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10 votes
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Forty online resources all women in tech careers should know about
7 votes -
Workers with disabilities are making cents per hour — and it’s legal
19 votes -
How to Be Great? Just be Good, Repeatably
10 votes -
New York could become the first state to fully decriminalize sex work
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The Fair Work Ombudsman has finalised its investigation into Uber and found its drivers to be independent contractors, not employees.
ABC news article: Uber drivers are not employees, Fair Work Ombudsman finds Fair Work Ombudsman's media release: Uber Australia investigation finalised
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A generation is learning how to strike: An interview with Isra Hirsi
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When you leave your old job on good terms, you want to ensure a smooth transition to make life easier for your replacement. This succession planning checklist can help you to hand over the reins.
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One Year Off, Every Seven Years: How about this for a demand? You work for six years and you get a whole paid year off to do whatever the hell you want.
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How Montreal freelancers are organizing
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With workers hard to find, immigration crackdown leaves Iowa town in a bind
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California teachers pay for their own substitutes during extended sick leave
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I’m writing an article about “How to hand over the reins when you leave a job.” I’d like your advice about what I should include.
My premise is that you genuinely want to help the company and the next person who moves into your old position. Maybe you got a promotion, or you found an even-better job. In any case, you want...
My premise is that you genuinely want to help the company and the next person who moves into your old position. Maybe you got a promotion, or you found an even-better job. In any case, you want the old coworkers to succeed, and you want to make a smooth transition.
So there’s a few pieces to this:
• What do you do when you leave a job?
• What have other people done, when they left/moved on, that gave you the knowledge and skills you needed to excel?
• What did they NOT provide that you wish they had?
It’d be easy for me to focus on “what did you do” but none of us know how successful that was. So tell me, rather, about your experience as the person picking up the reins. What did that teach you about the process?
Anecdotes welcome! (And tell me how to refer to you in the article. Private is fine.)
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How to rebuild the labor movement, state by state
9 votes -
The American Dream is killing us
14 votes -
It’s time to stop referring to maternity leave as “generous”
10 votes -
Labor in Algeria’s revolt
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I’m a North Carolina public school teacher. Here’s why I’m walking out today.
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I can't do anything for fun anymore; every hobby is an attempt to make money
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Microsoft staff are openly questioning the value of diversity
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We just remembered how to strike
9 votes -
Colorado could be the next state to let its employees collectively bargain
8 votes -
How great managers give and receive feedback
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I'm a paramedic, please stop asking me about the worst thing I've ever seen
21 votes -
Stop Asking Kids What They Want To Be When They Grow Up
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Tipping thoughts?
I apologize in advance for the massive flame war which will likely ensue but I'm not sure we have a thread for this yet. General thoughts on tipping? Not US specific, could be about anywhere
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Nauru refugees struggling with life in the US 'Valley of Opportunity'
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It’s not just the isolation. Working from home has surprising downsides.
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How much actual work do you do in a day?
After watching Office Space for the first time a few weeks ago, I was struck by the scene where Peter is talking about his average working day, and it got me to wondering about how much actual...
After watching Office Space for the first time a few weeks ago, I was struck by the scene where Peter is talking about his average working day, and it got me to wondering about how much actual work I do at my job. I'm pretty sure that even on a good day, I put in less than 2 hours of actual graft. The rest is just mindless internetting, chatting with my colleagues, and wishing I was elsewhere.
So I'm curious how much work other people actually do in a day, and how you pass the time when you're not doing anything at all?30 votes -
Advice for a soon to be college graduate
I am going to be graduating with a BA in Economics in May, and I am overwhelmed, like most people, with all the stuff that I am now responsible for. I was mostly wondering what advice you wish you...
I am going to be graduating with a BA in Economics in May, and I am overwhelmed, like most people, with all the stuff that I am now responsible for. I was mostly wondering what advice you wish you heard when you were 22.
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Jobs in southeast Kentucky's coal mines are vanishing. Can green jobs replace them?
4 votes -
Amazon finds an alternative workforce through Northwest Center, a Seattle nonprofit helping people with disabilities
4 votes -
You’ve been asked to moderate a panel… what now?
