Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Sometimes we bring food and share it among us. Last month, my boss told me and everyone else that we had lunch with that we can no longer share our food with each other. My boss said that it was favoritism because we were not inviting everyone else in the department to eat with us and share our food with them.

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 28, 2018

She works in retail and recently told me she felt too sick to work but couldn’t call in because her coworker, “Bob,” who has stage 4 cancer says he can’t work alone. He drinks beer, eats raw fish and junk food, and otherwise seems normal. This sounds off to me. She says otherwise he seems healthy.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 30, 2015

Is there anything her boss can do legally considering the phones were gifts? Often, yes, I think so too — at least assuming that we’re talking about something like retail or food service work. But even in retail or food service, I think you could still ask for at least a day or two. My question is, is this legal?

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SnackNation

JANUARY 24, 2019

After all, 2018 saw never-before-seen CPG innovations from black-hued foods to frame-worthy packaging. Read on to find out which food trends you can expect to see in 2019 – and maybe even your next snack box ! SnackNation’s 2019 CPG Trend Forecast. When it comes to snack trends, 2019 has quite a year to live up to.

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Ruby

JULY 3, 2020

Nalini Prasad: Yeah, awesome, so I’m the chief strategy officer, whatever that fun title means, at BluShark Digital, and so we are a digital marketing company that focuses on legal and law firms. We are able to create websites for other industries, but our bread and butter is legal, because we actually were born out of a law firm ourselves.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 3, 2019

If you can find work through June (which might mean temping, retail, or food service if you’re open to that), then you’re likely to get a bit of a reset with grad school anyway. It can be tough to find jobs for just a few months, especially with an already patchy work history and a recent firing.

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SnackNation

APRIL 22, 2019

I mean, in our world, in the snack and food and beverage world, look at what happens at Expo West. They’re mainly about food. Even those that are like, “Well, jeez, I’m in the legal …” Sean Kelly: No, whatever you do, you can serve your customer’s aspiration.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 22, 2015

But if you’re not comfortable with that, I’d make this your transition year; do a less significant gift, like baked goods or other food. Is this legal? It’s legal, and it’s pretty common. I’ve been working in retail for most of the past six years and am looking to try and use my writing skills again.

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Work Life

MARCH 22, 2024

Noriko Kuwabara was excited to try a new recipe she’d seen on social media for crispy shrimp spring rolls, so she and her husband headed to Costco’s frozen foods aisle. legal food safety standards required for all seafood imports.Dr. Food and Drug Administration. And it doesn’t meet U.S.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Its direct sales business model made it a household name, and so it stuck to it for more than seven decades and only started selling products in retail settings in 2022. But despite the negative connotation of the term, filing for this legal process does not necessarily mean the end of the road for a business.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

” (They also don’t offer benefits because offices are intentionally kept too small to be legally required to provide health insurance.). Is this a good strategy, or will future employers be more put off by an extended stint at a shady company than by a string of retail positions? Cydcor is known to be awful.

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Several years ago I was working in a retail job that involved services for customers (a jewelry counter that also offered watch battery replacement and band changes/resizing). His reason is because HR might try to blow me off or not do all they can do unless I let them know from the outset that I know what I am legally entitled to.

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Ask a Manager

JULY 15, 2020

This is only my third office-type job, but I have significant retail/food service experience before this, and to me, the pop quiz idea comes off as punitive and ineffective. She wants to give us pop quizzes on each other’s areas, while leaving us to handle the actual work of cross-training on our own.

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Success

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 2, 2020

You’ll never be able to stop it, but you can decline to engage by making it really boring for them and determinedly asking about something else: * “Eh, I hate talking about food. I work in customer service for a hobby retailer. Is it legal for them to do this? These people are annoying. What can I do when I’m bored at work?

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Workplace Wellness

JUNE 5, 2025

To protect your heart: Choose unsaturated fats from avocados, nuts, seeds, and olive oil Limit saturated fats from red meats and full-fat dairy Avoid trans fats found in some processed foods like store-bought baked goods Tip: Omega-3 fatty acids, found in fatty fish, walnuts, and flaxseeds, can help reduce inflammation and improve heart health.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 11, 2021

I had a compliance role in the legal department of a Fortune 500 investment company. Everything else is basically low-paying retail and fast-food jobs. A reader writes: I feel that I have reached a dead-end professionally and could really use some advice. I used to be the breadwinner for my family.

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