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As they say, fame is fleeting. Just ask these former celebrities who are back on the job in the real, not reel, working world, reports Yahoo Celebrity. Former “Hairspray” star and “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Nikki Blonsky has earned a cosmetology license and is working at a salon in Long Island as a make-up […]
You have probably suspected it—but now a FuzeBox study has confirmed it—a whopping 92 percent of employees are distracted and not always paying attention at meetings because they are “multitasking.” According to a press release, 52 percent of survey respondents spend 1 to 3 hours in meetings weekly, and 34 percent spend between 4 and […]
SplashData has announced its annual list of the 25 most common passwords found on the Internet. For the first time since SplashData began compiling its annual list, "password" has lost its position as the most common (aka the “Worst Password”), and two-time runner-up "123456" took the dubious honor. "Password" fell to #2. Here are the […]
A Texas man who reported he sustained a job-related injury while driving a truck and received income benefits from an insurance company was found driving a truck while collecting. Not a huge surprise. What was surprising was that he was also found to be climbing trees as part of a side business! Texas Mutual Insurance […]
A most unusual workplace raffle sends the winners, not to a posh resort, but to a remote part of the Amazon—and not for a vacation, but to work hard! Crius Energy, based in Stamford, Connecticut, told the Hartford Courant that it has been committed to the Amazon Preservation Project, started by Crius’s Viridian Energy division, […]
Robots and androids will replace the majority of human jobs in the next few decades, according to the new book, Jobocalypse: The End of Human Jobs and How Robots Will Replace Them, by British author and futurologist Ben Way. Where will that leave “human” resources? Even jobs that were considered “safe” from outsourcing may be […]
When a St. Louis city worker was fired for complaining about the advances of her supervisor, she filed suit for sexual harassment and wrongful termination. But what makes this case “strange but true” is the evidence she used to show that the boss considered their relationship more than just professional. While the boss claims his […]
This time a waiter didn’t get a tip but was done in by a tip, resulting in his arrest in the workplace. This time a waiter didn’t get a tip but was done in by a tip, resulting in his arrest in the workplace. He’s a waiter, so federal marshals knew exactly when to find […]
A man in Virginia has been arrested for stealing laptops. According to local reports, there were more than 1,200 laptops found in his home. The man, a public schools employee, sold the computers online. He has been arrested for embezzlement. Not the first…or the last. Employee theft is nothing new. It can range from taking […]
Last week we wrote about a blunt finding its way into a customer’s burger. This week, we’re bringing you another restaurant story about drugs changing hands, this time in the other direction, customer to waitress. According to an article in The Oregonian, a couple was dining at a steakhouse restaurant and was closing the tab. […]