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Bossfeed Briefing

The week in work

BossFeed: That Deserves Five Stars

Guest User December 18, 2015

The week in work: drivers in Seattle win the right to organize; trucking companies worry about having to raise wages; the most effective staff meeting ever; turkeys attack a postal worker, a rabbit attacks everyone, and a cat attacks the political class.

BossFeed: Soft Spot

Guest User December 11, 2015

The week in work: getting knocked down, 1%-style; working overtime at a Yakima motel; the link between popcorn lung and e-cigarettes; alligator vigilantes, owl on owl violence, and some smart counter-programming.

BossFeed: Keep your eyes on the surprise

Guest User December 5, 2015

The week in work: Alaska has unanswered questions about why they always lose; Walmart calls Lockheed, the FBI, and store managers; cheesemaking while sick; a donkey nabbed, an excited calf, and a squirrel attacks.

BossFeed: Missed Connections

Guest User November 20, 2015

The week in work: what happened after that Uber attack; perceptions of a rigged system depressing turnout; shepherds finally get a raise; an emu escapes, a wallaby escapes, and two zebras escape.

BossFeed: Cite for Fifteen

Guest User October 30, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: a local business publication reports the truth; bossing around the indebted; big business spends big; lion attacks, bear attacks, and squirrel attacks.

BossFeed: Good problems, and not-so-good problems

Guest User October 23, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: high-stress food service jobs; Missouri gone wild; 1% problems; hungry sea lions, urban kangaroos, and a tweeting chicken.

BossFeed: The 99 Percent Store

Guest User October 16, 2015

The week in work: the dollar store as a toxic workplace; shore leave means mall runs; opting out of workers compensation; a hero dog, a dead rat, and a less-than-gruff goat.

BossFeed: Apology dissected

Guest User October 10, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: coffee cup job actions and franchise responsibilities; Americans with $0 of savings; the Uber economy comes home; and the surprising treatment of a 3-legged raccoon

BossFeed: Add enough disclaimers and it starts to sound suspicious

Guest User October 2, 2015

The week in work: the other jobs Amazon creates; not really an appropriate break time activity; Washington falls to third; elk selfies, fish records, and monkeys on the loose.

BossFeed: Signs of the Times

Guest User September 25, 2015

The week in work: if homeless people are the butt of your joke, you’re doing it wrong; grocery chain expands and contracts and hosts pajama party; Sweden experiments with reduced work hours; rodents die, deer attack, and giraffe say hmmmm.

BossFeed: Mountains and mole-holes

Guest User September 18, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: thin penalties for serious health & safety violations; when more hours leads to lower productivity; Amazon’s gender imbalance is so big that…; asthmatic otters, wandering emus, and aggressive goats.

BossFeed: Short-circuiting the argument

Guest User September 11, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: the robotic uprising is not a moral force; $15 blowing in the wind; the opposite of going above & beyond at work; free expression vs. free evangelism; and the last line says it all.

BossFeed: Plunder twins, deactivate!

Guest User September 4, 2015

The week in work: a right to organize for Uber & Lyft drivers; lower wages for the lowest-wage workers; a company union in the carnival industry; selling plasma to survive; plus rams, monkeys, and chickens.

BossFeed: Go retro

Guest User August 28, 2015

The week in work: airport workers demand $15 in inflation-adjusted 2014 dollars, retroactive to last January 1st; the opposite of raising Arizona is filing suit against $15; it was like Uber for your work schedule, but you’re the driver; a graphical account of changing conditions at nail salons; and animals-as-metaphors.

BossFeed: Make it work moments

Guest User August 14, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: unpaid interns sue the Olsen Twins; Wendy’s executives make oddly familiar minimum wage predictions; sex workers and the call for decriminalization; and angry eagles, sad turtles, and distressed horses.

BossFeed: Other duties as assigned

Guest User August 7, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: Starbucks CEO not running for President, not that you were asking; textile mills moving *from* China; Walmart workers unhappy about a raise; Seattle restaurant anecdotes go sideways; and wildlife misfires.

BossFeed: Make a short story long

Guest User July 31, 2015

The week in work: a short career in department store retail; the long view on a $15 minimum wage story; time to make a donut shop argument about raising wages; and pandas, rattlesnakes and otters refuse to do as asked.

BossFeed: Fears for tiers

Guest User July 24, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: United Auto Workers try to mend their wage scale; your boss isn’t your family; organizing isn’t a gig yet; and 0111 swans a swimming.

Secret of their success

Guest User July 17, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: having rich parents is a funny form of luck; the fast food life in Greece; LGTBQ employment discrimination now illegal; and bad seeds in the animal kingdom.

Despite all my rage, I am still just a bat in a cage

Guest User July 10, 2015

BossFeed, the week in work: profanity, safety, and coal miners; localization, corporate control, and fast food franchises; siblinghood, bootstraps, and inheritance; and sharks, monkeys, and bats.