Word: bossed
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...books. Most important, from the network's standpoint, the budget is smaller. "I don't even know if we had a budget," says executive producer Greg Daniels. "It's more like an extra fee." Chalk up another irony for The Office: you have a big year, and the boss asks you to work overtime for peanuts. But the webisode project is less a comedown than the highest-profile example of the race at the networks to bring the small screen to the even smaller screen, fast...
...Penguin Lost, Viktor returns home when the heat is off and gets involved in high-level Kiev politics. He learns that his penguin has ended up in Chechnya, and heads to the volatile region to save his feathered friend. There, he ends up slaving for a Chechen boss in a makeshift crematorium that is the region's only neutral zone because it accommodates the dead from both sides of the conflict. Although he eventually returns home with Misha, Viktor and the penguin soon have to flee from a Kiev mafia boss turned parliamentarian. Their escape route involves a yacht trip...
...manager writes about a company owner who said he couldn't afford a portable toilet for his staff when the office pipes froze for two weeks--even as his wife was picking out a $20,000 chandelier for their vacation home. Those bad-boss tales are entered in a contest sponsored by Working America, a group affiliated with the AFL-CIO, to find the best stories of workplace woe. Submissions are being accepted at workingamerica.org until July 19, and anyone can vote online for his or her favorites. The top prize is a one-week vacation...
...entrants risk earning a permanent vacation. "Chances are, someone is going to find it," warns Nadine Haobsh, who was axed as a beauty editor after she blogged about the lavish gifts that firms sent her boss. "In cyberspace, you shouldn't get into your job, period...
...Moving ahead about five years, I was now clinic Attending - in other words, the boss. "We found your old note on this patient. I think she has DeQuervains (the same wrist problem) again. And could you look at the patient in the next room with me too? I think she has the same thing" The resident was a good one. His report on their histories and physical exams was perfect. He was thinking about operating on both women...