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...still employed, you know you're among a fortunate bunch. In this market, a job is about the only asset that continues to have value. So, if your livelihood were threatened, how far would you go to hang on to it? Would you lie to your colleagues? Would you flirt with your boss...
...economy, perhaps it comes as no big shock that 13% of the survey respondents said they would outright lie or exaggerate to keep their jobs - even though such behavior is forbidden by many companies' ethics policies. About 2% said they would take credit for someone else's work or flirt with the boss to get ahead, and 4% would lie about having common interests with their boss to deepen their bond with a superior. "The negative responses were surprisingly high," says Kenny. "People are very frightened of losing their job, and they become threatened. People make extensive plans for Christmas...
...youngest workers were the most likely to resort to questionable tactics, the survey found. Nearly 40% of employees from 18 to 34 said they would act dishonestly to save their jobs, a quarter of them would explicitly lie, and 4% would flirt with their boss for an advantage. It's not clear whether members of the younger generation are simply more forthcoming than their elders about bad behaviors, or whether they're just plain old bad. Probably a bit of both, says Kenny. "They are the newest in the professional world, so they are still learning the professional lessons...
...being a bondage babe wasn't much of a distinction to the mass audience of the '50s, who didn't know Bettie Page existed. Back then, Bettie was caviar only to the purchasers of girlie mags, tatty titles like Wink, Whisper and Flirt, where she was the preeminent pinup queen of her day. In January 1955 she was also the 13th model to grace the centerfold of a new slick magazine called Playboy...
Really? Last year my friend and I became obsessed with singing R. Kelly's "I'm a Flirt" every single night that we went out. And that song has R. Kelly, it has T-Pain, it has T.I. It's a pretty long song, and we don't do it well at all but you have to have a little bit of stamina to get through. And definitely at the end of the song I'm winded. I get to the point where I hear the first few notes and I'm like oh man, I'm not gonna make...