‘Things male co-workers actually said’
IF YOU don’t believe women are treated differently to men in the workplace, Cate Burlington has news for you. Men have really said these things to her.
At Work
This woman has a radical plan
WHAT’S one way that could solve the growing wage gap between men and women? CEO Ellen Pao thinks she has the answer in banning salary negotiations.
Random employee sits down with Obama
TALK about a lucky day. A low-level employee got a last minute call-up to go to a meeting and ended up across the table from President Obama.
‘You’ve lost your job … LOL’
IT was one of the cruellest April Fool’s Day office pranks around but the distressed victims have been told it’s their fault they didn’t see the funny side.
The words we all need to stop using
YOU know the ones — the words that mark us out as robots from another planet. Let’s all agree to a collective exorcism now.
How to beat the mountain of emails in your inbox
AFTER a nice long weekend, it’s time to make a fresh start. Here’s how to stop stressing at work, even when you have 1000 emails waiting for your attention.
Man sacked for being ‘too nice’
SOMETIMES, nice guys do finish last. This man was fired for going above and beyond what was expected of him. But management wasn’t happy.
Brutally bashed for doing his job
A COUNCIL parking inspector was brutally bashed in broad daylight by a thug driving a green Commodore. Now police are on the hunt.
Bus driver is a ‘complete idiot’
A NEW Zealand bus driver has been caught on camera and labelled a “complete idiot” by his boss. Watch what happened.
Watch two minutes of awful puns
“DID you hear about that new broom that came out? It’s sweeping the nation.” Watch this office worker unleash two minutes of awesomely bad puns.
The woman standing up for millions of Aussies
JESSICA May used to be an executive with 17 staff and a billion-dollar program. Then everything changed. Now she’s standing up for millions of Aussies.
Restaurant owes 11 workers $3.43 million
A RESTAURANT has been ordered to pay 11 workers $3.43 million after a judge found the owner and managers had violated the workers’ rights.
The secret to productivity
DO YOU feel paralysed by procrastination? Constantly distracted? Surrounded by too many post-it notes and to-do lists? Try these tips. They work.
Worker tells of coffee horror
CONTENT WARNING: You won’t believe what this woman found in her coffee at work. It will change how you look at your cuppa forever.
‘There’s something in my head trying to eat it’
THEY are not legally old enough to even buy a packet of cigarettes, yet workers as young as 12 are being slowly poisoned by nicotine. They don’t even smoke.
Confessions of a brothel buster
HE’S IN his 60s, divorced, and gets paid to have sex at massage parlours. Here’s the outrageous part – you might be footing the bill.
Single women face cashless retirement
AUSTRALIAN women without a partner or husband come retirement time will face tough financial challenges, experts warn.
Changes to 457 visas announced
THE federal government has announced a raft of changes to the 457 skilled migrant workers program.
‘What I wish I knew at 21’
WHEN you’re 21, you’re inexperienced and prone to mistakes. Here are lessons we should’ve learnt and some you’re never too old to pick up.
Welcome to the elite $100K-a-month club
$100K in the first month. $1.5 million in a brief career. These are the Aussies shunning full-time jobs to make a handsome living from online poker — and here is how they do it.
Victorian couple worked for nothing
A COUPLE who worked in Indian restaurants in country Victoria were paid no wages for a year, despite being promised $1600 a week.
Abbott’s ‘patronising’ St Pat’s message
IT’S Tony Abbott as you haven’t seen him in a really long time — wearing a tie that’s not blue. And offending a group of people which isn’t as unusual.
The dirty secret behind your clothes
GROPING, sexual harassment and pressure to have abortions. These are the dirty secrets sewn into some of our favourite big brand clothing. And we are literally wearing the blame.
‘He asked me to take photos of him naked’
SYDNEY woman Alexandra Tselios, 32, bravely reveals her horror at being propositioned for sex by her male boss, and what she learnt by speaking up.
‘I’m a little bit scared I’ll lose my job’
ASHLEIGH Witt’s only crime was to be a young woman. Now she’s worried she might lose her job for exposing the dark secret haunting her profession.
‘I don’t accept male Indian students’
A UNIVERSITY professor has come under fire for allegedly refusing an internship to a male Indian student due to the “rape problem in India”.
Country working itself to death
NEXT time you leave the office late, spare a thought for these workers who do 80-hour weeks, all year round. They’re literally working themselves to death.
What’s driving us crazy at work
BRISBANE employees have opened up about their biggest sources of stress in the workplace.
‘Sorry to all the mums I worked with’
KATHARINE Zaleski once decided not to partner with a woman because of “the endless photos of her small children” on her desk. But all that changed when she became a mother.
The man who answers the ungoogleable
RANDALL Munroe whiles away his days finding answers to absurd, ungoogleable questions and, in the process, has become nerd royalty.
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