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

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

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BossFeed: The 99 Percent Store

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.

 

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BossFeed: Apology dissected

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

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BossFeed: Add enough disclaimers and it starts to sound suspicious

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.

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BossFeed: Signs of the Times

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.

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BossFeed: Mountains and mole-holes

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.

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BossFeed: Short-circuiting the argument

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.

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BossFeed: Plunder twins, deactivate!

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.

 

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BossFeed: Go retro

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. 

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BossFeed: Make it work moments

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. 

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BossFeed: Other duties as assigned

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.

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BossFeed: Make a short story long

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.

 

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BossFeed: Fears for tiers

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.

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Secret of their success

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. 

 

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

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.

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When it's time to change

BossFeed, the week in work: retail lobbyists work it against overtime; one cheer for minimum wage; Victoria lets on a secret; and beavers, turtles, and robots do what they do.

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Living wage on a prayer

BossFeed, the week in work: women’s clothing & brain function; discrimination at Zara; farmworkers pick the right fights; and various things that don’t quite measure up.

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So many ways to hit rock bottom

BossFeed, the week in work: the Uber ick-factor; a consensus vote of no confidence; Tacoma rocks it against visible poverty; and animals reborn free.

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The sigh of the tiger

BossFeed, the week in work: another McDonald’s new hire; fair housing enforcement; a look at working on an ocean liner; and tigers everywhere but your tank. 

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That story has legs

BossFeed, the week in work: the only bad news about fifteen is a sea serpent; retail work and wholesale racial disproportionality; the look of religious freedom; and KFC just can’t help themselves.

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