Warehouse employee quits after 4 days when expected to work 12 hour shifts with no lunchbreak: ‘Fastest I’ve ever quit a job’

It takes abysmal working conditions to make a person walk out of a job in a matter of days. The vast majority of employees do what they do because they need the money, so it is usually no small decision to give up on a professional role that fast. In this job market in particular, …
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22 Spring Memes for Anyone Who Needs a Ray of Sunshine Energy

The sun came out, and suddenly I have goals again. Not sure what they are, but they feel very achievable right now. There’s something about warm spring days that instantly changes your entire outlook. One minute you’re indoors, wrapped in blankets, questioning everything, and the next you’re outside thinking maybe life is actually kind of …
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30+ Ice Cream Memes to Melt Your Bad Mood Away One Scoop at a Time

Because sometimes the only solution is a cold scoop and a frozen brain.  Ice cream is one of those things that always sounds like a good idea. Not sometimes. Not «it depends.» Always. Bad day? Ice cream. Good day? Ice cream. Random 11:47pm craving where you’re standing in front of the freezer like it personally …
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Análisis de Aphelion – Cuando la resiliencia es más que ciencia ficción

En la sempiterna 2001: Una odisea en el espacio, Kubrick plantea la evolución del ser humano y su constante búsqueda de la ruptura de los límites. Desde el descubrimiento y la utilización de las primeras herramientas rudimentarias -donde la especie ya mostraba sus pensamientos sombríos- hasta el llevarnos a preguntar qué hay más allá, como …
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Análisis de Aphelion – Cuando la resiliencia es más que ciencia ficción

En la sempiterna 2001: Una odisea en el espacio, Kubrick plantea la evolución del ser humano y su constante búsqueda de la ruptura de los límites. Desde el descubrimiento y la utilización de las primeras herramientas rudimentarias -donde la especie ya mostraba sus pensamientos sombríos- hasta el llevarnos a preguntar qué hay más allá, como …
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23-year-old finds out that stepmother turned her bedroom into a dog room, failed to tell her for months: ‘My boxes were in the garage’

What would you do if your room were suddenly turned into a room for a dog? As you grow up, you might have less attachment to your childhood room. You’ve probably moved out, maybe you have your own place, and are starting to cultivate your own life. But you still want that place to return …
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22-year-old forces roommate to hide from her parents because they think she’s living alone: ‘Are her parents paying her rent? Is she pocketing your rent?’

Something fishy is going on here.  If your roommates don’t do something that annoys you a little bit, you’re probably living with a robot and not a real person. If you decide to cohabitate with other people, you have to get used to the fact that they’re going to do little things that you don’t …
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Front desk intern declines to extend 10 month contract, manager complains as 6 interns quit before her: ‘We are throwing away a great opportunity’

Deciding to leave a workplace that no longer works for you can be one of the hardest professional decisions to make. We often think about quitting a job in a more positive sense, because somebody is retiring or has accepted a better offer at another company. However, there are numerous other, less happily-ever-after reasons that …
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