You’d think finding your seat on an airplane would be one of the easiest parts of the flight. Airlines are pretty specific about that. Unlike concerts or some movie theaters where you can sit in one general area, when you fly, you choose your own seat. For those who get plane-sick, there are window seats;…
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Women are told what to wear and how to look at every age. You’d think by the time you were a senior citizen, your peers would cut you some slack about your appearance, but that is unfortunately not the case. Older people can be the most judgemental critics of others’ appearances. If I hear one…
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Some people want to have their cake and eat it too—this employer wanted to put their cake out on the street with a sign that said “free” and then sue whoever came along to take that perfectly good cake home with them. Now, it might come as a surprise to you that we’re not really…
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Don’t you just love a good coworker bond over a common hatred that you can just spend all shift gossiping with and feeling validated for it? Me too. Whether it’s a boss, a coworker, sports, anything. Nothing beats those special bonds that make work a little less miserable. Well, in this story, these coworkers became…
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Recently, I’ve been listening to ‘Dreams’ by The Cranberries nonstop. I don’t know why, but I have a couple of theories. My first theory is that my life is changing every day in every possible way. I never know what each day will bring, and without giving too much away, there have been some life-altering…
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Remember playing would you rather on the play ground as a kid? The questions would be something wholesome like, “would you rather have candy every day for the rest of your life, but never get recess again or never eat candy again, but have recess forever?” And then as you got old the questions started…
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This epic tale of payback takes the kind of mastermind-level plotting and scheming most people could never pull off. That being said, I have definitely gotten some level of second-hand fulfillment from this employee-turned-boss’s story. Now, I have never been in this kind of position professionally where a manager of mine took my ideas without…
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