If you need another reminder that venting about your boss or workplace on social media is not a great idea, this guy, who was fired because of a tweet, is an example for you. Twenty-seven-year-old Hussein Mehaidli, reportedly claims he was fired after complaining about his company’s Christmas gift on Twitter. The gift was a …
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Should you include hobbies in your resume? The answer is yes. Here’s what to include and what not to. What hobbies should you include on your resume? Should you include hobbies at all? What about hobbies that are unrelated to the job for which you’re applying, like fishing or travel? Let’s look at hobbies and …
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This is bad networking advice but you hear it from “experts” all the time. Happy New Year! Have you made a resolution to get out there and start networking? Meet new people? Expand your pool of connections? This is great. Making new friends is always a great idea. The world is a networking opportunity By …
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If you live in Toronto, you might be familiar with this scene: You get on a TTC (Toronto Transit Commission) bus or streetcar. It’s insanely packed up front, but you think “Hey, I wonder if there’s more room further back…” so you start muttering “excuse me…pardon me…can I just…thanks…excuse me…” and squeezing your way through …
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Have you ever wondered if your Uber driver has reached into your order and tasted your food? Of course you haven’t, because what kind of gross person would do that? Well guess what… you know where I’m going with this, right? 28% of food delivery drivers have taken food from an order It turns out …
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Everyone wants to live a long and healthy life. I wanted to help you do that so I gathered information and research results from scientific studies all over the internet to find what you should do to live a life free from heart disease, cancer, and other illnesses that will kill you. Here’s what I …
Polish historian and political scientist Jerzy Targalski was being interviewed by a Dutch news program when his cat decided that Targalski’s ears looked super dirty and needed to be cleaned right then and there. So, he climbed on the guy and started washing his ears. Targalski did what any true professional would do and just …
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Angry people aren’t as smart as they think they are. These are the findings of a recent study with the title “Why do angry people overestimate their intelligence? Neuroticism as a suppressor of the association between Trait-Anger and subjectively assessed intelligence,” (I am clearly not too smart because that title totally confuses me) and published …
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Facebook wants to monitor your facial expressions with forward facing cameras, watch you sleep, and monitor your weekly routine. These describe just two of the “thousands” of patent applications filed by the social media company since it went public in 2012. Surprised? Of course you’re not. Creeped out? Of course you are. The New York …
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Your moral outrage isn’t fooling anyone but yourself. At least not anymore. Recently conducted research suggests that, as many of us have suspected all along, moral outrage expressed on behalf of the victim of perceived third party transgressions is often self serving. I’m pretty sure there are many ways in which this could be so …
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