Paltrow Can't Imagine Going Back to Work
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Now that baby Apple's on board, actress Gwyneth Paltrow is putting the brakes on her film career.
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Few people understand the challenges faced by the District's disabled residents the way Judith E. Heumann does. She knows the impact of a broken elevator at a Metro station -- and the frustration of being told she cannot do something she wants to do.
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The building-materials specialist bears the brunt of the downturn.
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People struck down by a stomach bug sweeping the country have been urged not to go back to work for 48 hours.
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The company is far from resting on its laurels.
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Mariam, a 28-year-old employee at a retail chain in France, went to great lengths to get fired. She knew she wouldn't be eligible for unemployment payments if she simply quit. Mariam asked her company flat-out to fire her, but she was turned down. Then she simply stopped showing up for work. Her wish was granted at last Â she was fired, went on the dole and found a new job six months later.
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Returning from vacation is hard on a lot of people. It's especially hard on the Luddite, though, so here's his whine on the subject. Commentary by Tony Long.
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It seems that even pregnancy cannot keep Julia Roberts away from work, as the actress is already chalking out her post-pregnancy plans.
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I once had a boss who could put my stomach in knots just by walking past my desk. This person was so scary that even today, decades later, I still get chills thinking about her reign of terror.
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Home on sick leave two years ago, Ammar Halloum says he watched the Enron Corp. investigation play out on television â-hen decided he had to blow the whistle on his own employer.
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A CEO reveals some horrible news.
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They have job duties taken away, so they are marginalized in the office. They get stripped of their security clearances, so they can't work. They are blacklisted, so they can't find employment. They are reassigned to new locations, so they have to choose between moving or losing their jobs.
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More than half of all employees say they have Âhigh levels of stress,Â extreme fatigue and/or feel out of control.
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Joseph Glazier has seen the cost of his phone service double this year and his utility bills could do the same. He cannot ride the bus for free anymore. Subsidized prescriptions for his ailing eyes and ears have long since stopped.
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When I suggested in a recent column that a problematic 5 percent of employees account for 75 percent of the IT support burden, I expected a wave of âright on!â letters from IT support staffers. After the column was published, the letters did come â most of them disagreeing with my premise, with one reader suggesting that the real whiner was yours truly. I still think itâs outside the realm of overextended IT departments to provide training on basic computing skills (which I defined as âmanaging and finding files, and basic working knowledge of suites such as MS Officeâ). But my thinking was adjusted a bit by the thoughtful feedback.
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Staff who struggle into work when they are ill risk potentially shortening their lives, researchers believe.
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Viktor Parshutkin knows the occupational  hazards of being a Russian defense lawyer: long hours, stress,  and the risk of imprisonment in a jail so overcrowded the  inmates have to sleep in shifts.