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Today's Fresh Blogs...| The Best Salesman in the State |
| Published: July 13, 2007, 11:00 am |
| Tags: Work |
| A young guy from California moves to Colorado and goes to a big department store looking for a job. The manager says, "Do you have any sales experience?" The kid says, "Yeah, I was named 'Best Salesman in the State' back home in California." Well, the boss liked the idea of that, so he gave him the job. "You start tomorrow. I'll come down after |
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| Terrible New Virus |
| Published: June 25, 2007, 11:00 am |
| Tags: Work |
| Please pass around this new warning! This is a serious threat! - - - There is a dangerous virus being passed around electronically, orally, and by hand: |
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| Muslim meatpackers fired for praying |
| Published: July 24, 2007, 1:20 pm |
| Tags: Islam, Work, The Law, America |
| Mohamed, 28, is among the workers who say they were fired or forced to quit.''Some of them took the [prayer] mat from me; they started shouting, they started telling me to stop it, and one of them grabbed me by the collar of my shirt,'' Mohamed said.A lawsuit has not been filed. Civil-rights laws protect the religious observance of employees, |
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| Bush's EEOC nominee "undermined" employment rights |
| Published: July 25, 2007, 4:15 pm |
| Tags: Work |
| with: Marian Thompson, who worked in the section for 18 years as a statistician, said that after becoming section chief in 2002, Palmer fired a veteran attorney with whom he had had a romantic relationship and that the woman filed a complaint against him. In a phone interview, Thompson expressed surprise that Palmer did not let someone else |
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| Lisa Belkin's Life's Work Is Stating The Obvs: 'Times' Workplace Columnist Limns Difference Between Old And Young |
| Published: July 26, 2007, 4:45 pm |
| Tags: Bras, Lisa Belkin, Lisa Belkin S Life S Work Is Stating The Obvs |
| Add to this the favorite fact of human resource managers everywhere: this is the first time in history that four generations -- those who lived through World War II, Baby Boomers, Generation X and... |
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| I don't have anything cogent to say about Superme ... |
| Published: July 1, 2007, 5:54 pm |
| Tags: Rant, Work, Politics |
| anything for me. I already work at segregated schools so that's that. Maybe I'll just tell some more stories about the realities of urban schools that wouldn't fly in a white school. Not because poor nonwhite parents don't care about their kids, but they're working too hard cleaning white parents' pools/gardens/kitchens/baby's butts to have a |
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| I continue to check the bulletins on MySpace somet... |
| Published: June 29, 2007, 12:34 pm |
| Tags: Work |
| I continue to check the bulletins on MySpace sometimes if only for gems like this from one of my (former, sniff sniff) 10th graders: well if yu knew wat happen todaylisa and i went to the deans and the police stationbecuz we were sexually harrassed by a dumbass guy!!!!so now were going to press charges on that mutherf*****!!!!hahahaThat's my |
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| In order to process my teaching credential -- my P... |
| Published: June 28, 2007, 7:24 pm |
| Tags: Work |
| In order to process my teaching credential -- my PRELIMINARY teaching credential after all this shit, and now I have another two years of hassle to get a "clear" credential, and that's a whole 'nother story -- I just had to check a box agreeing with this:I solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support the Constitution of the United States of |
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| "Walk along to another day, work a little harder, ... |
| Published: June 8, 2007, 8:31 pm |
| Tags: Work |
| along to another day, work a little harder, work another way" ***I finished my credential classes on Wednesday night. I went to a job fair on Thursday. I signed a contract Friday.Yeah, I work fast. But I also got one of my top choice schools, off the list I made when I came to realize the high school where I worked until March didn't want my |
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| To recap: almost all my teaching experience has be... |
| Published: May 30, 2007, 10:49 am |
| Tags: Work, School |
| To recap: almost all my teaching experience has been in the inner city. Since March, I've been doing my student teaching in a much more upscale area, just to see what it's like. People ask me if I'm going to apply for a job in said upscale area and the answer is no. I'll let the Onion give one of my reasons:High School Student Whines His Way To |
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| What do ya think? Should I go work at Rosie The Ri... |
| Published: May 16, 2007, 5:02 pm |
| Tags: Work |
| What do ya think? Should I go work at Rosie The Riveter High School? Just because the name is awesome?Actually, it's an all-female vocational school, which would be quite interesting. But Long Beach? Far. So nah. I also offer, without editorial comment: Johnnie Cochran Middle School and an old favorite, DW Griffith Middle School. |
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| More uncovered notes and quotes from spring cleani... |
| Published: April 29, 2007, 6:01 pm |
| Tags: Work |
| More uncovered notes and quotes from spring cleaning:"Whoa! You can put Chinese words on the fucking Internet?!"- a student in the school library in East Los"What do the girls look like in Minnesota? Are they fine? Are they all white with color eyes?"- 9th grade student, to his Minnesota pen pal, for an English class assignment |
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| A random memory: Apparently the thrift store acro... |
| Published: April 25, 2007, 2:49 pm |
| Tags: Work |
| A random memory:Apparently the thrift store across from Children's Hospital in LA will become parking lots. The links says it's been closed for two years, which would have made me one of its last customers. I was there about two years ago after visiting a student in the hospital, delivering his get well cards from the class but too awkward to do |
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| School's Out - It's Maternity Leave Time |
| Published: April 19, 2007, 2:27 pm |
| Tags: Giggles, Pregnancy, Work |
| I know I haven't been at work for 2 weeks) but I can now officially say that work is a thing of the past...at least for a minimum of 6-9 months with the option of being off for year. Woo hoo! I have my team lunch tomorrow as we couldn't do it today and I know I'll be sad to wave goodbye to all of the prima donna's and drama queens! It will be |
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| Fix Your Focus |
| Published: July 23, 2007, 9:06 am |
| Tags: Work |
| How to cut distractions and stay focused on the job. |
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