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CEO gets cool $44M severance package for one day of work
How much severance would you expect after one day on the job? Not a lot, right? Well, the now ex-CEO of Duke Energy Corp., Bill Johnson, is getting up to a cool $44.4 million for his one day at the helm. Johnson had previously been CEO of another energy company that merged with Duke and signed a contract to be Duke’s chief officer when the merger took effect.
Existential French cat mourns useless trips to vet’s office
You can’t keep a sad cat down. Henri the existential French cat is back and as glum as ever after his star turn in April. This time, he’s going to the vet.
Larry Crowne: Tom Hanks’s Unemployment for Beginners
The harmless film Larry Crowne opens with the harmless Larry getting fired from his job at a Wal-Mart-like big-box store in the San Fernando Valley. Although the story quickly proceeds through familiar hallmarks of recent years — the fruitless job search, the necessary yard sales and looming foreclosure — this is not a recession story
Study on Modern Parenting: Job-Sharing Couples Still Rare
Anne and her husband Johannes Bulko, who have a 2-year-old son, Olvar, share one job: packer in a drug-supply firm. They work alternating weeks.
It’s a Wrap. You’re Hired!
Video résumés have long tickled imaginations in Hollywood without making much of a dent in the real world. Enter Aleksey Vayner
When Companies Refuse to Interview the Unemployed for Jobs
When Sony Ericsson needed new workers after it relocated its U.S. headquarters to Atlanta last year, its recruiters told one particular group of applicants not to bother.
A Flight Plan for the American Economy
The good news is that the American economy is back to its precrisis size. The U.S
How to Build a Job Engine
Katherine Knapp Carney can barely contain her enthusiasm about her new job.
Rediscovering America
A new generation of historians finds new meanings in the past The American .