This is my second summer working in Washington, DC. I'm currently working in Northwest DC, which is the nicer part of town for those who don't know.
Source: seattlepi.nwsource.com
Taylor Aikin's new job is across the street from his current one, but he loves to tell people he'll be taking the long way getting there.
Source: news.yahoo.com
I'd write more here but I'm going out to lunch...
Source: Macworld
Surprise, surprise... the factory workers aren't treated very well!
The Mail visited some of these factories and spoke with staff there. It reports that Foxconn's Longhua plant houses 200,000 workers, remarking: "This iPod City has a population bigger than Newcastle's."
Source: wired.com
Wired guide to watching the World Cup at work.
Source: latimes.com
Personally I was born as a result of intimate relations between a river and a rock, so I never had parents. I had only gravel to eat while I worked as a miner in the hot core of the Earth all my childhood, and every evening I was brutally tortured to death.
Source: MSN
Five Dream Jobs for Men
There's a reason why firefighter and police officer are much more popular children's Halloween costumes than "middle management corporate drone."
This morning I committed the crime of being late for work. Unusually I had a genuine excuse and went in head held high that i was safe. I did not think that my real excuse was even less creative than some of the pathetic excuses I have offered up in the past.
Source: bytepress.com
People love books. People love games more than books. But what happens when you bond those two.
Source: creativityatwork.com
Source: paulsthinkingplace.blogspot.com
This is a commentary by a friend of mine named Paul about the importance of his father and the example he was and is to him. I appreciated how Paul honored his dad and thanked him for the things in life that are really important.
Source: MSNBC
If what you do is who you are, then you're nobody without doing a little work on vacation... at least I'm sure that's what employers would like to say.
Source: forbes.com
The average American works 25 hours a week; the average Frenchman 18; the average Italian a bit more than 16 and a half. Even the hardest-working Europeans--the British, who put in an average of 21 and half hours--are far more laid-back than their American cousins.
Source: forbes.com
Mintz conducted four-hour interviews with 25 execs, each worth between $5 million and $500 million. Some admitted that they had grown accustomed to the glittery perks of success: toys, praise, glory. But there were darker themes, too.
Source: editorandpublisher.com
"I want journalists who think first and foremost about how people are consuming media," Wilson responded. "It's not about necessarily learning software or reporting on different platforms.
Source: washtimes.com
Among those who will be cleared of past crimes under the Senate's proposed immigration-reform bill would be the businesses that have employed the estimated 10 million illegal aliens eligible for citizenship and that provided the very "magnet" that drew them here in the first pla …
Source: canada.com
Four mothers add up all their jobs. The result? If you had to pay her, you couldn't afford her.
Source: canada.com
-- Computers and the internet have revolutionized how we work. They have also brought new problems with them.
Managers and their companies will have to deal with the 76 million children of baby boomers, born between 1978 and 2000, who have started pouring into offices across the land.
The above quote may be shocking to some of you that are reading this article. It shocked me too.
Source: gizmosforgeeks.com
One English business is pushing their product as a way to stem the absenteeism that inevitably accompanies the World Cup every 4 years, by get this... allowing workers to see the games live on their PCs.
Source: boston.com
Reuters reports, "A full-time stay-at-home mother would earn $134,121 a year if paid for all her work, an amount similar to a top U.S. ad executive, a marketing director or a judge, according to a study released Wednesday."
Source: news.yahoo.com
I hear a lot of negative talk about unions (in general) from a lot of the people I hang out with. Unlike a lot of them, I grew up in a union house. I know first hand what the union represents.
Source: int.iol.co.za
-- Dave Givens drives about 595km to work and back every day and considers his seven-hour commute the best answer to balancing his work with his personal life.
GTD, or Getting Things Done, is a way of managing your time and commitment in an extremely effective way. Through GTD, people have thrown away there PDAs, sacked their Personal Assistants and rid themselves of pocket organisers.
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