Friend, 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 […]
READ MOREFriend, 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 happened to a friend’s cousin: She landed her first tech internship full of excitement. Fresh out of university, no real experience in an office like that, but determined to prove she deserved to stay. One summer Monday she got a desk and a laptop. And that’s […]
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 […]
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