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Company Offers Employees A Pay Raise If They Get Company Logo Tattoo [POLL]

Lisa Lindsey — Thu, 02 May 2013 14:08:24 +0000

What would you do for a 15% raise? Would you get inked for your company? That’s what Rapid Realty in New York is offering it’s employees. The owner, Anthony Lolli got the idea when one of his employees got the company logo tattooed out of loyalty to his employer. Anthony wanted to repay his loyalty, [...]

Store Charges $5 "Just Looking Fee", Are They Nuts? [POLL]

Lisa Lindsey — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 11:10:13 +0000

Do you go to a store, see a product then find it online cheaper? Some stores want to stop us from looking at products in their store. Well, wait a minute, not exactly. They want to charge us a fee for looking at a product!That is what is happening at a health food store in [...]

Nap Time at Work a Growing Trend

Lisa Lindsey — Mon, 25 Mar 2013 11:10:53 +0000

Nap Time at work! It’s a growing trend. Cool!With the work day getting longer and longer some businesses are letting their employees take naps. They say it recharges the employees and there for they are more productive. In this video from WRAL-TV in Raleigh, North Carolina, Brooks Bell who owns a web development company put [...]

Companies Tell Employees: Stop Check Your Email After Work Hours [POLL]

Lisa Lindsey — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 14:15:44 +0000

Are you too connected to work? Do you check your email after work hours? If so, then you might feel tired and have a hard time separating work from your personal life. According to the Washington post, one out of four companies are recognizing this and are telling their employees to NOT check their email [...]

13 Signs Your Office Is Way Too Dirty

Aaron on Air — Wed, 30 May 2012 23:59:21 +0000

The Majority of most Nine to Fiver’s lives are spent in an office environment, whether it’s a cubicle in a large multinational corporation or a little desk we’ve set up in a living room in our homes. The latter is actually less of an office and more of a work space where you don’t get [...]

Fantasy Maid Service Will Clean College Dirty Dorm Rooms

Aaron on Air — Wed, 18 Apr 2012 01:42:33 +0000

Authorities are investigating a new business that has suddenly cropped up. The “Fantasy Maid Service” offers an attractive woman, wearing barely anything, to clean your home or office. Owner Melissa Borrett says she’s an entrepreneur trying to make ends meet after her waitressing jobs didn’t pay the rent. For 100-bucks she’ll clean your [...]

Nationwide Gas Strike Event April 15th

Aaron on Air — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 01:20:20 +0000

This morning, I came across a Facebook event, titled “GAS STRIKE” that nearly a half-million people have signed up to “attend” today.The Nationwide Event which involves boycotting gas stations for one day is scheduled for a full dayApril 15, 2012, in hopes that it will send a message to congress, oil companies, and even the President that Americans [...]

Easiest Jobs in the World

Jeff Easterling — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 19:01:55 +0000

Does your job stress you out? If you get all stressed up on your way to work, you probably do not have one of the easiest jobs in the world. I saw a story on Yahoo about the easiest jobs on the planet. You probably won’t get filthy rich on any of these, but you [...]

What is Your Walk-Away Number?

Jeff Easterling — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 10:53:10 +0000

Over the weekend, I overheard a conversation with a question…”What is your walk-away number?” That is the amount of money it would take for you to just walk away from your job without anything else lined up. So, what would your walk away number be? There is no right or wrong answer, but if you [...]

Is the Full Tilt Poker Site Just a Massive Ponzi Scheme?

Aaron on Air — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 19:26:46 +0000

Full Tilt Poker, one of the Internet’s most popular poker sites, operated “as a massive Ponzi scheme against its own players,” alleges Manhattan’s US attorney. The allegations come as part of a civil money laundering complaint claiming that funds the site raised went to pay members of its board of directors, which includes poker pros Howard Lederer and Christopher “Jesus” Ferguson

Ten Brands That Will Disappear in 2012

Jeff Easterling — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 19:00:47 +0000

Every year, the website 24/7 Wall Street compiles a list of brands that are about to go extinct. Here are is a list of their predictions for the ten brands that’ll go extinct NEXT year, or within the next 18 months. Sometimes they’re a little off … last year they predicted the end of BP, [...]

Americans Are Ditching Cereal Like Crazy… Here Are the Six Brands Taking It the Hardest

Jeff Easterling — Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:00:43 +0000

Remember a decade ago when every single person in the country ate cereal for breakfast? Yeah, that’s a distant memory now. Americans just aren’t that into cereal anymore. And it’s not a low-carb thing… come on. We love carbs more than ever. It’s just that for breakfast, we now prefer things like bagels, Egg McMuffins, [...]

Here Are Six Facts About the Stripping Industry, Courtesy of a Major Academic Study

Jeff Easterling — Fri, 08 Apr 2011 05:11:33 +0000

The University of Leeds in England has been running a major survey on the stripping industry, and they just released a report with their initial findings. We pulled out the six best ones strictly for your intellectual fulfillment. #1.) While 40.2% of strippers do it as their only job, the rest have a day job, [...]