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 Christine O’Donnell, the Republican nominee for Senate in Delaware, has further problems with her resume.  She claims on her Linkedin page to have taken a course at the well-known Oxford University in Emgland.  Well, not quite.  What she actually took was a course from Phoenix University, a well-knwon for-profit school, at Oxford.  Phoenix rented space…

The work place can be a very dangerous place.  Workplace Prof presents a scenario that concerns another unnamed professor.  See post.  Workplace refers to another blog at: suburbdad.blogspot.com/.  Well, since Dean Dad posted the original post at his blog, Community College Dean, Dean Dad has taken back down the post at the request of the…

The national unemployment rate has increased from 9.5% to 9.6%.  See report.  54,000 government jobs were lost during the month of August.  That loss is probably due to the loss of census jobs.  But, there was an increase of 67,000 private sector jobs.  In Texas, the unemployment rate rose slightly from 8.2% to 8.3%.

 Workplace harassment takes many forms.  In the San Antonio Police Department, two police officers stuffed trash in a female co-worker’s mailbox.  They hid her squad car when she needed it. Now, the two male co-workers have been placed on suspension.  See San Antonio Express News story.  One of the male police officers is 31…

Paid maternity leave is virtually nonexistent in the US.  Even unpaid leave is not a given.  Since, the Family Medical Leave Act only applies to employers with 50 or more employees.  A worker must have worked for the employer some 12 months prior to requesting the FMLA leave.  According to one public agency, the FMLA…

 A San Sntonio soldier has been killed in Afghanistan.  PFC Diego Montoya was Mehtar Lam in Northern Afghanistan.  A 2009 Taft High School graduate, he participated in the high school JROTC program.  He was serving with the 64th MP Company.  See San Antonio Express News report.  His mother said he always wanted to serve in…

Yes, emails sent from the workplace almost always belong to the employer.  That still seems to be a shock to many employees.  Look at the story of Chris Gonzalez, grandson of a well-known, former San Antonio Congressman.  See San Antonio Express-News story.  Mr. Gonzalez has reportedly been sending harassing emails to a former girlfriend.

I do not understand.  I read polls saying Americans disfavor a mosque near Ground Zero and many Americans prefer not to have any mosque near their homes.  And, yet, I do understand.  If I had not spent 12 months in Iraq serving in the Army and working closely with several Iraqi, Moslem interpreters, I might…

So, you get angry with your employer.  They fire you.  You want to get back at them for what "they" did to you.  Most people start thinking lawsuit.  Not Edward Harrington.  He decided to start a blog complaining about his former employer, Levinson Axelrod, a prominent New Jersey law firm.  He started a blog called…