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My top three worst and best things about working at Dollar General

Hello everyone, I am getting ready to move to a new job at a grocery store as a overnight stocker. However, I am leaving Dollar General, a store I have been employed at for almost a year. In that year I have seen and...
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How do you think a person's relationship with money influences their happiness and life choices

A person's relationship with money can significantly shape their happiness and the choices they make in life. For some, money is seen as a means to security and comfort, providing the freedom to pursue passions, hobbies,...
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Signs you’re about to be fired

Employers many times don’t want to pay unemployment as well as want time to find someone to replace you. So they will try to push people out the door so they don’t have to. There are many reasons why a employer would...
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A (Belated) Graduation Speech and Other Important Lessons

To the class of...well, whatever year you’re reading this, I’ll begin by first saying “Congratulations”. Then “Good luck”. I’d like to share some things about my life and experience since I graduated from college. In...
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Understanding Workplace Politics: Dealing With Managers

I know this segment has been a long time coming as I promised it at the end of our last part of the series, but as you know life can get in the way sometimes. So here are some things to know about management that some of...
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Life Tips: So You've Graduated and You're Going Off To College... What Next?

So you've just graduated high school, congratulations! Now you're on your way this summer or in the fall to college/university and you're maybe really excited or really nervous (or both) and you don't know what to do or...
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Title: Nurturing Young Minds: The Scientific Approach to Childhood Development

Introduction: The journey of childhood development is a fascinating intersection of biology, psychology, and environment. As parents and caregivers, understanding the scientific principles behind nurturing young minds...
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Understanding Workplace Politics: HR Is Not Your Friend

Here is part 3 in our series on understanding workplace politics. The dreaded entity that is HR. As I wrote in an older take for men on the job Advice for Guys: Avoiding A Sexual Harassment Case , one of the biggest...
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Understanding Workplace Politics: The Myth of "Hard Work" Advancing You

Welcome to part 2 in our series of workplace politics. This Take will profile the notorious myth that hard work gets you up the ladder, and how so many good employees get frustrated by the fruits of their labor not...
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Understanding Workplace Politics

This is the first part in a new series of Takes I will be posting about the employment world. A lot of what I’m covering is just too long for one post, so I will be going over them in individual parts. Although everyone...
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Schools exist to train you for slavery

The modern school system began in Prussia, Germany. As a means of taking kids away from their parents and keeping them in a group dynamic with rigorous discipline involved. (Good. Nothing wrong with that.) Homeschooling...
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When the nights are less warm than historical average of nights, explaining how.

when we look at the daily fluctuating temperature, we see the days are consistently hotter than night and equally nights are consistently cooler than day. simply d>n therefore n<d. we can predict that the sun adds...
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Betrayal in the Workplace

HR called me into their office to talk about my co-worker on my management team. She was telling me she was doing a poor job due to some recent incidents and they were thinking of letting her go. They wanted my opinion as...
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Thirty Days later: The Work at-home experience so far.

This week I marked my one-month milestone of working from home. After four weeks of training classes and one week of hybrid phone and classroom time, I am now a full employee of Hyatt. I have learned a lot in my four...
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10 Ways To Be More Organized

1. Write things down In my opinion, this is one of the best ways to be more organized. Write down anything you don't want to forget, and write down things you need to do. I prefer to write things down in my notes app on...
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My Work From Home Journey, my first week so far.

I recently got hired for a remote working position for an International Hotel and Resort chain. My job is I take reservations for this particular chain of hotels. I have officially been on the job for just over a week in...
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Very simple proofs that Calculus and Differentials do not work in reality, but at best work only in abstract frameworks

Infinite Number Fallacy There is only one infinite entity in reality, and that is The True Creator, The First Cause. Everything else is provably FINITE. You cannot empirically PROVE that any number in mathematics is truly...
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My concerns about honors awards in online universities

This is my third quarter enrolling in college. During the last two quarters, I passed all my classes with over 100% grades. Thus earned two Presidents Awards, being chosen for the university honors program, and I joined...
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How To Study More Productively

Introduction Hello everyone! This is your writer @Apulu_Imback and today, I have bought you an informative mytake after so long. This mytake is directed more towards students however working adults may also find it...
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Estimating Sustained Winds via Horizontal Rainfall

Many people over-estimate winds. For example, when the wind is a 60mph GUST they may incorrectly think they are observing "100mph winds" or when the wind is 100mph, they may incorrectly think they are observing 200mph...
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