has been asked to shoot Janice an... more»
CEO's Funeral A Networking Dream

issue 4337 | 09.10.07 | News In Brief

NEW YORK—The funeral for Bank of America CEO David Kessler, intended as a solemn remembrance of the 73-year-old's life, quickly... more»
Office Manager Very Pleased With New Work Refrigerator Policy

issue 4404 | 01.23.08 | News In Brief

NEW YORK—Meghan Maguire, 26, office manager for DataSolutions, told reporters Monday that she is very happy with her revamped work... more»
Workplace Shooting Planned On Company Time

issue 4222 | 05.31.06 | News In Brief

COLORADO SPRINGS, CO—Last week's mass shooting at Consolidated Services, in which employee Lynn Saint-Sebastian killed seven coworkers and... more»
Where Are We Looking For Work?

issue 4513 | 03.25.09 | Statshot
Everybody's Working For The Weekend

issue 3320 | 06.27.98 | Infographic

All across America, millions of people are toiling long hours just to make it to the respite of Saturday and Sunday. why are so many of us working fo... more»
Employee Keeps Up The Good Work

issue 4025 | 06.23.04 | News In Photos
What Are We Finishing Since We've Been Laid Off?

issue 4518 | 04.29.09 | Statshot
Office Internet Crackdown

issue 3115 | 04.23.97 | Infographic

Recreational internet use in the workplace is on the rise. Here's what American companies are doing to crack down on at-work web surfing. more»
CEO Sad Nobody Noticed New Tie

issue 4122 | 06.01.05 | News In Photos
Least Popular Work-Study Jobs

issue 4442 | 10.15.08 | Statshot
UAW Union Recruitment

issue 4225 | 06.21.06 | Infographic
Crumpled-Up Potato Chip Bag Spotted In Bathroom Trash Can

issue 4437 | 09.10.08 | News In Photos
What Caused Our Burnout?

issue 4423 | 06.04.08 | Statshot
Florida Legalizes Taking Guns To Work

issue 4416 | 04.16.08 | Infographic

Florida legislators passed a bill allowing citizens to bring their guns to work. Here are some of the other pro-gun laws enacted... more»
Motivational Poster Inspires 264 Layoffs

issue 4149 | 12.07.05 | News In Photos
Top-Paid Janitors

issue 3407 | 09.16.98 | Statshot
Workplace Productivity Falling

issue 4329 | 07.18.07 | Infographic

American workplace productivity is slumping, resulting in inflation fears. What is the cause of the productivity dip? more»
That Chinese Girl In Office: 'I Am Not Chinese'

issue 4248 | 11.28.06 | News In Photos
Top Reasons For Employee Absence

issue 4342 | 10.17.07 | Statshot
Drug Use At Work

issue 3108 | 03.05.97 | Infographic

According to recently released DEA statistics, on-the-job drug use is rising. Why are so many Americans getting high at work? more»
Foot-Long Hoagie Used As Ruler

issue 4407 | 02.12.08 | News In Photos
Worst Parts Of Our Jobs

issue 4143 | 10.26.05 | Statshot
Misinterpreted Foreign Business Gestures

issue 4235 | 08.30.06 | Infographic

When working at a foreign business, it's important to learn the customs and body language of your new associates. Here are the most commonly... more»
Unemployed Man Photoshops Self Into Former Company’s Staff Photo

issue 4448 | 11.26.08 | News In Photos

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