Friend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a friend who told me about it as she was living through it, week by week. She found this internship through the university’s job placement office, tied to a training program: evening classes on top of university classes and an eight-hour workday, eight to […]
READ MOREFriend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This one I heard from a former coworker at an old job. One time the company approved an unusually large budget increase, and someone had to design a full investment project to put it to use. From scratch. From the title page, literally. It had to be […]
READ MOREFriend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a friend, all because of a hiring mistake nobody at the company wanted to own up to. At the time it was rough, today he tells it as a story so ridiculous that people barely believe he actually lived through it. They say first […]
READ MOREFriend, Wake Up: You’re Not Inheriting the Company This happened to a neighbor’s daughter, all because she didn’t check the contract’s fine print in time, although it would have been of little use to her. I ran into her on the bus one day, on my way home. She had a face like thunder, so […]
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