Archive for January, 2008

The mother of all workplace myths

By admin ⋅ January 25, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Do women know what they’re risking when they have children or are they blinded by the myth of equality?
It wasn’t her imagination. They were looking at her differently. You’d think she had six heads or something. Siobhán had worked like a dog for the past 15 years. She had received top honours at university and [...]

Cover yourself

By admin ⋅ January 11, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Nobody likes to see people excluded or left out. It’s not nice. Frustrating people unnecessarily and insulting their honesty and integrity are also bad manners, writes Margaret E. Ward
Yet this, it seems, is exactly how insurance companies make their money, as you’ll hear in this tale of three policies.
As a concept, insurance is a great [...]

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