Word: on-the-job
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...getting on with their life's work." Immediately Ray Mansfield, 44, a center and therefore a realist, started selling life insurance on the side. "We never have that one extreme moment of football glory," he says, "so offensive linemen are less afraid of living on." They receive on-the-job training in anonymity. A gathering of the heftiest Steelers watched the Super Bowl together that year, and at one point Mansfield gave voice to their unreasonable dream of someday playing in one. As it happened, they would play in four, starting back in Tulane Stadium at Super Bowl...
Before beginning a new career, it is important to get on-the-job training. That was the logic behind Justin Haan ’05’s Friday night last weekend...
...boasts Vice President Gregory Scherer, "We have no sick pay, we have well pay." For each month that a worker is neither late nor out ill, the Minneapolis firm awards an extra two hours of salary. And employees who lose no more than three days a year to on-the-job injuries can collect a bonus...
...while, they were right. The name-brand hosts, comics Al Franken and Janeane Garofalo, were audio amateurs. In their on-the-job training, three hours a day, they learned that comedy is easy, radio is hard. The most persuasive hosts were radio veterans Randi Rhodes and Rachel Maddow. But Air America came close to folding for a reason the right couldn't have guessed: it ran out of liberal fat cats and went broke in two weeks. When its checks bounced, it lost stations in Los Angeles and Chicago. As the documentary Left of the Dial (on HBO this week...
...first classes, for some 16 youngsters, began earlier this month. The students?some of whom previously survived by scavenging in the city's refuse heaps?will learn everything from tidying beds to scrambling eggs. Shinta Mani's 50 full-time staff will also be giving the students on-the-job training. "Seeing the living standard of many of the residents of Siem Reap, you naturally want to try to help," says Martin Dishman, the hotel's general manager...