19-year-old college student breaks into the ice rink that fired him and eats the food in the break room, hasn’t been caught in 3 months: ‘The break room is my only source of fresh and hot food’

To say that I eat at work is an understatement. I subsidize my diet with the various fruits, cheeses, sodas, and chips that are provided at my office. If a green apple, a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos, two cheese sticks, and a can of Diet Coke isn’t lunch, then I’ve been doing it wrong …
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‘They stopped paying for your lunch’: Workers contemplate why 9-5s became 9-6s and 8-5s

There’s no question that the 8-hour workweek was a revelation back in the 1920s. I can’t imagine having to work 12 hours a day every day without any weekends or breaks at all. It’s no wonder people died at an earlier age back then; the stress of being worked to your bones is so bad …
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‘Some days we aren’t here at all’: Small business’ unpredictable hours angers time-keepers of the internet

I wish we could return to a more rough-and-tumble way of life. Like the days of the Wild West, or maybe just the Wild West of the movies. I wish I was on a first-name basis with my local barkeep, and I wish he knew just how I liked my sasparilla. I wish I had …
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