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    I don't like to buy into workplace rumours but...?

    Apparently the new girl got sacked from her last job for stealing, although the manager there gave her a good reference. Should I make the other girls aware of this? Just to be a bit wary? Apparently the manager told her good friend about The new girl, who told another girl who worked with us...
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    I don't like to buy into workplace rumours but...?

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    I don't like to buy into workplace rumours but...?

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    I don't like to buy into workplace rumours but...?

    Apparently the new girl got sacked from her last job for stealing, although the manager there gave her a good reference. Should I make the other girls aware of this? Just to be a bit wary? Apparently the manager told her good friend about The new girl, who told another girl who worked with us...
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    Do you play an active part in your school and or workplace? or home, lol?

    Home - I do the work. My grandma is handicapped and is really old, so I do the cooking, cleaning, all that. I also have the uncomfortable job to care for my grandmother (she's cranky). Workplace - I'm alright there. I am the fill-in janitor and a waiter at a cafe. I can give people sass...
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    Do people really gossip a lot in the workplace?

    yup that is why i work by myself - out on the farm - no annoying gossips - i get tired of listening to that crap - i really don't care who is doing what or whom - i really don't care who drives what - i really don't care about clothes - i really don't care who gained weight and they are still...
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    Redvespa awarded Best Small Workplace in New Zealand

    Not only is Wellington claiming the title 'Coolest Little Capital in the World' having recently been named the world's fourth best city to visit in 2011 by Lonely Planet, but it's also claiming the Best Small Workplace winner, according to this year's JRA Best Workplaces Awards.
  8. M

    How do you feel about crude and crass humor in the workplace?

    I just wasn't brought up around crude humor and bad language. But at my job, it abounds. I laugh and try to joke around with my co-workers...but I really feel uncomfortable with such poor taste in humor. Maybe I'm just prudish...maybe thats why people find me boring...but I really can't...
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    One Third Of Surveyed Workers Believe That Their Workplace Hinders Their Ability To L

    Despite the vast majority (91%) of workers believing that it is their employer's responsibility to create a healthy working environment, nearly a third (32%) of employees feels their workplace actually hinders their ability to lead a healthy lifestyle, according to new independent research...
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    What is it formally called or described under when, in the workplace, a co-worker...

    ...cannot complain...? I need to know what it is formally called, or how this is described and labeled under. The situation is: Two employees at any given company. One has a complaint about the other's PERFORMANCE/ (or otherwise attitude, behavior,etc.). The 1st employee complains DIRECTLY to...
  11. J

    Can something be done to a gossiping manager that starts rumors in the workplace?

    I want to know is there any legal actions that a former coworker of mine can take about a manager that gossips. She was just terminated without cause or reason, which I know is legal in my state. Some of my coworkers and I all know and agree that it was racial discrimination which we have proof...
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    My co-workers chastise me for spreading hurtful rumors around the workplace?

    News flash: It is not a rumor if it is TRUE! What am I doing wrong?
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    Health Reform Law Increases Workplace Protections For Breastfeeding Women

    A "little-noticed provision" in the new health reform law (PL 111-148) requires employers to provide breastfeeding women with break times and a private location -- other than a bathroom -- to express milk or breastfeed their infants, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. The provision, which...
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    Health Reform Law Increases Workplace Protections For Breastfeeding Women

    A "little-noticed provision" in the new health reform law (PL 111-148) requires employers to provide breastfeeding women with break times and a private location -- other than a bathroom -- to express milk or breastfeed their infants, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. The provision, which...
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    Health Reform Law Increases Workplace Protections For Breastfeeding Women

    A "little-noticed provision" in the new health reform law (PL 111-148) requires employers to provide breastfeeding women with break times and a private location -- other than a bathroom -- to express milk or breastfeed their infants, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel reports. The provision, which...
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    Smoking in the workplace?

    I work in a building which is shared between two companies and the majority of workers of the other company smoke. What bothers me is that they smoke in a room inside the building which we share. We have no access to the room and it is their rest area not a designated smoking room. They have...
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    Workplace Literacy Schemes Are Too Short To Improve Skills

    The five billion pound Skills for Life programme is based on the assumption that an improvement in literacy and numeracy will increase people's earning potential, as well as their productivity and employability. However, according to Professor Alison Wolf of King's College London who led the...
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    Is it bad that I express no interest in workplace or even barber shop gossip?

    I work around people who like to run their mouth all the time and nothing good comes from them most of the time. I'm surrounded by these types of individuals on a daily basis and they kind of give me a hard time for not participating in their silly games and gossip. Also, I have this feeling...
  19. J

    Had an argument with mom at her workplace?

    Felt like such a retard afterwards. Good job her boss is a good family friend. I should feel like a tit right? I mean she wasn't going to let me go to the bar but i ended up apologizing
  20. J

    If a group of people conspired against you in the workplace?

    a few years ago which cost you your job, and you recently found out the company they work for was closing it doors would you feel justice had been served? Oh, also the people lost the majority of their 401ks due to the failing market and will never be able to find adequate enough pay to cover...
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