Word: cubed
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...another idea. What if employers made all employee salaries known? If you think about it, who is served by all the secrecy? Not you. It might irk you to learn that the junior analyst in the next cube really can afford his Bora Bora honeymoon-but that's all the more ammunition to gun for a raise. Transparency even benefits management, says Dave Cervone, a compensation expert at Challenger, Gray & Christmas. When he posted the staff salaries at a Chicago investment bank, he found that workers liked knowing where they stood. "It took away the mystery so they could focus...
...hero Johnny is a frustrated young cube dweller, disillusioned with his fledgling accounting career. "He did what everyone said he was supposed to do," writes Pink. "He's begun to suspect that everyone was wrong." Enter Diana, a comely sprite who doles out zenlike job advice ("Think strengths, not weaknesses. Persistence trumps talent. Make excellent mistakes") along with manga magic in this witty Japanese-style graphic novel. She convinces Johnny that following his true creative passion is the secret to workplace success. Luckily for readers, Pink, a best-selling author who studied manga in Tokyo, and his talented illustrator...
...kind of person in the advertising world." One of those stereotypes, he says, was the "insane designer, basically. He has horrible social skills and horrible things going on in his life, and the only thing he has going for him is he can out-Photoshop the guy in the cube next to him." It took 2 1/2 hours to complete Episode 1. "The vast majority is improvised by Troy," says Bledsoe. "I hate him for that." Hitch adds, "It was meant to be a one-off thing." But within a few weeks, the blogosphere discovered it, and the series began...
...whole world and its mother has expressed an opinion about Yale senior Aliza Shvarts and her ill-begotten senior art project, which allegedly involved repeatedly inseminating herself and taking abortofacient drugs, filming her miscarriages, and then smearing the blood on a big plastic cube. Speculation continues over whether she actually carried out the acts or whether (as is more likely) it’s all a big “creative fiction” in aid of discourse, discomfort, and one student’s 15 minutes of fame...
...Charlotte Voisey. The chemical-cocktail movement grew out of a 2005 symposium sponsored by Dutch distiller Bols. In attendance were Herv This, the father of molecular gastronomy, and eight of the world's top bartenders. They created drinks including a boozy ice cream using liquid nitrogen and an ice-cube-like gin-and-tonic jelly. This month Cointreau is introducing a kit to convert its orange liqueur into caviar pearls. Mot & Chandon has created a line of Champagne drinks with foams and caviars that add fruity flavor to bubbly. Science never tasted so good...