13 workplace memes for when your job is a total drag

TwitterFacebook

Sometimes working can feel, well, like working

While having a job is fulfilling and necessary for most, it can be a total slog at times. Bosses are bossy, coworkers are nosy, and technology only cooperates when it wants to. When work just won’t throw you a bone, know that you’re not alone. Not to quote High School Musical, but “we’re all in this together.” 

Here are 13 memes to make your workday a little easier. 

1. “Oh, I’m sorry, I must’ve forgotten that horror movie discourse isn’t my job, rather just an interesting and mildly-fulfilling hobby.”

MY BOSS: why haven’t you completed any tasks for a week and a half

ME: did you hear the news? horror movies are about grief and trauma now

— michael lutz (@WarrenIsDead) March 26, 2019 Read more…

More about Jobs, Memes, Working, Twitter Roundups, and Culture

View More 13 workplace memes for when your job is a total drag

Planning for the uncertain future of work

In a recently published, roughly 75-page report, British non-profit organization The Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts (RSA) outlined several scenarios for how the UK labor market will be impacted by frontier technologies such as automation, AI, AVs and more. The analysis titled “The Four Futures of Work” was conducted in collaboration with design […]

View More Planning for the uncertain future of work

Looking to join the gig economy? Here are 5 jobs you can teach yourself how to do.

“Just keep hustling” is probably the motto of everyone in the gig economy, which, according to recent data, accounts for 36 percent of the American workforce.
There are 57 million people in the U.S. today working some type of gig. This includes full-…

View More Looking to join the gig economy? Here are 5 jobs you can teach yourself how to do.

Google takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and Canada

The recruitment market is big business — worth some $554 billion annually according to the most recent report from the World Employment Confederation. In the tech world, that translates into a big opportunity to build tools to make a recruiter’s work easier, faster and more likely of success in finding the right people for the […]

View More Google takes Hire, its G Suite recruitment platform, to its first global markets, UK and Canada

One-quarter of jobs are at ‘high-risk’ of being automated

No one will be entirely safe from automation in the future, but according to a new study out of the Brookings Institute, around 25 percent of U.S. jobs are at “high risk.” It’s a stark bit of foreshadowing in a job market that has yet to fully rebound. Roles in transportation, food prep, production and […]

View More One-quarter of jobs are at ‘high-risk’ of being automated

Fueling the future: The rise of wind tech careers

TwitterFacebook

Ad Content from AT&T

Driving through the rural landscape of South Texas, wind turbines dot the topography like stoic guardians of the open expanses. Perhaps there is no more powerful metaphor for progress — and for the future — than these majestic structures.

Beto Gonzalez, the superintendent of Webb Consolidated Independent School District, calls the turbines “towers of hope.” Beginning this fall, Webb CISD will roll out a program — the first in the country at the high-school level — that teaches kids the hands-on skills they’ll need to become wind turbine technicians in the green economy.

It was a natural fit, explains Gonzalez, that just as AT&T was investing in a wind energy center in South Texas, the school district would hone in on efforts to prepare kids for jobs in the renewable energy sector. “We [wanted] to create a college-level curriculum for our high schoolers to give them hope for gainful employment in purposeful, technical careers,” says Gonzalez. Read more…

More about Jobs, Supported, Environment, Renewables, and Texas

View More Fueling the future: The rise of wind tech careers

‘Cosby Show’ actor Geoffrey Owens says he’s feeling pretty good about his job at Trader Joe’s

TwitterFacebook

Yes, former Cosby Show actor Geoffrey Owens is now working at a Trader Joe’s and, to hear him tell it, he’s feeling pretty good about things these days.

Owens, who played “Elvin” on the NBC sitcom, opened up to Good Morning America on Tuesday about the firestorm that’s ensued in the days since he was photographed at his current job at a New York City Trader Joe’s.

FULL INTERVIEW: @GMA EXCLUSIVE — “There’s no job better than another…every job is worthwhile…” Actor Geoffrey Owens speaks out, responding to job shaming and backlash after a photo of him working at a grocery store was posted online: https://t.co/0wZJnpowI9 pic.twitter.com/aNiG5fV2yf

— Good Morning America (@GMA) September 4, 2018 Read more…

More about Jobs, Trader Joe S, Geoffrey Owens, Culture, and Celebrities

View More ‘Cosby Show’ actor Geoffrey Owens says he’s feeling pretty good about his job at Trader Joe’s