March 12, 2008 – 12:05 pm
From Rutland Herald’s Vermont lost 2,000 jobs last year: “New labor figures for Vermont may demonstrate the first effects of the national economic slowdown and the aging of the state’s workforce. The number of people employed in the state declined by about 2,000…over the last year, and the labor force — the number of Vermonters [...]
September 25, 2007 – 12:04 pm
From the Seattle Stranger’s article, Game Over: “On August 31, Jessica Zenner was driving her 3-year-old son to day care when her BlackBerry rang. It was the human resources director at Zenner’s work calling to tell her she was fired. The cause, Zenner says, was because her bosses at Nintendo discovered her personal blog, Inexcusable [...]
December 8, 2006 – 10:07 am
I’m tired.
It was a long day at work, but same as any other day. I apply for real jobs during the day and work as a retail whore at night.
IÂ’m not your special high-end whore; I donÂ’t rub sleeves with the likes of Gucci and Prada. My line of work falls on the lower socio-economic [...]
April 27, 2006 – 11:50 am
Back to a semi-annual recurring theme here on Fluid Imagination: In their article, “Gen Y’s opt-out vision,” the Christian Science Monitor writes that, “What social commentators are failing to point out is that both young men and women are not just opting out [of the traditional workforce], we’re not even buying in. …It comes down [...]
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