Work Life

JUNE 21, 2025

She told me she only took the job because she was nearly homeless and needed to put food on the table. When I interviewed people and asked them when they most felt that they mattered, people frequently mentioned some version of these five words being said to them: “If it wasn’t for you …” Think of someone you rely on.

Cleaning

Vantage Circle

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Regular pulse surveys, exit interviews, and annual engagement surveys deliver insights into employee sentiments, motivations, and challenges. Apart from being an active and keen writer, she is generally found reading books and articles, feasting her eyes on food videos, and binging on her favorite shows and discussing them.

Retail

Mad in America

APRIL 9, 2025

Listen to the audio of the interview here. I am already responsible in the world, and the fact that I wear clothes, eat food, and am a part of this life means that I’m affecting other people. You go to an underserved, under-resourced area and find corner markets with almost entirely processed foods.

Interviewing

Success

JANUARY 6, 2025

In his oft-cited 1998 Harvard Business Review article What Makes a Leader, Goleman refers to a study showing that within a global food and beverage company, business divisions led by leaders with a critical mass of emotional intelligence capabilities outperformed yearly earnings goals by 20%. How did you handle it? How did the person respond?

Interviewing

Mad in America

MARCH 26, 2025

Before we begin, I’d like to take a few moments and explain the context of this interview. Listen to the audio of the interview here. Its like if we go to a restaurant, we bring our food, we go to the kitchen, we cook the food, we bring it to our table, we eat it, and we pay the bill. Giovanni Fava: Thank you.

Interviewing

Vantage Circle

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Quantitative and Qualitative Data: Make sure to collect both quantitative data through metrics like productivity, turnover, etc, and qualitative feedback through employee surveys, exit interviews, etc, and get a complete picture of engagement’s impact. This article is written by Riha Jaishi , a Content Writer at Vantage Circle.

Prioritization

Success

MAY 26, 2025

Run your surveys, do your interviews and keep an eye on trends using tools like Google Trends (which well still mention later in this article). Need to know the size of the pet food market or how many Gen Z-ers shop online? Gather Your Data Next, its time to roll up your sleeves and collect data.

Problem-Solving

Mad in America

APRIL 10, 2025

Every time I disclosed my disability while applying for a job, I wasnt even invited for an interview, including at the university where I was already working for years, can you imagine??? Its very tough to live when you arent sure you will be able to buy food the next month.

Government

Mad in America

JULY 9, 2025

Listen to the audio of the interview here. As a kid, I was emotional, reactive, constantly moving, and sensitive to everything—foods, fabrics, and smells. Today, he joins us on the Mad In America podcast to talk about his experience with Lyrica and Zyprexa, including a five-and-a-half-year taper after 10 years on the drugs.

Cleaning

Success

AUGUST 5, 2025

After weeks of searching, applying and interviewing, you finally got the job offer you were hoping for. For example, when you ask the interviewer a question and they provide a vague answer, leading you to believe there’s a lot more under the surface, this is a volcano answer, Mann explains. Ask, “‘What does that mean?

Interviewing

Mad in America

MARCH 28, 2025

Outpatient Treatment Agreement Jasmine Marshall Last Update: 10/4/21 Current treatment expectations: Jasmine will complete a minimum of three meals per day including three food groups, as reviewed with [Dieticians name]. I stayed on the phone with them for about an hour, to do a phone interview with them.

Controlling

Great Place to Work

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Wegmans Grocer Wegmans Food Markets has set out five core values: 1. Here are some concrete ways you can incorporate your core values into your companys everyday operations: Hiring: Integrate your core values into the full recruitment process, including job descriptions, interview questions, and onboarding.

Teamwork

Work Life

JULY 7, 2025

Discovery goes beyond customer interviews. Discovery goes beyond customer interviews.” Founders come from all walks of life—women and men, people of color, from around the globe—building everything from enterprise software to food products to mission-driven consumer brands. There are many types of founder stories.

Coaching

Mad in America

APRIL 25, 2025

A seasoned psychiatrist interviewed me, a woman with short, dark, puffy hair and a stern demeanor. The food was nearly inedible, a far cry from the brie and baguettes of Paris. Restricted confines, poor food, and authoritarian staff made the reality of my situation undeniable. Overpowered, I was dragged back inside.

Problem-Solving

Mad in America

MARCH 6, 2025

However, like the survey in 1921, this one did not involve interviews with either patients or their families. The hospital operated a farm with patient labor so that it could spend relatively little cash for food products. Both OSH and Eastern Oregon State Hospital were visited.

Reporting

Ask a Manager

JUNE 18, 2025

So not only are they constantly starving, they need much less food. Poverty and food insecurity are two of the leading causes of obesity. Just that on its own is awful but it’s even crueler than that. Not only are they desperately hungry all the time, they burn much, much fewer calories than a ”normal” person.

Food

Mad in America

MAY 24, 2025

Brown, in an article, A Patients Memories and Recent Interview of her Doctor, described her first look at the tunnels shortly after her admission to Oregon State Hospital. The food was often cold. As a result, mealtimes were some of the least pleasant times of the day, rather than time for enjoying food and socializing.

