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White House Staff Working Very Hard
Everyone who works for the White House has to wake up so early and they work so hard and they're all so tired! This story gets rewritten every four or eight years. [WP]
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By PareeneComment by The Real JR: Seriously, how can I get some of that Modafinil stuff? 5 Responses | Other threads
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work
Creepy Job Listing of the Day
Do you need a job? Are you a young woman with "both head and body shots"? Do you have great hands? We have a job for you! You're gonna love it! More » -
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So, Who Called Out Gay Today?
Today is A Day Without Gay! Did you remember? It's the day when ey'body is supposed to call out of work Gay to take a stand and make a point about how many valuable gays and lesbians there are in the workforce and why shouldn't they get married. Clearly, I have not called out gay (though I am at home, rather than experiencing our office's fabulous Day With Frey). But we're curious, is anyone out there calling out gay? If so, how are you spending it? (Well, reading internet blog sites I guess). We've set up a quick poll after the jump, so please tell us what you're doing. More »
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Comment by scroll_lock: I called in with a chronic case of Charles Nelson Reilly. My boss was suspicious, as just last month I... 9 Responses | Other threads
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layoff horror stories
Let's Use One of These Hot Blonde Girls to Replace Her
Remember last Friday? Laid-off Weinstein company employees sure do. They had been asked on Wednesday to clean up their desks because a "special guest" was coming. Turns out it was HR to tell them they were fired. Surprise! We have more tales from the front lines of the inanity known as "work" (send your own stories to tips@gawker.com.) In this edition, a tale of being newly hired only to be fired, and another reason to hate Gmail chat.
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By SheilaComment by Vivien Smith-Smythe-Smith: Surely there must be such a thing as workers' rights? Why didn't they get notice? Do they get a severance... 15 Responses | Other threads
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layoff horror stories
Laid Off for the Holidays
So the Dow closed, terribly, under 8,000 for the first time in five years, Time Inc's chopping more heads, and we're still looking for your layoff stories! (Send them to tips@gawker.com.) Oh, and? Remember the sad layoff story we you told you about earlier—it was a "post-9/11 husband-and-wife double-whammy"? There's more woe: More »
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By SheilaComment by zaropa: This is all well and good but on the CNN home page there is an in depth interview with the... 9 Responses | Other threads
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critical stalker
Ivanka Trump Ignores Basic Career Advice
We received a celeb-stalker sighting this morning: "Ivanka Trump—5th avenue and 57th street - Her hair was a mess. Didn't bother to dry it before leaving her place. Other than that, she looked great." Wet hair? We've got news for for 26-year-old Ivanka, whose job with her dad comes with a fancy title (Vice President of Real Estate Development and Acquisitions) and an assistant: According to Megan Hustad's newish book, How to Be Useful: A Beginner's Guide to Not Hating Work, she's just broken a cardinal rule for young twentysomethings in the workplace.
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By SheilaComment by Aaron Altman: I love wet hair. Love it. I admit it. 7 Responses | Other threads
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layoff horror stories
Get Well Soon, Without a Job
In honor of the Friday layoffs sweeping through the media today, we bring you even more funny-sad stories of being fired. (Esquire, Wenner, O at Home, this one goes out to you.) As always, send your own anecdotes to tips@gawker.com. Read on for sick-bed and weekend layoffs and a guy who's been laid off so many times, he's a "kiss of death" to any company. More »
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By SheilaComment by FracturedAcetabulum: I just wonder how long it'll be before they start laying off Commenters. 3 Responses | Other threads
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layoff horror stories
If I'm the One Fired, Why Are You Crying?
Election euphoria hasn't stopped waves of layoffs. "The number of out-of-work Americans continuing to draw unemployment benefits has surged to a 25-year high," reports the AP today. With that in mind, it's another round of layoff... horror stories. Today's tales go out in tribute to the very recently downsized employees at Hearst (Redbook, Good Housekeeping), Time Inc., and the Village Voice. Holla! (Wanna send us your anonymous anecdotes? Write tips@gawker.com.) Today, we hear tales of crying, drinking, and a well-placed "Fuck you."
