Author: Dr Wingnut
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Calling in sick. It’s not just for being sick any more
You’ve heard of the dog who ate homework, but what about the cat who unplugged the alarm clock? These days, people are getting very creative when they don’t want to go to work.In CareerBuilder’s survey “Out of the Office,” more than one-third of U.S. workers say they played hooky from work over the last twelve…
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All Work, all the time
The nature of work itself has changed. Many of us, for better and worse, work in the office, at home, in hotels, at Starbucks.Groove Networks CEO Ray Ozzie, during a conference call last week (7 March 2005) to discuss his collaboration-software company’s acquisition by Microsoft
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Anger
The most heated bit of letter-writing can be a wonderful safety valve, providing the wastebasket is somewhere nearby.Bill Wilson
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Importance
What I do today is important because I am exchanging a day of my life for it.Hugh Mulligan
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Family Tradition
All of his life Ole had heard stories of an amazing family tradition.It seems that his father, grandfather and great-grandfather had all been able to walk on water on their 21st birthday. On that day, they’d walk across the lake to the boat club for their first legal drink.So when Ole’s 21st birthday came around,…