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Apparently, Google is so concerned with others keeping it on its toes, it avoids hiring too many of the industry’s leading brains. “I recently had a discussion with an engineer at Google and I pointed out a handful of people that I thought were fruitful in the industry and I proposed that we should hire these people,” Horowitz told today’s conference. “But [the engineer] stopped me and said: ‘These people are actually important to have outside of Google. They’re very Google people that have the right philosophies around these things, and it’s important that we not hire these guys. It’s better for the ecosystem to have an honest industry, as opposed to aggregating all this talent at Google.’

Does writing a blog constitute work? That appears to be the position of the New York State Department of Labor, which recently declared a laid-off attorney ineligible for unemployment benefits because she was bringing in $1.30 a day from blog ads.

— Lawyer’s Unemployment Benefits Yanked Over $1 A Day From Blog - Forbes.com

14 October 2009 • law life work economy

Concerned a brain drain could hurt its long-term ability to compete, Google Inc. is tackling the problem with its typical tool: an algorithm. The Internet search giant recently began crunching data from employee reviews and promotion and pay histories in a mathematical formula Google says can identify which of its 20,000 employees are most likely to quit.

— Google Searches for Staffing Answers - WSJ.com

1 September 2009 • google work

28-year-old Olga was getting ready to close up shop when a man entered the salon armed with a gun … Olga the shop owner and yellow belt in karate knocked him to the floor. She then tied him up with a hair dryer cord. (kinky!) Olga put Viktor in the utility room and told the other employees to go ahead and leave; she would call the police. Did Olga call the police? No, Olga went into the utility room and told Viktor to remove his underpants, or she would call the police. Olga then raped Viktor. For three days. She chained Viktor to a radiator with pink furry handcuffs (kinky!) and fed him Viagra to keep him going.

— Hairdresser Turned A Would Be Robber Into Her Sex Slave

15 April 2009 • work Crime

7 April 2009 • work life

2 April 2009 • economy work holiday girl

2 April 2009 • internet psychology work

Even in the worst of times, for us it’s the breast of times.

— AXED GALS TAKE POLE POSITIONS - New York Post

30 March 2009 • economy work girl

The notion that I the taxpayer have to pay this asshole a million-dollar bonus because he turned down a better job at a less-guilty company is repugnant to begin with; the notion that he stayed at AIGFP because he expected me to pay him this bonus makes me hate him even more.

— AIG Exec Whines About Public Anger, and Now We’re Supposed to Pity Him? Yeah, Right

30 March 2009 • economy work