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By SheilaComment by ADismalScience: Why do people still bring personal effects to work? Seems insane in this environment. My desk is spotless and empty... 22 Responses | Other threads
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memos
American Lawyer to Team: You Will Spend That Extra Hour Working
Just because you work 8 hours a day doesn't mean you can weasel away 60 whole minutes on your lunch break. At American Lawyer Media, you'll now be expected to be at your desk "NO LATER THAN" than 9 and "wrap it up" at 6. That leaves eight full, unmolested hours of work, not including lunch. The change doesn't look to be directly recession-related, although they laid off 42 people in April. That said, you can certainly expect to see more of this: More »
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By SheilaComment by LongIslandSettee: ALM pays their employees well, I understand. 9-6 is a reasonable schedule, commensurate with the times. For working journalists, very... 5 Responses | Other threads
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creative underclass
Are You the Worker Who Jammed the Pen in the Copy Machine?
...So you could be a hero when you miraculously fixed it? That behavior is more common that you think, says the Wall Street Journal—they've dubbed in "Munchausen at work." (Munchausen's syndrome and Munchausen-by-proxy is a creepy psychological disease in which one deliberately makes themselves or someone else sick to get attention.) So: do we all need recognition at work that badly? Apparently we do: More »
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By SheilaComment by Queen of the Passive Aggressives: I worked for a guy who was being backstabbed by a woman he hired. She told management he sucked and... more » | Other threads
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work
How To Manage 20-Somethings: The Real Shit
Totally irrelevant newsweekly-turned-listicle-magazine US News & World Report brings you a straight-talking list of ten tips for managing an office full of 20-somethings, according to old business dude G.L. Hoffman. His pointers include "Add value," "Let them use their media," "They want standards," and "Expect varied, non-chain-of-command type communications." Whatever that means. As an actual 20-something, I'm communicating up G.L. Hoffman's chain of command that this list is straight up crapola. You are old and your advice is dorky, Mr. Hoffman! And too long—we 20-somethings have no attention span (or respect for our elders), due to drug use. After the jump, five real tips for managing an office full of 20-somethings, should you ever find yourself in such an unlucky position: More »
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work
Nikki Cox Can No Longer Blink Her Lips
Pictured, Nikki Cox — actress and wife of CBS sitcom star Jay Mohr — who rose to prominence starring on such shows as Unhappily Ever After and NBC's Las Vegas, and is currently set to face off for some heated competition against Lisa Rinna, Priscilla Presley, and the rest of the cast of ABC's Lancing with the Stars. More » -
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Canned Career Columnist: "Take That Career Drive And Direct It Toward Mating!"
Last we heard from Penelope Trunk, she was a Yahoo! Finance career columnist in the midst of being unceremoniously sacked for the women's ghetto of the company's "Lifestyle" channels. We were deeply saddened, as we often agreed with her advice, like the time she said that if you want a better job, "Don't work hard! Work out!". Well, THANK GOD PRINT ISN'T DEAD. Because Penelope has resurfaced in the pages of the Boston Globe with some urgent advice for her old "Brazen Careerist" followers: freeze your eggs, get them tested for "premature aging" and: "If you are past your early twenties, and you're single and want to have children,you need to find a partner now. Take that career drive and direct it toward mating - your ovaries will not last longer than your career." Oh, Penelope. Spoken like the scorned woman you... are! But here's the thing. [Jezebel]
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By MoeComment by twistedspinster: I had to laugh when I saw the Globe hired Ms. Trunk - I thought her column on Yahoo! was... more » | Other threads
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forbes
We Are Drunk Right Now!
Paragons of good taste and sharp-eyed journalistic integrity, Forbes leaves behind the salient issue of why women should stay in the kitchen, and tackles the much more pressing issue of just how drunk is everybody who has a job? More »
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