Food

Success

JULY 25, 2025

Polish resumes, run mock interviews and give actionable advice. Startup: Grab a decent outfit and some bus fare ($0–$100 tops) What you need: Charm, the ability to not look awkward at random family gatherings and a genuine appreciation for free food. You’ll need to cover ingredients and maybe snap some food pics.

Small Business

Mad in America

APRIL 11, 2025

I could not eat food. I remembered an interview with Dr. Stuart Shipko on Mad in America. In the interview he said he would not open taper centers because too many people could not come off antidepressants. It worked for one week and then the akathisia hit with a vengeance. I felt like I was shaking inside.

Pharmaceutical

Mad in America

APRIL 23, 2025

Editor’s note: This is an interview conducted by Tiago Pires Marques, editor of Mad in Portugal. The interview was initially conducted on February 27, 2017, and then updated recently for publication on Mad in Portugal. The interview is an abbreviated version of the interview published in Mad in Portugal (1).

Interviewing

Success

JULY 2, 2025

The food I brought was terrible. Hill says she met one part-time van lifer who rented a van and then went to a local store to purchase “a mini fridge, a bed frame, a mattress, a little plastic dresser, some food and water, and she was ready to go,” says Hill. On her first trip, she ran into a few problems, but they didn’t deter her. “My

Purchasing

Ask a Manager

JUNE 18, 2025

In reply to Calamity Janine. That’s a really, really good point! If they sincerely feel the employee is hurting themselves, the solution is to ensure they can access healthcare! Remind them of the EAP, increase access to mental health care, reduce insurance premiums…

Food

Ask a Manager

JUNE 18, 2025

In reply to Summary ftw. If your resume format is more difficult to understand, many HMs will just dump it in the trash rather than take extra time and effort. You want to make it easier for them to see what you bring, not make them think from the start that you are difficult.

Food

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 5, 2025

To be clear, I always start off meals by sharing that it is an opportunity for them to get to know us in an informal manner, that it’s still part of the interview, but the priority is that they can feel comfortable and be able to eat an actual meal rather than pick at food in between questions.

Interviewing

Work Life

JUNE 16, 2025

You can decide for yourselves: Modern CEO will deliver a few extra dispatches from the event this week with insights and takeaways from panels, interviews—and maybe a few parties. Should CEOs outside the media and tech ecosystem make the trip to Cannes?

Creativity

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JUNE 18, 2025

“Free money” is like free food: some people will take the absolute maximum for themselves every time, e.g. that letter from a receptionist where the employer gave everyone up to $20 to order in lunch. In reply to Free Meerkats. She said her coworkers always used the maximum $20 and didn’t tip the drivers.

Food

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JUNE 18, 2025

In reply to Summary ftw. This is interesting because I really don’t think this is an adversarial relationship.

Food

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JUNE 18, 2025

In reply to bamcheeks. Yup as a fat person it seems most people including me have had the thought that there is an arbitrary number (300 400 500, riding a scooter, waddling, etc) where the weight goes from cubby to a Big Deal and now must be dealt with.

Food

Success

JULY 6, 2025

As the co-founder of WON Group , Kuzma has carefully built a diverse portfolio that spans fashion, sports, food and consumer goods, prioritizing innovation, authenticity and long-term impact. This interview has been edited for length and clarity. But his ambitions reach far beyond basketball.

Influencing

Ask a Manager

JUNE 18, 2025

Aside from the inappropriateness of police your employees food I’d be pretty pissed if the boss suddenly decided we could no longer receive a long time perk for apparently no reason.

Food

Ask a Manager

JUNE 18, 2025

In fact, if I was one of the businesses asked to no longer bring food for that reason, I would be avoiding your business in future. Also horrified by smug, horrible, ignorant LW1. And wanting to add that if I worked anywhere that treated my colleagues like this, I would be jobhunting. Your cruelty is visible.

Food

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JUNE 18, 2025

I’m imagining OP #1 must shove food into the faces of folks who are perceived to be too skinny. Can we please stop judging people’s health based on how they look? I wonder how op is so sure the employee is overweight because of life choices and not a medical condition.

Food

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JUNE 18, 2025

In reply to Free Meerkats. Outside the US (I know OP is in the US) per diems can be tricky from a tax perspective. I used to work for an organisation that used per diems for travel, which is unusual in the UK. The tax authorities got wind of it decided to audit the organisation to find out if the per diem amount represented a genuine amount.

Food

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JUNE 18, 2025

In reply to Summary ftw. I mean, yeah, you can frame it that way if you want — if you have one job available and twenty candidates, it is as much about rejecting the wrong nineteen as it is about identifying the best candidate for that role. You can’t not do that, even if you do it by lottery!

Food

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JUNE 18, 2025

In reply to Margaret. Many counties and municipalities in Sweden actually forbid employees from smoking at work, period, even if they were to go on a walk on their break and smoke then. And schools and all school activities are smoking-free for everyone, including teachers.

Food

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 5, 2025

this was a common thing for medical students interviewing for residency positions – lunch with the current residents I don’t know what kind of impression I made on them. In reply to Career regulator.

Interviewing

Ask a Manager

JUNE 18, 2025

Because it helps you to make a decision about whether that candidate is someone you’d like to find out more about by interviewing them.

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