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...sensibilities of the ironic age. “Anyone we know dead?” Harry’s best friend, Ron, asks every morning when the Daily Prophet flies to their Hogwarts breakfast table. Ron’s mother, Mrs. Weasley, has always had a magical nine-handed clock to monitor the whereabouts of every member of her family (“home,” “school,” “work,” “traveling”). In this book, all nine hands point to “mortal peril...
...experiment is only three years old, and TIME got an exclusive look at how it is going from the managers who have learned not to be control freaks to the hourly workers who no longer have to punch the clock. Entire departments join at once, so that no single employee is left out and made to feel less dedicated. Thus far, nearly half the 3,500 employees at Best Buy's headquarters in Minneapolis, Minn., are part of the effort. Each group finds a different way to keep flexibility from turning into chaos. The public relations team got pagers...
...deprogramming begins with what Best Buy calls "sludge sessions," because they are where employees dig out the cultural barriers to change--the jokes and comments that reinforce overwork. "It's like, coming in at 10 o'clock and someone says, 'Wow, I wish I could come in at 10,'" Tobias says. "It's really hard to let that bounce off and not be defensive." LaMere, 32, says she used to gossip about who was taking an extra-long lunch break. "We were all watching each other," she says. "You don't want to be seen eating in the cafeteria." LaMere...
...earlier concert drew approximately 50 people, “which was a great turnout for 7 o’clock on a school night,” said T. Josiah Pertz ’05, the band’s publicist...
...that spooky, real raspy voice,” she said. “It was like four o’clock in the morning, so I was pissed. I picked up the phone and said hello, that person said a creepy hello that woke me up and I said ‘hello’ and he said ‘hello’ and I unplugged the phone...