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The Inspirational Note Apple Gives To New Employees On Their First Day

Chances are you’re probably pretty pumped if you land a job at Apple. But just in case you need an extra kick in the berries, this is the inspirational note waiting for you on your first day of work.


August 17, 2011
Mobile

Google Engineers Are Smarter, Make More Money Than Motorola Counterparts Says WSJ

Here’s a report that’ll raise the hackles of some Motorola employees. According to the Wall Street Journal, Google employees are better fed at work, make more money and are smarter than their Motorola colleagues.


July 22, 2011
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Hyatt Fires Heat Lamps At Striking Hotel Employees

Taking a page from 19th century American robber barons, the managers of a Chicago Hyatt decided to whip together some old-fashioned strike breakin’ fun with the help of 10 large heat lamps, the Tribune reports. USA! USA! USA!


July 2, 2011
Mobile

The Unhappy RIM Employee Emails Keep On Coming

RIM is dying, sure. But what’s a demise without a few good death throes? On the heels of yesterday’s scathing anonymous teardown of the BlackBerry maker – and RIM’s counterpoint – comes a new wave of malcontented employees. BGR’s got more grumblings from the BlackBerry’s underbelly. [BGR]


June 14, 2011
News

Why Apple’s ‘Geniuses’ Feel Dumb

Apple Store employees are supposed to smartly guide your crucial, Apple related life decisions. But now some regret their own choice to take the company’s underpaid retail jobs, and their hipster existential crisis could produce the trendiest union ever.


April 30, 2011
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Google’s Secret Class System

Life in the Googleplex has a fairy tale allure: gourmet food! Ski trips! Giant dessert statues popping up out of nowhere every six months! And if working for the company seems like some alternaworld fantasy dreamscape, well, it kind of is. Just not, it turns out, for everyone.


November 19, 2010
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Burger King Employees Fired For Printing ‘F— You’ On Receipt

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And here I thought Burger King was the classy fast food establishment! Oh wait that’s Wendy’s. Anywho, two California Burger King employees were fired for printing “FUCK YOU” on a customer’s receipt. Watch local reporters take the matter very seriously.


July 2, 2010

Google Adding Pay To Cover Same-Sex Benefits Tax

In a move that will hopefully nudge other companies into following suit, Google is planning to increase the pay of gay and lesbian employees to cover a tax on their benefits that straight employees are exempt from.


May 27, 2010

12th Foxconn Employee Jumps; Became 10th To Die

Despite Foxconn allegedly asking all employees to sign contracts promising not to kill themselves, another worker has jumped out of a building window. This came hours after Foxconn’s CEO was boasting to press of the fabulous facilities at the factories.


April 17, 2010

Palm Bribes Key Employees To Stay As SVP Of Software Jumps Ship

An SEC filing shows that Michael Abbott, Palm’s Senior Vice President of software and services, will be leaving the company this month. The same filing also revealed that several key employees received generous stock packages as incentive to stick around.