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☆ Google's worker firings show that the office actually isn't a place to be yourself
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-20 | by ( Tim Paradis | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

download the appSign up to get the inside scoop on today’s biggest stories in markets, tech, and business — delivered daily. But in the years since the gauzy "whole self" notion became something of an HR cliché, the idea has frayed even further. I can bring my whole self to work, but I can't talk about politics,'" she said. This is where nuance comes into play: Political talk at work can be necessary. Deciding what's politicalStill, Reitz noted that people don't always agree on what's political.

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But unspent COVID aid is a small target, with less than $80 billion unspent as of January, White House budget figures show. CARPENTERS, VETERANS AND MEDICAL RESEARCHReclaiming unspent COVID funds would have real-world repercussions. A clawback could also affect veterans' healthcare, as the Department of Veterans Affairs has yet to spend $4.6 billion of the money it received for COVID-19 related care. Republican governors of Nebraska and Arkansas last year rejected a second round of aid for people behind on their rent. Republican Senator Rick Scott in January urged governors and mayors to voluntarily return that money to help pay down federal debt.

☆ A California man set a new world record after making 2,995 visits to Disneyland, going every single day for more than 8 years
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-26 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Jeff Reitz, 50, made 2,995 consecutive visits to Disneyland between 2012 and 2020. He began his daily trips while he was unemployed to distract himself from job-hunting, per LA Times. Jeff Reitz, 50, from Huntington Beach, California made 2,995 consecutive visits to Disneyland in Anaheim between 2012 and 2020. His achievement was finally enshrined as a world record last week after Guinness World Records created a new category to honor Reitz's Disneyland devotion. That left him just five days shy of his initial goal of 3,000 consecutive visits, per the LA Times.

Prosecutors will need a mountain of evidence to cast Alec Baldwin as a criminally negligent gunman, skeptical defense criminal lawyers said Friday, as Hollywood appeared to rally around the oft-polarizing actor. But prosecutors insist they have FBI lab reports that show Baldwin did fire the fatal round. "Is there some intentional act that placed that live round there that we know nothing about? She urged prosecutors to stop "blaming the victim" and rhetorically asked "how about investigating who put the live round into the gun?" "Nobody is asking who put the live round into the prop gun," tweeted Fisher, best known for her role in "Titanic."

☆ I run a holiday toy drive. Here's how to avoid common mistakes and make the most impact with your donations.
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-16 | by ( Jen Glantz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

McKenna Reitz , 40, is a teacher and motivational speaker who started a toy drive at her Ohio school. 40, is a teacher and motivational speaker who started a toy drive at her Ohio school. So you have to lead with the purpose and goal for your toy drive. Every year, we do a handful of things to help get the word out about our toy drive. As we move into our eighth annual toy drive, my best piece of advice for others is to just go for it and don't feel like you have to start small.

☆ Your boss' 'optimism bubble' can create a workplace disaster — here's how to prevent it
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-20 | by ( Natasha Piñon | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

The boss who insists everything is fine while employees grumble and think the exact opposite. According to leadership expert Megan Reitz, whose research focuses on the way people interact in the workplace, there's one major cause behind the discord, what she calls the "optimism bubble." Simply put, an optimism bubble refers to the tendency of leaders to overestimate how comfortable their employees feel raising concerns at work, as Reitz explained in a September TED Talk. One of the central components of the optimism bubble is a phenomenon Reitz dubs "advantage blindness." Reitz has a straightforward, four-point playbook for helping employers better respond to their workers' concerns around simmering social issues.

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