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FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Coworker takes so much food that other people don’t get any. Our problem is that there is one teacher who ALWAYS starts eating before the rest of us and takes a fairly large amount, several times, leaving the staff, especially the second shift of lunch, short on food! And possibly needs to hover near the food table to enforce it.

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JUNE 8, 2020

I’ve found chewed pens, chewed food, and spilled drinks on my desk. I have taken all my supplies off my desk and kept them in my car before so he won’t touch them, have left huge notes on legal size file folders asking that my desk not be used, covered my desk, shut my door — nothing works! It happens daily.

Supplies 33

Supplies Food Purchasing Cleaning 33

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AUGUST 12, 2015

We purchased two new ones just for her with a higher weight ability. I am getting ready to purchase more chairs and another one that goes up to 400 pounds for her. Is there anything that we can legally say to her? We have an obese employee who has broken several office chairs. She again broke the base of one of them.

Office Chairs 34

Office Chairs Supplies Purchasing Logistics 34

Success

APRIL 1, 2024

Soaring food prices: grocery prices have increased by 25% over the past four years. Kenniston recommends searching for someone who is a fiduciary—in other words, someone who has a legal or ethical relationship to provide trustworthy advice. Twenty-somethings face a complicated financial picture.

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Real Estate Purchasing Legal Food 40

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As in legally, can you fire her for this? I am now only a month away, so since they told him that he should be okay to take off, I purchased flight, hotel, and tickets for a Broadway show (about $1700) without insurance. Is this a terminable offense? Whoa, definitely do not contact his manager yourself. – 2014.

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Purchasing Supervising Teamwork Insurance 34

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JUNE 21, 2015

The conference isn’t mandatory, but the tickets, hotel and everything else has already been purchased with the expectation that I’ll be attending. I live in Las Vegas and have been in the food service industry for about 12 years. Is this legal? Nope, it’s not legal. What should I do? to follow a training server.

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Training Interviewing Legal Purchasing 35

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MARCH 19, 2018

Years and years ago, I worked for an organization that provided free housing for its interns — they purchased a huge old house, and had a staff member live there rent-free in exchange for making sure the house ran smoothly. You are bringing back terrible memories for me! For about a year, I was that staff member. (I

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Purchasing Construction Legal Food 27

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MARCH 24, 2016

As part of my very, very generous package, my employer purchased a lovely SUV. Also, there must be legal issues regarding an employer forcing an employee to spend money on something they don’t want to have. My role was to open and then manage a new sales office. All expenses are covered, and I can even have a driver if I want.

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Administrative Assistance Pharmaceutical Salary Office Chairs 20

Mad in America

MAY 31, 2024

Guardianship and the legal system stole her from me. Ten years later, my parents were divorced, and in 1969 my mother moved us from Hollywood to Newbury Park, CA, where she purchased her first home with a Veterans Administration loan and taught in high schools. What a joke the legal system is. Consider my mother’s story.

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Legal Food Controlling Reporting 127

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DECEMBER 13, 2017

People keep stealing food meant for meetings they’re not attending. Is there any way to avoid the problem of random employees helping themselves to food that wasn’t ordered for them? (I If you haven’t, do that — and mention that the meeting organizer looked bad because all the food was gone. Sometimes shame works with this.

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Food Purchasing Legal Catering 24

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JULY 9, 2015

That in and of itself wouldn’t normally be considered sexual harassment in the legal sense (it would need to be “severe or pervasive,” and this doesn’t sound like it rises to that level). He purchased it on his own and brought it to the office to use on a daily basis. Nope, it’s not legal. What do you think about this?

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Cubicle Banking Computer Legal 32

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NOVEMBER 28, 2019

s and working with a placement agency to find that perfect job that would take me out of food service. The ED asked me to handle all the legal paperwork for transferring the deeds and titles and whatnot. After a bunch of reading and studying, I mailed off the documents only to have them rejected for legal reasons I didn’t understand.

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Banking Mailing Real Estate Legal 33

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OCTOBER 19, 2017

To some extent, that can arise from the legal distinctions that companies are required to make between employees and contractors; if they treat them the same, they risk being forced to reclassify the contractors as employees (with all the accompanying costs for payroll taxes, benefits, and in some cases government-imposed fines).

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Cubicle Payroll Purchasing Government 20

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MARCH 17, 2015

My company is an operating unit of a higher level corporation, but I’m not sure if this is something that merits going “up the food chain” either within my OU or to the corporate HR to handle this. I work for the director so I make the purchase with the company credit card. Is this legal?

Finance 33

Finance Interviewing Legal Training 33

Mad in America

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The pediatric drug I took was most likely purchased by my father at our family grocery store, which was located in the heart of our village community. The number of pharmaceutical products in the home today is unprecedented—and drugs, both legal and illegal, continue to be the leading cause of child poisoning.

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Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Government Purchasing 139

Success

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Gauge demand for your product by analyzing purchasing patterns, and consider seasonality and other trends that might affect sales. For instance, services like organic pet food delivery and tech-enabled pet monitoring are growing in popularity. Evaluate factors like age, gender, location, income level and lifestyle.

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Sales Equipment Food Purchasing 98

Work Life

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Over the course of my legal and sustainability career at companies like Levi Strauss and Vital Farms, Ive come to the belief that the stakeholder model is a fundamentally better way to do business. At Vital Farms, our purpose is to improve the lives of people, animals, and the planet through food.

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Legal Food Purchasing Prioritization 76

Work Life

JANUARY 25, 2025

Lansing visits them all, spending most of his time on the road, assuring food quality and innovation and meeting field team members and partners along the way. I wish I loved working out, Lansing says as we put our hot dogs down and embark on the rest of our food tour. Nobody was offering premium food experiences at stadiums.

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Work Life

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Amazon-owned Whole Foods is asking the National Labor Relations Board to set aside the results of a union election in which the first group of the companys employees voted in favor of collective bargaining. It also said the objections filed by Whole Foods was a legal maneuvering done to delay the bargaining process.

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