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Question: I’ve worked three years for our branch, first as a salesperson and then as the sales manager. When I started to burn out on sales, I told our...
Question: I’ve worked for a retail chain for seven years, since high school. During my first six years, I worked part-time and went to college, taking mostly night classes....
Question: I’m the only male employee in a large oil patch company’s accounting department. Although I have a ten year history of positive performance reviews and a generally good...
Today’s work environment, in the struggling economic recovery, is fraught with pressures and workloads that are unique to the times and effect all of us. It is in this...