One hour, 59 minutes, and 30 seconds. That’s the winning time for Sunday’s London Marathon winner, Sebastian Sawe, who did something no human had ever done before: run a marathon in an official race in under two hours. In case you were wondering, that is an average pace of
“Do you have any rules in your house?” I asked this question of the three-year-olds I teach in my Sunday School class. The lesson was the 10 commandments. Did the kids have rules? You betcha. Here are some of them: No eating hair No climbing on the table
If you’ve ever felt like you couldn’t compete with the big companies, things are shifting. Deloitte is slashing its employee benefits, according to Business Insider. Things like parental leave, IVF support payments, and even vacation will all be reduced as of January 2027. Every business should take note. When a
A job interview is a conversation between two liars. It’s a fairly common phrase, and we can all chuckle at it because, of course, the candidate overstates qualifications while the hiring manager understates the amount of work to be done. But it’s more than just a little bragging
While scrolling through X, I saw a video that made my HR blood boil. The scene is a young woman speaking with her boss through a computer screen. The boss tells her to turn on her camera. She objects, he pushes. She counters. “I’m just a bit confused.
“You should know that they need gym shoes in third grade.” This was an actual line my son’s teacher said to me (albeit in German). Please understand that from Kindergarten (two years’ worth) through second grade, gym shoes were forbidden, and they needed “Stoppersocken” (those socks with rubber
What’s better than free New York Mets tickets? New York Mets tickets that cost $10. While you may think free is an ideal price, a recent Mets giveaway shows the big problem with free: People don’t value what they don’t pay for, and many people will say they
“There is no ‘P’ in hamster.” This is not a controversial statement. Any dictionary will agree with it. Any pet store will too. But Carol Blymire overheard a conversation between a young employee with her boss, and this came up. The boss wanted a correction. The employee insisted that the
Billionaire Bill Ackman fired an employee, who is threatening to sue. He wrote 2,400 words on X asking for opinions. The quick summary is that Ackman discovered his family office, Table, had become bloated and inefficient after years of minimal oversight, so he brought in his nephew to investigate
Katyayani Shukla posted this on Twitter. Now she is in India, and I don’t know anything about Indian employment law, and generally write from a US (and sometimes European) perspective, but this is a question that comes up often. Why are employees expected to give two weeks’ (or
