The Israeli military has acknowledged it was responsible for killing a UN aid worker in a strike on a UN compound in Gaza last month, backtracking on its previous denials.
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Freelancing is great for some reasons, but terrible for others. It gives you freedom to choose when you’re going to work, doesn’t attach you to any particular company, and lets you do multiple things instead of holding one role for one place. You might be able to piecemeal together a better life and a better salary freelancing than you could with regular work, plus you can take a 3-week vacation if you feel like you’ve earned it.
The downsides, though, are many. You have to spend so much time (unpaid) looking for work. You may go through boom and bust cycles that can be hard to plan a budget around. And you don’t get any benefits from the companies you freelance for (like healthcare and PTO). Also, companies love to take advantage of freelancers, so you have to get really good at advocating for yourself. Otherwise, you might end up with nothing to show for it.
In the digital age, we have all been spoiled by the ease with which we can share our written ideas with others, but let’s take a moment to appreciate the skill, time, and resources that were once required to bring a text into print. This post examines the processes involved in operating a printing press in the 15th-18th centuries.
Read MoreThe government is considering allowing foreign workers under the program to take orders and serve and cook food at restaurants at inns and hotels.
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During the hand press era, composing the text of a book was among the most technical elements of the printing process. This post describes the labor involved in typesetting and imposition.
Read MoreJudge Takeshi Okuyama, who presided over the lay-judge trial at Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture, issued the ruling.
Read MoreJudge Takeshi Okuyama, who presided over the lay-judge trial at Yokohama District Court in Kanagawa Prefecture, issued the ruling.
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The best thing about employment is getting compensated for your work. No doubt about it. Sure, there are plenty of things we do, and enjoy doing without the incentive of pay. But we call those activities hobbies and volunteering, not work. This is the main tenant of jobs. You work, and then you are paid, so you can live your life and pay for the necessary goods and services it takes to be a human in this world. This is a pretty simple axiom, and yet it seems to trouble many employers.
When you’re a salaried worker, you might be willing to do a little work outside your job description now and then in order to help out your company. This will increase your chances of higher compensation in the future, you think. But when you’re an hourly worker, especially at a low-paying job, the idea of working for free is insane. Not to mention illegal.
Saint André Bessette was orphaned at 12, and eventually worked in the United States during the Civil War. At 25, he became a Brother of the Holy Cross.
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Work is all about attitude. If the people you work with have a bad attitude, it can rub off on the whole operation. You might enjoy the work you do, find purpose in it, and find that it suits your lifestyle, but a business is only as good as its people. If its people aren’t your kind of people or worse- they’re not even the kind of people that you respect, then it’s hard to stay. For example, you might be an educator who finds incredible meaning in working with your students. They appreciate you, and you help improve their lives. Whenever you’re in the classroom, you feel like you’re in the right place. However, the assistant principal (who you directly report to) has no sense of work-life balance and expects you to drop everything for every work-related non-emergency. Even though you love your job, people like that can make it feel hostile.
That’s what happened in this situation, when a worker who had already invested a lot in their career, lost all hope when their boss uttered a single phrase.
[Namibian] Louren Skrywer (37) had high hopes when she was offered a position as a domestic worker at the Namibian embassy in the United States (US).
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Most of us learned in school that Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press, which is not entirely accurate. He is, however, conventionally credited with inventing the process of mass-producing individual pieces of type. These innovations in moveable type allowed for books to be efficiently produced in large quantities and revolutionized the human ability to share ideas. This post explains the multi-step process of mass-producing metal letters to be used in printing texts.
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Before today’s thin, brittle paper made from wood pulp became standard, paper was handcrafted by experts using linen rags as the essential material. This post explains the process by which rag paper was made in Europe for centuries.
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Are you tired of hearing Mariah Carrey’s voice yet?
Every year, she crawls back from some hole where only dolphin squeals can be heard in the distance and bestows upon the good-natured townsfolk a single song that is so catchy, so upbeat, and so belligerently overplayed that it becomes the bane of every retail worker’s existence. All WE want for Christmas is a little variety in our Christmas tunes, okay?
Hating MC doesn’t mean that you don’t still love the holiday season, it just means you’re more tasteful than the mainstream. Curated decor, scented candles, and an ideal TV fireplace are all a testament to your holiday spirit.
There are yule-tide cookie tips and the Schnapp-chocolate recipes magnetized to your fridge as well as the rampage of gift ideas swirling through your head like fresh falling snow. The holiday season is upon us and there’s nowhere else for this cheerful energy to go! Embrace your love for the holiday season because it’ll be here before you know it. In only 3 weeks’ time, Santa and his reindeer come clopping down your rooftop spreading merriment, magic, and you guessed it, a sack full of gifts! (and maybe a lump of coal for your least favorite nephew)
DUBLIN – Ireland’s prime minister has apologised repeatedly in the run-up to Friday’s election, after a clip of him walking away from an exasperated care worker encapsulated voters’ frustration at the cash-rich government’s failure to deliver better services.
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Working from home has changed so many people’s lives. I know people who travel the world and are able to finance that not by being an underpaid au pair but by working for an American company remotely. There’s a whole community on Reddit dedicated to the overemployed: people who have two or three remote jobs that they work at from home to bring home six-figure paychecks. Some of us like the small pleasures of working from home. My dad gets to join meetings with his dogs by his side, and I think that’s beautiful.
With all the benefits working from home brings, there are always downsides. Just because your job can’t control whether you work at the coffee shop or from your bed doesn’t mean they can’t dictate what city you live in. The remote worker in this story wanted to move to the land of 10,000 lakes, but his job prevented it.
The theft by a front-line employee responsible for managing the safe deposit boxes took place at two branches in Tokyo over 4½ years.
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This traveling businessman had had enough of their silly company policy because after a 14-hour shift and with no motivation to go out to a restaurant, this worker pointed out the flaws in his micromanager’s meal reimbursement rules.
If you’ve ever traveled for work, you know it’s no vacation.
Somehow, traveling employees end up working egregiously long hours, awaiting micromanager’s orders, and eating takeout for every meal. While this is a dream for some, it’s a nightmare for homebodies and anyone who enjoys a home-cooked meal every now and then. But when the guy in this next story, a businessman out of the country for work, got home from a terribly long day, all he wanted was a simple meal delivered to his hotel room. Per company policy, and because he had a helicopter manager, the guy was forbidden to order room service–no matter what!
So instead of paying out of pocket, the employee played out his patience on a long-distance phone call, waiting for 10 minutes on hold for his micromanager to approve a single meal reimbursement, accruing an insane amount of cellular fees for the sake of proving a point. Keep scrolling for this delicious compliance that ended in an exhausted worker getting to put his feet up for a change on an out-of-town shift.
“I would say family and part of that ‘first-gen experience’ [shaped me]…It shaped me to be a hard worker and to aspire to large things because not only was it my goal at this point, but it was also my parents’ aspiration.” – Zaida Hernandez, Engineer, Lunar Architecture Team, NASA’s Johnson Space Center
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