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Britain is no longer a nation of shopkeepers, but it is divided by the work we do

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Other popular occupations here (at double the UK average) include biological scientists, computer system and equipment installers and servicers, medical secretaries, and train and tram drivers. Around 35 out of every 10,000 employees in this region are employed in this role, over twice the UK average. times the UK average).

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I want to skip my office’s day at the beach, I shared an employee’s paycheck on Facebook, and more

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And yes, there are certainly employers with total salary transparency, where everyone knows what everyone else makes, or government agencies where salary is public record — but I’m assuming that’s not the case here. People keep interrupting my work to ask for directions. I am a prospect researcher for a large university.

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my job’s travel conflicts with husband’s job, talking to my boss about imposter syndrome, and more

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For me, he sat behind me for about 30 minutes while I worked at my computer (I think he was on his phone the whole time) and then followed me to another section of campus where I did some semi-manual work. In some cases it could even be helpful to sit at someone’s computer with them and talk through how they were handling particular tasks.

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should I stop bringing coffee to my boyfriend/coworker, I don’t want to show up for my last day of work, and more

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At this point, all I want to do is leave my computer and equipment with IT the night before my last day and slip out. However, because it was a government facility, I needed a badge to get in and they had taken it. Can you either put them in the mail this week or can we set up a time for me to come pick them up?”.

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The Internet and a pile of turtles that goes all the way down

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Turing is rightly seen as one of the great pioneers of computer science but he has (admittedly belatedly) built this reputation as part of a lineage of great thinkers about our relationship with information. His solution was a mail order system known as the Mundaneum which was essentially Google by post.

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the Hanukkah balls, the swingers, and other tales of holiday woes

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“In my mid-20s, I worked in a fairly conservative accounting department (think government contractor engineering firm) but we had a couple of strange characters. My roommate, a fellow teacher, mailed hers to her mother. She said they were Hanukkah balls.”. The swingers. All female staff – married and single – received this book.

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