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	<title>Toxic Employment</title>
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	<link>http://toxicemployment.com</link>
	<description>When work is making you sick &#38; tired of being sick &#38; tired; Outrage at workplace disfunctionality &#38; inefficiency</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Mass Exodus Because of Rumors</title>
		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/05/08/mass-exodus-because-of-rumors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 19:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Fired]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[business]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended a webinar hosted by Drake Beam Morin on communications strategy  for reduction in forces (RIFs) and learned an interesting fact.  The host said that a layoff of 1% of the company&#8217;s employee population may result in up to a 33% turnover rate, if handled inappropriately.  This is largerly due to the lack [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Work Issues Beats Death Anyday</title>
		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/03/04/work-issues-beats-death-anyday/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:23:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[death]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[randy pausch]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A colleague of mine forwarded me one of the most popular videos that is flying around the internet about a professor at Carnegie Mellon named, Randy Pausch, who has terminal cancer and has been given only months to live.  A married, father of three, he gave his final lecture at CM, which has been downloaded over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Vant Chore Blood! And I&#8217;ll Pay You For Time From Work. . .</title>
		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/27/i-vant-chore-blood-and-ill-pay-you-for-time-from-work/</link>
		<comments>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/27/i-vant-chore-blood-and-ill-pay-you-for-time-from-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 03:28:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[employment law]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[paid time off]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[giving blood]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[So how cool is this?  I read in this blog that in December 2007, New York has required that employers allow paid time off for employees who work more than 20 hours a week to give blood. 
I know that at Microsoft, the company encourages giving blood at any time, including work hours.  Are there other companies [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Puff, Puff, Pass. . What? I can&#8217;t smoke pot at work?</title>
		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/25/puff-puff-pass-what-i-cant-smoke-pot-at-work/</link>
		<comments>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/25/puff-puff-pass-what-i-cant-smoke-pot-at-work/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 01:28:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Fired]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[termination]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[work]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[lawsuits]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[marijuana]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[fired]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[disability]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[wrongful termination]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The California Supreme Court has ruled that an employer may terminate an employee for using marijuana for medical purposes.  In Ross v. RagingWire Telecommunications, Inc. the employee, Gary Ross, suffered from strain and muscle spasms in his back due to his service in the U.S. Air Force.  The employer, RagingWire, offered Mr. Ross a job, but required him [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A lonely world for me</title>
		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/24/a-lonely-world-for-me/</link>
		<comments>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/24/a-lonely-world-for-me/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Feb 2008 01:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[relationships]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[rant]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[On this Sunday, I find myself in need of a personal rant and since it is my blog, I can do just that, right?  I must admit that I am perplexed about something. 
Throughout my entire career, I&#8217;ve been known and sought out as the &#8220;answer gal.&#8221;  The one who has insights and advice about whatever messed up [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Our soldiers may get fired, but their families are now allowed to go broke caring for them</title>
		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/22/our-soldiers-may-get-fired-but-their-families-are-now-allowed-to-go-broke-caring-for-them/</link>
		<comments>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/22/our-soldiers-may-get-fired-but-their-families-are-now-allowed-to-go-broke-caring-for-them/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[paid time off]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is part two of my previous post on the the raw deal many military families are receiving.  I found this report by Sheppard Mullen on how the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was amended to protect military families.
Long story short, the act was amended to allow an employee to take up to 26 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Welcome Home Soldiers!  By the way, you&#8217;re fired.</title>
		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/20/welcome-home-soldiers-by-the-way-youre-fired/</link>
		<comments>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/20/welcome-home-soldiers-by-the-way-youre-fired/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 20 Feb 2008 14:54:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Getting Fired]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[discrimination]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[loss job]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[termination]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[military]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In all reality, many of our soldiers returning home from overseas assignments have difficulties transitoning to both home and professional life.  On top of it, many soldiers are returning to find themselves receiving a pink slip from their former employer or their business gone down the tubes if they are an entrepreneur/small business owner.  Your Business on MSNBC recently [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Homeless&#8217; Palaces</title>
		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/18/the-homeless-palaces/</link>
		<comments>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/18/the-homeless-palaces/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[homeless]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[foreclosure]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[foreclosed homes]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[As I was catching up on today&#8217;s news, MSNBC has an interesting story on how many of the homeless are squatting in recently foreclosed homes which are not yet boarded up because many still have the lights &#38; water running.  In fact, there are quite a few homeless who prefer scouting out these properties over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hate your job?  Count your blessings.</title>
		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/17/hate-your-job-count-your-blessings/</link>
		<comments>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/17/hate-your-job-count-your-blessings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Feb 2008 01:03:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I came across a short, but interesting  post today from a guy named Joe who talks about how people who bellyache about their jobs should remind themselves of the thousands and thousands of people who are unemployed and would trade places with them in a hot second.
The post kind of touched my heart because I currently [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/11/13/</link>
		<comments>http://toxicemployment.com/2008/02/11/13/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 16:55:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>transition guru</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was in London last week, attending a global team off-site with some of my colleagues at Microsoft.  This was my first trip to London, and as an African American, I was surprised how diverse the city was.
But I must say that the job doldrums that exist in the US also exist &#8220;across the pond&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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