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...Department of Labor has not reported longer work days, but then the government doesn't track hours kept by managers and others who don't get overtime pay. Consider Melanie Mancebo. A recruiter for Atlanta-based IT staffing-and-consulting company AGSI, she's so exhausted from 10-hour days and weekend work that when she gets home, around 8:30 p.m., she heads straight to bed. Mancebo, 34, whose job is to hire tech talent, also handles research, sales and client relations. "We've always done a lot of pitching in around here," she says, "but now more than...
Some companies look to kill costs and ghost-work stress with a single stone: unpaid vacations. Since BellSouth offered unpaid leave to its 80,000 remaining employees in July, almost half have grabbed it--saving the Atlanta-based telephone company $14 million in payroll costs. Some firms, though, have made unpaid vacations mandatory. Last year Dell demanded that workers take one-week vacations without pay. "That had a lot of people grumbling," says an employee...
...husband Hussein fled war-scarred Somalia in 1991; what she dreamed of a decade ago, when they left a crowded refugee camp in Kenya to immigrate to the U.S.; and what she thought she had found when they settled in a five-bedroom house in the Atlanta suburb of Stone Mountain, Ga. Then, in the fall of 2000, when Mohamed, 39, broke her leg and was unable to work and help pay the rent, the family's security seemed at risk again. A Somali friend living in Maine offered a solution: the homeless shelters there were so spacious, she said...
...husband to call if he had any problems after Sept. 11, and a concerned teacher asked Hibat if she felt scared. Mohamed says she nods hello to her neighbors and they usually smile back. Indeed, she likes Lewiston so much that she talked it up to her brother in Atlanta, who now lives in the area...
What's the catch? Well, the price is steep: air fare from your hometown to Prince Rupert, B.C., (about $600 round trip from Atlanta), plus about $3,950 for everything else involved in three days of fishing. Logistics include a two-hour flight from Vancouver to Prince Rupert, followed by a 40-minute hop by floatplane to the fishing lodge. The weather (especially fog) is unpredictable along the coast, so be prepared for delays...