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Glassdoor CEO: I refuse to work late or on weekends in front of my kids—I'd rather go back to my office
Glassdoor CEO Christian Sutherland-Wong tries not to answer work emails or text messages around his kids. That's a smart practice, researchers say.Business - CNBC - 15 hours ago -
Young people who refuse to work to lose benefits, says minister
Liz Kendall says young people will have a responsibility to take up new opportunities for "earning or learning".Top stories - BBC News - 4 days ago -
'Spa refused me a massage because I have cancer'
Sindy Sidhu is calling for the misinformation around massage treatments for cancer patients to be addressed.Top stories - BBC News - November 16 -
‘I fly, I drive. We’re all complicit’: Richard Flanagan on vanishing species and refusing the Baillie Gifford prize money
The Australian’s book about his parents’ love and his father’s horrific experience of Burma’s Death Railway won the illustrious nonfiction award. Here he talks about finding beauty and hope in the ...World - The Guardian - November 20 -
Ask Shrimsley: Am I a real working person?
So what if you work and you’re a person? In what way is that a qualification?Business - Financial Times - November 1 -
'I was pressured back to work after fiancee's miscarriages'
Firefighter Oliver Dent says he was accused of "putting the service under strain".Top stories - BBC News - November 2 -
Sen. Moore Capito: 'I don’t anticipate a scenario' where GOP refuses to certify results
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said she does not anticipate a scenario in which Senate Republicans refuse to certify the election results but stressed she thinks former President Trump will ...Politics - The Hill - November 3 -
‘I don’t talk about favourites’: Arne Slot refuses to get carried away by title talk
Liverpool head coach says City cannot be written off Leaders face bottom side Southampton on Sunday Arne Slot has said Liverpool will not get carried away with being tagged title favourites ...World - The Guardian - 6 days ago -
‘I’m a mother in turmoil’: My daughter refuses to see me — and she won’t let me see my grandchild. Should I cut her out of our will?
“Our family trust is a couple of decades old and needs revision.”Business - MarketWatch - November 9 -
‘God works in mysterious ways’: I became a Nvidia millionaire playing ‘World of Warcraft.’ Am I smart — or just lucky?
“I had no job and no unemployment benefits.”Business - MarketWatch - November 21 -
‘I felt like I was a made man’: Stephen Graham on working with his childhood heroes
One of Britain’s most prolific actors, Stephen Graham is the face of countless hard-to-forget TV and film characters, a regular Scorsese collaborator and good mates with Leo DiCaprio. He talks ...World - The Guardian - 4 days ago -
I want to find my ‘thing’. How can I work out what I want to do with my life? | Leading questions
Try too hard to find your purpose and you might miss it, writes advice columnist Eleanor Gordon-Smith . But wait too long for it to find you and you could lose out. Read more Leading ...World - The Guardian - November 21 -
I worked on clean energy reform under both Trump and Biden — we cannot go back
The difference between Donald Trump and Kamala Harris when it comes to climate and clean energy policy could not be more stark.Politics - The Hill - October 30 -
You be the judge: should my husband stop smuggling his hip flask into the theatre where I work?
Ellen’s husband Rog loves a crafty swig; she worries he’ll be spotted and embarrass her. Should he put a lid on it or should she enter into the spirit of things? You decide Find out how to get a ...World - The Guardian - November 1 -
Kamala Harris: This morning routine helps me work 15 hours a day—'no matter how little sleep I get'
As the U.S. vice president and a current presidential candidate, Kamala Harris' workdays are lengthy — so she builds them around the same daily morning routine.Business - CNBC - November 2 -
I worked in child protection for 13 years. Aboriginal families know what’s best for our children | Debra Swan
It is not enough for the NSW child protection system to claim it has good policies; we need to see those policies implemented effectively. Our fight for our children is ongoing. I’ve fought for ...World - The Guardian - November 13 -
Are you tired all the time? Me too – but I think I’ve worked out why
Biting back anger, holding in tears: we use a huge amount of energy trying to avoid our emotions. And it’s exhausting. Are you feeling tired?* I’m going to take an educated guess that the answer is ...World - The Guardian - November 18 -
This Group Refuses to Stop Tracking Disinformation
Though a larger coalition of fact checkers has disbanded, a team of students and researchers at the University of Washington in Seattle is still working to document how lies online threaten to ...Business - The New York Times - November 1 -
52-year-old billionaire CEO: I've woken up at 4:30 a.m. to work on vacations—so I can spend the days with family
Billionaire Raising Cane's CEO Todd Graves schedules family time into his calendar to avoid getting lost growing his business — sometimes at the cost of sleep.Business - CNBC - November 15 -
Will Labour’s Plan For Work, Work?
