Writing on the Wall: Marine Faces Firing Over Facebook Post
A nine-year Marine veteran who served in Iraq faces a less-than-honorable discharge along with loss of his security clearance and veteran’s benefits — all for some Facebook posts.
A Marine Corps administrative board has recommended that Sgt. Gary Stein’s anti-Obama Facebook posts violate Marine rules that forbid getting involved in politics and disparaging the president.
“I believe it was more based on personal opinion on the three members than it was based on the legalities of the case,” Stein told CNN. Continue reading…
Office Investigation Reveals That IT Guy Is Also “I Pee” Guy
Employees are relieved at Farm Bureau Financial Services, now that their co-worker will no longer be relieving himself on their office chairs.
Female workers at the West Des Moines, Iowa company had been noticing strange stains on their chairs since October 2011, but it wasn’t until a video surveillance system was installed in the office that the company figured out just what was going on. Continue reading…
Looking For an Ad Job? Try the Restroom Stalls
A bathroom stall hardly seems like a good place for an introduction when you’re trying to break into the Madison Avenue advertising world, but two aspiring admen have done just that by sneaking their portfolio into the bathrooms of some of New York’s biggest advertising firms. Continue reading…
Green Jobs
Drive a Bus, Build Houses, or Work in an Aluminum Foundry? You May Have a Green Job
The Labor Department’s Bureau of Labor Statistics has released its first Green Goods and Services Summary, which tracks the number of green jobs in the U.S., where they are located, and what they pay.
The report found that 3.1 million American workers had green jobs in 2010. That accounted for 2.4 percent of the national workforce that year. Continue reading…
For “Jersey Shore’s” Snookie and The Situation, Partying May No Longer Pay
Imagine losing work because you can’t party like you used to. That’s just what’s happened to two of America’s best-known spring breakers.
Sources tell gossip website TMZ that Nicole “Snookie” Polizzi and Mike “The Situation” Sorrentino will see their “Jersey Shore” roles cut back in light of Snookie’s pregnancy and The Situation’s entry into a drug rehabilitation facility for addiction to prescription medication. Continue reading…
Study: Manufacturing Jobs to Return to U.S.
A surge in productivity in the U.S. along with rising wages in China means that the America could be poised by 2015 to add up to 3 million jobs in factories and other manufacturing-related businesses.
A recent study conducted by The Boston Consulting Group found that Chinese factory workers receive 15 to 20 percent pay increases each year. Those increases, along with a weak dollar, are diminishing the benefit of doing business overseas. Continue reading…
With Contracts in Place, “Hunger Games” Stars Won’t Earn Big Bucks for Sequels
With all of the hype surrounding the release of “The Hunger Games” on March 23, it’s not hard to imagine that the movie’s stars will soon join the red-carpet ranks of Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Kristen Stewart, and Robert Pattinson.
The only thing is, if Josh Hutcherson Jennifer Lawrence, and Liam Hemsworth do burst forth as Hollywood’s newest A-listers, they’ll still be earning a pauper’s pay compared to their contemporaries if the Lionsgate Entertainment Corp. decides to make films out of Suzanne Collins’ sequels to the book, “Catching Fire” and “Mockingjay.” Continue reading…
Entry-Level College Graduates’ Average Income Down since 2000
Conventional wisdom has always held that a college education pays for itself through increased wages throughout graduates’ careers. That wisdom has lost some of its luster in the past few years, as new college graduates find that they are being paid less than graduates of ten years ago.
That’s according to a new study by the Economic Policy Institute, a non-profit think tank that focuses on how economic policy affects low- and middle-income workers.
“From 2000 to 2011, a period of disappointing overall wage growth, wages actually fell among every entry-level group,” the study found. College-educated men have seen their wages fall by 7.6 percent, while women have lost 6 percent. Continue reading…
Economy Adds Jobs in February, Unemployment Rate Flat
The unemployment rate held steady in February at 8.3 percent, ending a six-month slide despite the addition of 227,000 non-farm jobs. February was the third straight month that the economy has added 200,000 or more jobs.
“We’ve had 24 straight months of private sector job growth, adding more than 3.9 million jobs to an economy that was bleeding almost 800,000 jobs in a single month in late 2008”, Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis said. “U.S. job growth over the last six months has been the strongest since before the recession began in 2006.” Continue reading…
Economists Dispute Apple’s Jobs Creation Claims
Apple Inc., maker of the iPhone, iPad, and iBook, claims in a study released last week that it has created 514,000 jobs in the U.S. That includes people working directly for the company and those who work for Apple suppliers and partners. Economists are now questioning the validity of that claim.
“My own research suggests that for each additional job in the average high-tech firm, five additional jobs are created outside that firm in the local community,” Enrico Moretti, an economist at University of California, Berkeley, told National Public Radio. Continue reading…