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Taco Bell Receives Amazing Application

Taco Bell Receives Amazing Application

A sense of humor can serve you well in many situations. A job application, however, may not be one of them. That apparently did not deter one prospective Taco Bell employee when filling out his application -- and his application immediately prompted a debate online as to what his true motive was. According to...

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Media Magnate Jann Wenner Puts His 22-Year-Old Son, Gus, In Charge

Media Magnate Jann Wenner Puts His 22-Year-Old Son, Gus, In Charge

No one is surprised when the boss helps his young son get a position at his office. But most execs wouldn't dare suggest that their 22-year old be put in the top slot at their firm, if only because of the ridicule that would surely follow. But most execs aren't Jann Wenner, the legendary founder and mercurial...

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Fired News Anchor A.J. Clemente Back On The Job -- As A Bartender

Fired News Anchor A.J. Clemente Back On The Job -- As A Bartender

The news anchor who dropped the expletives heard around the Web is back to work. Just not at the kind of position he might have hoped. A.J. Clemente, 24, was fired in late April after saying the words, ""F---ing sh-t," on live television. It was his first day at work at NBC affiliate KFYR in Bismarck, N.D. Now...

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Amy's Baking Company Has Epic Facebook Fail

Amy's Baking Company Has Epic Facebook Fail

A Scottsdale, Ariz., pizzeria made TV history Friday, when Gordon Ramsay walked off an episode of "Kitchen Nightmares" for the first time. But that was just the start of the bad press for Amy's Baking Company, after the restaurant's social media accounts blew up with salty language that would make even Ramsay...

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BBC Host Paula White Pulled Off Air After Sounding Drunk

BBC Host Paula White Pulled Off Air After Sounding Drunk

On the last day of a job, plenty of people will throw back a few drinks with co-workers when the shift is over. But this is a riskier proposition in certain professions -- such as an announcer on live radio. Paula White, a presenter on BBC Radio Stoke, a news and entertainment program based out of central...

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TV Reporter Susannah Collins Fired After Saying 'Sex' On Air

TV Reporter Susannah Collins Fired After Saying 'Sex' On Air

For Chicago sports reporter Susannah Collins, it was an unfortunate slip of the tongue. During a live televised report outside the Chicago Blackhawks locker room, Collins said of the team: "Despite the fact that they've had a tremendous amount of sex in the regular season." That was how she started a sentence...

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Burger King Worker Quits With Bridge-Burning Resignation Letter

Burger King Worker Quits With Bridge-Burning Resignation Letter

By Rebecca Baird-Remba The website Passive Aggressive Notes has posted what it calls a "whopper of a resignation" letter.The unnamed guy who wrote the letter was "resigning" from his job at Burger King because he was going to law school.

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Man Submits His Resignation By Cake

Man Submits His Resignation By Cake

People often fantasize about quitting their jobs in some spectacular fashion. But British airport worker Chris Holmes actually did it when he submitted his resignation Monday via a cake he baked. The 31-year-old British immigration officer at London's Stansted Airport arrived for work with the large rectangular...

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WWE Star Sued For Painfully Real Assault On Co-Worker

WWE Star Sued For Painfully Real Assault On Co-Worker

World Wrestling Entertainment's star wrestlers are often said to be "faking" fights. But now WWE producer Andrew Green has filed a lawsuit against one of the biggest wrestlers, Big Show (whose real name is Paul Donald Wight Jr, ) for a chokehold that Green says was painfully real. Green claims that Big Show,...

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Survey: Creepiest Requests From Bosses

Survey: Creepiest Requests From Bosses

If you're like most workers, you probably navigate a number of complex relationships every day. Hard-to-please customers. Temperamental co-workers. But of course, your relationship with the boss is paramount, and handling that can become all the more challenging if your boss places unreasonable, perhaps even...

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Reporter Receives Call From Mom During Live News Report

Reporter Receives Call From Mom During Live News Report

Have you ever received a poorly timed personal call at work? You're about to close a deal, when your child's principal calls, informing you that a photo of your daughter, scantily clad, is circulating around middle school? You're getting a disastrous job-performance review, when your hubby calls to say that...

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Everything You Need To Know About Coffee At Work

Everything You Need To Know About Coffee At Work

By Anna Codrea-Rado, Quartz The cardinals who are gathered at the Vatican take a very important daily pause during their deliberations to choose a new pope. "There's a coffee break for about 30 minutes at a special buffet area in the front part of the audience hall," the Rev. Thomas Rosica told CNN. "Cardinals...

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Australian Miners Fired For Harlem Shake Video

Australian Miners Fired For Harlem Shake Video

Not everyone has taken to the Harlem Shake, the convulsive groove that's swept the globe, to the tune of 4,000 YouTube videos a day. In Egypt and Tunisia, the meme has become a protest anthem of many young people, enraging conservative Muslims. And in the U.S., an airplane-based shake triggered a federal...

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Seattle Barista Matt Watson Fired For Bitter Blog Mocking Customers

Seattle Barista Matt Watson Fired For Bitter Blog Mocking Customers

Lots of baristas are disaffected, quietly cursing persnickety customers, and sneaking caffeine or full-fat milk into those patrons' drinks. But if they want to keep a career in customer service, they would be wise to keep their gripes off the Internet. A Seattle coffee shop worker has just been fired after...

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Weird Ways People Spend Their Lunch Hour

Weird Ways People Spend Their Lunch Hour

By Luke Roney, CareerBliss Each day, workers around the U.S. are faced with a crucial decision: what to have for lunch. For some, however, the "lunch" in their lunch break is a mere suggestion. And their midday hour away from the office has little to do with eating.

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Tina Fey and '30 Rock': 7 Career Lessons

Tina Fey and '30 Rock': 7 Career Lessons

Since "30 Rock" is having its finale Thursday, we thought we would republish this article about creator Tina Fey. Take a look, and then share with us the career lessons you've learned from watching the NBC hit show or reading Fey's memoir. By Anthony Balderrama Celebrities don't always make the best role...

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Make Super Bowl Monday A National Holiday, Petition Says

Make Super Bowl Monday A National Holiday,  Petition Says

The federal government's grandest experiment in democracy -- the online WhiteHouse.gov petitions -- have brought the people together on such causes as deporting Piers Morgan, creating a Death Star, mandating state Pokemon, and the secession of a dozen of our union's states. The upcoming Super Bowl has prompted...

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College Kid's Amazing, Plucky Cover Letter For Wall Street Internship Goes Viral

College Kid's Amazing, Plucky Cover Letter For Wall Street Internship Goes Viral

By Julia La Roche and Joe Weisenthal Sometimes we get forwarded applications for summer internships on Wall Street that are extremely embarrassing because the applicant is totally full of themselves or completely clueless. What happens is the letters go viral and the Street passes them around in long email...

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Top 9 Craziest Job Titles

Top 9 Craziest Job Titles

When kids are asked what they want to do when they grow up, they usually have answers like teacher, fireman or chef. But of course, life sometimes throws a curve, and people can end up in careers that they never would have dreamed of. And then there are people who end up in jobs with titles that either make...

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Mayan Calendar 2012: How The End-Of-The-World Myth Can Help Your Career

Mayan Calendar 2012: How The End-Of-The-World Myth Can Help Your Career

The Mayans were quite an advanced civilization. They had agriculture, written language and, as we've been learning in story after story this week, a calendar. Mayan civilization itself ended hundreds of years ago, but the calendar ticked along until. ... Dec. 21, 2012.

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