And, COP29 climate talks end with criticised deal.Top stories - BBC News - 4 days ago -
Pennsylvania judge refuses to block Musk's $1M giveaways
A Pennsylvania judge on Monday refused the Philadelphia district attorney’s request to block daily $1 million giveaways from Elon Musk’s pro-Trump super PAC in the lead-up to the election. Judge ...Politics - The Hill - November 4 -
Starmer refuses to condemn Hong Kong crackdown
UK premier said he had ‘frank’ discussions with Xi Jinping at G20 but declined to air criticism publiclyWorld - Financial Times - November 19 -
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Jussie Smollett refuses to speak the truth: Actor's ‘attackers’
In 2021, Smollett was found guilty of five counts of disorderly conduct after it turned out he set up the attack.Politics - The Hill - 5 days ago -
Woman faced travel insurance refusal after US car accident
Jane Rubens' family say they faced accepting her return to the UK or having her insurance cancelled.Top stories - BBC News - 3 days ago -
36-year-old quit 6-figure Wall Street job—now he earns $1,000 an hour working from home as a tutor: 'More fulfilling than I ever could have imagined'
In 2014, Steve Menking quit his job as an equities trader on Wall Street to become a tutor: "I felt called to teach." In 2023, he earned over $500,000.Business - CNBC - 15 hours ago -
With razor thin margins in the election, will Americans still refuse to vote?
The 2024 presidential election is expected to be close, with a recent report describing the margins as "razor thin" in key swing states, and four underutilized techniques are proposed to increase ...Politics - The Hill - November 1 -
Election fact check: County officials can't refuse to certify election results
Local officials are legally required to certify election results -- but the process has become politicized since Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results.Top stories - ABC News - November 3 -
New Canadian councilors refuse to swear allegiance to King Charles
Five newly elected councilors in Dawson City, Canada, have refused to swear a mandatory oath of allegiance to Britain's King Charles III.Top stories - CBS News - November 8 -
Han Dongfang, Once China’s ‘Worst Nightmare,’ Refuses to Back Down
Neither jail nor exile to Hong Kong has stopped Han Dongfang, a former Tiananmen Square protest leader, from championing workers’ rights. “If you’re born stubborn, you go everywhere stubborn.”Top stories - The New York Times - November 10 -
Kidnappers took his staff, then his son. But this Haiti doctor is refusing to flee
Dr Jean William ‘Bill’ Pape runs free health services and says people’s needs cannot wait for an end to the gang warfare that is tearing the country apart. Years of gang warfare have shuttered ...World - The Guardian - November 15 -
Protesters in Georgia's separatist Abkhazia region refuse to cede control of government buildings
Opposition protesters in Georgia's breakaway province of Abkhazia have refused to cede control of key government buildings seized during rallies on Friday during which at least 14 people were ...World - ABC News - November 16 -
Whoopi Goldberg claims bakery refused her service due to her politics
“The View" co-host Whoopi Goldberg implied that a Staten Island bakery refused to take her order because of her liberal politics. The bakery denied the accusation and claimed they were having ...Top stories - NBC News - November 17 -
The IRS refuses COVID claims, leaving small businesses in limbo
The IRS has delayed processing of properly submitted ERTC claims, leaving small businesses in the dark and owed over $100 billion, while the Biden administration has not addressed the wider issue ...Politics - The Hill - November 20 -
Standoff as Canada Yukon town council refuses to swear oath to King Charles
Council in Yukon territory deadlocked, citing the crown’s tarnished relations with Indigenous peoples in the region. The council of a town in Canada’s Yukon territory has been locked for weeks in ...World - The Guardian - November 20
