6 month ago
philgyford : Why Zappos Pays New Employees to Quit—And You Should Too - Harvard Business Online's Bill Taylor - Much linked-to article about an online shoe-selling firm and how it's a great place to work. They offer new recruits $1000 to quit, in order to only keep people who are keen. (via Kottke)
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deusx : Not An Employee - "We do not work for you. You do not work for us. We choose to work together."
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11 month ago
Linkorama : How to Lose Your Job on Your Own Time - A line needs to be drawn — Day-Glo bright — that demarcates the boundary between work and private life.
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20 month ago
nelson : Dodgeball founders quit Google - They lasted less than two years! Sad for everyone involved.
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Two factor theory is the theory that talks about motivators and hygiene factors in working environments - Hygiene factors are things that need to be in place and if they're not dissatisfaction occurs. Motivators are the things that create actual satisfaction.
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22 month ago
plasticbag : Employment (II) (1633) by George Herbert - "Man is no starre, but a quick coal of mortall fire; Who blows it not, nor doth controll A faint desire, Let's his own ashes choke his soul"
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24 month ago
plasticbag : Oxbridgelife - a profoundly troubling and actually quite insulting website designed to find jobs for people from Oxford and Cambridge - Note that it's really got nothing to do with whether the people who went there were any good, just that they happened to go to a couple of universities. A solid embodiment of old boy networks...
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26 month ago
deusx : Where Faith Abides, Employees Have Few Rights - New York Times - "His client was a middle-aged novice training to become a nun in a Roman Catholic religious order in Toledo. She said she had been dismissed by the order after she became seriously ill — including a diagnosis of breast cancer."
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29 month ago
merlinmann : NPR : Best Buy Cuts Workers Loose from Clock, Desks - Best Buy claims that a results-based policy, letting some employees work whenever they want, has increased productivity.
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31 month ago
plasticbag : 37signals job board seems to be ticking over quite nicely... - I wonder what the quality of the candidates they get through the site is like, and whether they're a good fit to their potential new employers...
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36 month ago
François Nonnenmacher : How Google woos the best and brightest
plasticbag : "How Google woos the best and brightest" - One thing occurs to me is that such structures should either be well known, or kept very secret. All recruitment seems to be a gameable system. Ideally they should be well-known, so that everyone has equal access to the cheats...
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38 month ago
jimray : Genuine VC: Seven Questions Employees Should Ask Before Joining a Startup
WillPate : Seven Questions Employees Should Ask Before Joining a Startup
Nelson Minar : Joining a startup? - Questions to ask (via populicious)
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42 month ago
jkottke : Six reasons why crunch mode doesn't work - "There's a bottom-line reason most industries gave up crunch mode over 75 years ago: It's the single most expensive way there is to get the work done."
Matthew M. Boedicker : Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons
Paul Hammond : IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons - There's a bottom-line reason most industries gave up crunch mode over 75 years ago: It's the single most expensive way there is to get the work done.
plasticbag : A really interesting article on declines in human productivity when working in 'crunch mode' - I tend to encourage workstreams in three month cycles, limiting any crunch periods to the last two or three weeks
43folders : IGDA - Articles - Why Crunch Mode Doesn't Work: 6 Lessons - Productivity drops immediately upon starting overtime and continues to drop until, at approximately eight 60-hour weeks, the total work done is the same as what would have been done in eight 40-hour weeks.
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44 month ago
plasticbag : Microsoft Comes Under Fire for Reversal on Gay Rights Bill - It looks like Microsoft have buckled under pressure from Christians threatening a Microsoft boycott. A better move would be to talk to all their competitors and go in as a united body.
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44 month ago
deusx : Workers of the world... relax! | MetaFilter - "Why work? Why not play instead?"
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46 month ago
kaninka.net : www.whywork.org - Af hverju að vera þræll á launum?
deusx : CLAWS: Creating Livable Alternatives to Wage Slavery - "We're a pro-leisure and anti-wage-slavery group of people dedicated to exploring the question: why work?"
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46 month ago
plasticbag : Annoying article about Waterstones must be regretting firing that annoying weblog guy for calling them Bastardstone's etc... - But he was an arse! He deserved to get fired! I can see how grey areas could emerge, but this doesn't appear to be one. I think this is making the webloggers look dumb, not Waterstones...
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47 month ago
plasticbag : Blogger sacked for sounding off - For God's sake of course you get fired if you publically refer to your employer as "Bastardstones" and write rude things about your boss all the bloody time... You have to learn to sublimate your rage! Duh!
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47 month ago
jkottke : Ways to fix your life: quit your job
Jeremy Zawodny : Ways to fix your life: Quit your job - Ways to fix your life: Quit your job: someday I'm just going to walk away and teach people to fly... someday
plasticbag : Ways to fix your life: Quit your job - And I quote: In some ways, now is a better time than ever to quit. "If you've been at one company for too long, corporate America figures that you are a dud," says Barbara Sher...
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plasticbag : What the hell does being gay have to do with getting a job? - So here we go - some bloke on a website decides to give me a hard time for mentioning that I'm gay on a mock-up of a business card. As usual the crime is forcing my sexuality down his throat. Get. A. Job.
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49 month ago
jkottke : Electronic Arts is a 21st century sweatshop
plasticbag : Electronic Arts as a modern-day sweatshop - "On weekdays, his team worked from 9 to 10 (that is, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.), and on Saturdays, a half-day (that means 9 to 6). Then Sundays were added - noon to 8 or 10 p.m. The weekly total was 82 to 84 hours."
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