In this country, it’s not uncommon to see employees spending their lunch at their desks, hurriedly scarfing down their meals. In Sweden, however, it’s another story.
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Tags: Disco, Lunch Beat, No work talk, Sweden, Techno music
When potential customers abandon this firm’s website without making a purchase, they get an email urging them to come back and see what they missed. But it looks like the company didn’t put too much thought into what customers actually saw when they returned.
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Tags: Ancestry.com, Automated email, Death certificate, Genealogy
Here’s an employee who moonlighted as a mixed martial arts fighter and racked up an impressive record doing so. Problem is, he allegedly won a bunch of the fights while he was out on workers’ compensation.
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Tags: Los Angeles firefighter, MMA, Raphael "Noodle" Davis, Workers' comp, YouTube
Some companies offer short, polite rejection letters to let eager applicants know they weren’t what the company had in mind. This website’s hiring manager, however, decided to go into much greater detail.
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Tags: Application dos and don'ts, Clean tech news, Rejection letter, Shea Gunther
Last week, we ran a story about a group of law firm employees who were fired for a seemingly innocuous reason: They wore orange shirts. But some new details have emerged about the workers who were given pink slips for wearing orange.
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Tags: Fireable offense, Happy hour, Orange shirts, Pink slips, Protest
You may want to encourage all of your employees to avoid business lunches at this establishment — an eatery that literally lives up to its name.
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Tags: ButterFat Shakes, Flatliner Fries, Heart attack, The Heart Attack Grill, Triple Bypass Burger
When businesses decide to start a Twitter account, they’re hoping for some meaningful interaction with customers – but sometimes they get this instead.
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Tags: @Dove, @SlimJim, DumbTweet@Brands, Twitter
If any of your mustachioed Finance workers are absent on April 1, there’s a good chance you’ll find them at this event.
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Tags: American Mustache Institute, Million Mustache March, STACHE Act, Stimulus to Allow Critical Hair Expenses, White House
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the latest stats on workplace romance are in and, if you’re looking, Finance is a great field to work.
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Tags: CareerBuilder, Co-worker, Dating, Valentine's Day, Workplace romance
When this young Finance hopeful put his personal stamp on a cover letter that went out to all of the major firms on Wall Street, he was looking to get noticed. But probably not in this way.
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Tags: Bank of America, Business Insider, Cover letter, Merrill Lynch, Wall Street
