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		<title>The Really Bad Boss Friday Flashback &#8211; don&#8217;t try this at work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In this oldie but goodie, radio DJ, "Arnetta the Moodsetta" of WBLX-FM in Mobile, Alabama quit her job...live on the air.]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/the-really-bad-boss-friday-flashback-dont-try-this-at-work/</link>
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		<title>Employers and the work-life balance</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Years ago I interviewed for a job where the HR Director told me point blank, “this job will be your life. I have family too, but this job comes first.” Thankfully, I didn’t get the job. Another colleague did, and less than a year later she was hospitalized for anxiety as a result of the stress associated with the position.]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/employers-and-the-work-life-balance/</link>
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		<title>A rant against bad boss behavior everywhere</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Whether it’s politicians lying about their love children, teachers having affairs with students and each other, or bosses lying to protect the bottom line, we’ve been experiencing a crisis of bad boss behavior lately, and there’s no telling when it’s going to stop.]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/a-rant-against-bad-boss-behavior-everywhere/</link>
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		<title>The Really Bad Boss Blog Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What's the blogoshpere saying about bosses this week? Forehead Tittaes, Manners for a change, The great divide and more...]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/the-really-bad-boss-blog-roundup-22/</link>
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		<title>Extreme bad boss behavior: Boss snorts coke off employee&#8217;s shoulder</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the “We couldn’t make this stuff up if we tried files” Cocktail waitress Nicole Slama is suing her former boss and Manhattan nightclub owner Gary Malhotra for sexual harassment after he essentially forced her to use her body as a drug table.]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/extreme-bad-boss-behavior-boss-snorts-coke-off-employees-shoulder/</link>
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		<title>More bad boss advice, because they just don&#8217;t get it</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As evident by the number of sexual harassment claims in the news every week, many companies still haven’t learned how to handle the issue. So here are a few suggestions for avoiding sexual harassment claims.]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/more-bad-boss-advice-because-they-just-dont-get-it/</link>
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		<title>When bad boss behavior endangers lives</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Bosses who go around conducting clandestine trash can searches, pantyhose inspections and  national sales meetings loaded, are pretty bad. But at least they don’t endanger lives. Not so with the boss of West Virginia coal mine, Patriot Coal. ]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/when-bad-boss-behavior-endangers-lives/</link>
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		<title>The Really Bad Boss Blog Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Really Bad Boss rounds up the best of what the blogosphere's saying about bosses this week...]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/the-really-bad-boss-blog-roundup-21/</link>
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		<title>amNY takes on Tyrants in the Workplace</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On Tuesday reallybadboss.com, along with other experts in the field of workplace tyrants, was featured in an amNY piece by Lucy Cohen Blatter. The post, titled, Tyrants in the Workplace, touched on topics we’re all too familiar.]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/amny-takes-on-tyrants-in-the-workplace/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Go F yourself&#8221; is never a good way for a VP to respond to a customer complaint. Ever.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A couple had a “distracting” experience at the 9:40 pm showing of Shutter Island at the St. Croix Falls Cinema 8 in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin. Later that night, Mrs. Kohl-Leaf, shot off an email to the cinema owners complaining about, among other things, the theater not taking debit or credit cards, the ATM being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/go-f-yourself-is-never-a-good-way-for-a-vp-to-respond-to-a-customer-complaint-ever/</link>
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		<title>He controls his emotions, she&#8217;s cold</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While a male boss who freely gives his opinion is perceived as someone who “tells it like it is,” the same behavior in a female counterpart is seen as a lack of tact. Aggressiveness in males in business is expected, even lauded, in women, it’s seen as being bitchy. What's up with that?]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/he-controls-his-emotions-shes-cold/</link>
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		<title>&#8220;Hey Baby &#8211; I just wanted to say hi before I go to bed&#8230;&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Thus starts an email sent to a 17 year old high school student - by his teacher. “Good night baby! I'll meet you in our dreams. I miss you baby! Muaah!” is how the email ended. Last spring, Dallas school investigators found that Skyline High School teacher Leslie Michel Finch behaved inappropriately with her 17 year old student for over a year. Despite that fact, ten months after the district concluded its investigation, Finch was still working at the school before resigning in January.]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/hey-baby-i-just-wanted-to-say-hi-before-i-go-to-bed/</link>
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		<title>Authorities still on the lookout for &#8216;Good Management&#8217;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve had several requests to reissue the Really Bad Boss APB for Good Management. In light of the relentless stream of idiocy displayed by the really bad bosses around us, I thought today would be a good day to reissue that APB:
 
Authorities issue an APB for Good Management. Missing for years from thousands of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/03/authorities-still-on-the-lookout-for-good-management/</link>
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		<title>The Really Bad Boss Week in Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week in Really Bad Boss…

The arrogance factor – Bad boss trait #9, and you can usually spot it a mile away. Little people with little minds and a little bit of power – a disastrous combination.


Buck Hamilton concluded his Managing the Meanies series by defining the real problem with bad bosses.


A couple of Walmart [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/02/the-really-bad-boss-week-in-review-20/</link>
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		<title>The Really Bad Boss Blog Roundup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What the blogosphere’s saying about bosses this week…

Candadian site, GlobeLife wants you to know “What to do when your boss is a bully.” The post centers around a new book out that alleges that British Prime Minister Gordon Brown was a big bully to his staff. While some claim the PM was merely passionate, Gary [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/02/the-really-bad-boss-blog-roundup-20/</link>
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		<title>Professor who hired actors to testify on his behalf found dead in home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Last week we reported the story of 48 year old William Fals-Stewart, a researcher at the University at Buffalo from 2000 to 2005 who was being was charged with among other things, grand larceny, perjury, and offering a false instrument after hiring actors to testify on his behalf at a university inquiry:
According to state prosecutors, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/02/professor-who-hired-actors-to-testify-on-his-behalf-found-dead-in-home/</link>
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		<title>Experts say Walmart&#8217;s firing of couple, not so smart</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a move that has employment lawyers around the country scratching their heads, Walmart fired a couple from their Monticello NY store shortly after the pair filed age discrimination and sexual harassment suits against the retailer.
The store claims that the couple, who have been employed by Walmart for nearly fifteen years jointly, were terminated based [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/02/experts-say-walmarts-firing-of-couple-not-so-smart/</link>
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		<title>Managing the Meanies: The real problem with bad bosses</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last of installment of his Managing the Meanies series, Buck Hamilton breaks down the real problem with bad bosses. Despite our personal objections to bad management and the havoc it wreaks on our own lives and careers, ultimately what suffers are the companies who employ and promote bad managers…]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/02/managing-the-meanies-the-real-problem-with-bad-bosses/</link>
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		<title>Really Bad Boss Trait #9: The arrogance factor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A friend of mine (let’s call him Mike) called to vent the other day. He’d just gotten a call from someone in HR at a company he’d applied for a position with. The HR manager, apparently took the time to contact Mike &#8211; out of what I’m sure was hundreds of applicants – just to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/02/really-bad-boss-trait-9-the-arrogance-factor/</link>
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		<title>The Really Bad Boss Week in Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This week in Really Bad Boss...]]></description>
		<link>http://reallybadboss.com/2010/02/the-really-bad-boss-week-in-review-19/</link>
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