5 votes -
Bernie Sanders' staff unionizes in US presidential campaign first
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‘The hangman was too tired to hang me – three times’
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On the death of my family's dairy farm
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Doesn’t matter if you’re dead, just make sure to show up
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Stop telling women to fix sexist workplaces
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‘Colony of hell’: 911 calls from inside Amazon warehouses
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What it’s like working as an Amazon Flex delivery driver
5 votes -
Workism is making Americans miserable
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Trying to figure out my personal craziness
I hope this is the appropriate Tilde for this. If no one has any input it will still have helped me to type this out. TL;DR In over my head with marriage, foster care, family, and work. My wife...
I hope this is the appropriate Tilde for this. If no one has any input it will still have helped me to type this out.
TL;DR In over my head with marriage, foster care, family, and work.
My wife and I became foster parents about 1.5 years ago with the intention to not adopt, but to care for children 3 and under while bio parents worked to regain custody or other permanent placements were arranged. Our first placement was two girls (7 mo and 2.5 yrs) despite wanting to do just one kid at a time (especially to start). We had them for 6 weeks and mom got them back. We had another placement (8 mo boy) for about another 6 weeks. There was a considerable lull and we were getting frustrated about not getting any new placements when the girls from our first placement were placed into custody again. So we were able to take them in again (now about 1.2 and 3.5 yrs). FF to now and we've had them for about 6 months.
We never really intended to have more than one child and for quite this long and we're struggling. My wife has always had a little less ability to weather stressful situations like this and these last 2-3 weeks I'm carrying a lot of weight. In the meantime, bio mom has gotten pregnant and there's not another hearing regarding custody for another 9 months. We fully expect that she will not be able to take them back at that time (or really realistically ever). What should probably happen would be that the county could place the kids into permanent custody (basically getting them adopted). However, from what we've heard from other foster families, temporary custody could drag on for years.
So, our main dilemma is this. We are not equipped (as a couple) to care for these kids for years. With the likely prospect of no change in custody in the near future, it feels like the best thing for these kids would be to get them into the care of someone looking to do this long-term, perhaps to eventually adopt. That being said, we absolutely love them and it feels like some kind of betrayal to force them to make yet another transition. On the other hand, with our limitations, it seems like that is inevitable anyway. Do we try to make that happen sooner?
Some other data points:
Our fostering license expires in October (about a month after the hearing is scheduled) and we don't intend to continue fostering (at least for a while, and definitely not with our current agency).
We don't have many family members close by to give us a hand with the kids, making us feel isolated and making it hard to get breaks from the kids. Our agency has not been very helpful with lining up respite care, but we're trying to be more aggressive about that now.
I've got things pretty well lined up to retire in about 5 years. My company is also just now kicking off a major project of a similar time frame and I'm in a good position to really make a mark before moving on. It will probably require some serious time commitments and effort to do it the way I want to.Thanks for listening.
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America's professional elite: Wealthy, successful and miserable
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An Honest Living - Steve Salaita tries to make sense of his unusual transition from a tenured professorship to an hourly wage driving school buses
10 votes -
Worked to death at FedEx
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Time for happiness - Research consistently shows that the happiest people use their money to buy time
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US Appeals Court rules key anti-age discrimination protections don’t apply to job seekers, only employees
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Home/remote workers, any advice or tips?
I've recently accepted a new developer role for a small tech company where everyone works remotely. I've had experience of working from home as a freelancer in the past and slightly more recently...
I've recently accepted a new developer role for a small tech company where everyone works remotely. I've had experience of working from home as a freelancer in the past and slightly more recently working for a distributed company, although there I was working in a small shared office with one other colleague.
I wondered if anyone has any tips or advice on how best to remain productive as well as avoid distractions and try to keep a work/life balance?
I do intend to eventually find a co-working space but immediately I plan to work from home for at least the first few months.
Thanks!
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How to pick a career (that actually fits you)
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Wright State faculty ends one of the longest strikes at a public university in US history
4 votes