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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" data-aos-anchor-placement="top-bottom" id="contents">Contents</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-jokes-subreddit">From Jokes Subreddit</a></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</h1>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Serious Are Sam Bankman-Fried’s Alleged Campaign-Finance Violations?</strong> - He gave to Democrats, and claims that he also gave to Republicans through dark-money donations. But the money may have never been his to give. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/how-serious-are-sam-bankman-frieds-alleged-campaign-finance-violations">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>What a Ban on Non-compete Agreements Could Mean for American Workers</strong> - Companies often prevent employees from joining rivals. The Biden Administration wants that to end. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a/what-a-ban-on-non-compete-agreements-could-mean-for-american-workers">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>The First Gen Z Congressman Believes He Can Change Washington</strong> - In a narrowly divided House, the twenty-five-year-old Florida Democrat Maxwell Frost seeks to fulfill a promise to his generation. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/dispatch/maxwell-frosts-vision-meets-washington">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>California’s Devastating Storms Are a Glimpse of the Future</strong> - Even as the state weathers a megadrought, climate change is increasing the risk of massive floods. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/californias-devastating-storms-are-a-glimpse-of-the-future">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Three Climate Reports: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly</strong> - Some progress was made in 2022, but the forecast still looks bleak. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/three-climate-reports-the-good-the-bad-and-the-ugly">link</a></p></li>
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<li><strong>The House GOP’s questionable attempt to shut down congressional unions, explained</strong> -
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<img alt="Congressional Workers Union" src="https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/thumbor/THF9udT-EqzueEph7TL9yACDDlY=/469x0:7977x5631/1310x983/cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/71856269/1241998193.0.jpg"/>
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Philip Bennett, president of the Congressional Workers Union, speaks during a news conference about the union outside the US Capitol on July 19, 2022. | Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc/Getty Images
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“We’re not going to stop”: Staffers are undeterred by Republicans’ union-busting efforts.
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In addition to the myriad changes to things like proxy voting and committee investigations, Republicans’ new rules for the House include a less discussed provision: an attempt to gut staffers’ ability to unionize.
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In 2022, House Democrats passed a resolution guaranteeing protections for staff who tried to unionize in the lower chamber. Since then, <a href="https://rollcall.com/2023/01/06/house-republicans-wipe-out-staff-unions-not-that-simple/">staffers in 14 Democratic offices</a> have opted to move forward with the unionizing process, which is overseen by the Office of Congressional Workplace Rights (OCWR). So far, one — former Rep. Andy Levin’s office — has completed it <a href="https://rollcall.com/2022/10/17/staffers-in-rep-andy-levins-office-sign-first-union-contract/">and ratified a contract</a>.
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Republicans’ new rules try to put a stop to these efforts, but because of the way they’re written, it’s unclear how much legal weight they actually have. Depending on how they are interpreted, they could potentially slow staffers’ attempts to organize and ignite legal battles over their rights to continue doing so. Whether this is the case, however, remains to be seen.
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As outlined by the Republican rules, the unionizing regulations passed last year by Democrats <a href="https://rules.house.gov/sites/republicans.rules118.house.gov/files/BILLS-118hresPIH-118th-rules-of-the-house-of-reps-V3.pdf">would have “no force or effect” in the 118th Congress</a>. That language, ultimately, may not be sufficient to actually stop staffers from organizing because it doesn’t change the underlying law that establishes their right to unionize or put forth an explicit new rule preventing such activities.
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“I don’t think they are hitting the mark,” Kevin Mulshine, a legal expert who previously served as senior counsel at Congress’s Office of Compliance, told Vox. “It could be done, but I don’t think they are succeeding in doing it.”
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The Congressional Workers Union, a group of staffers leading the House’s organizing drive, echoed this sentiment, noting that they plan to continue unionizing efforts. “It’s our understanding that this doesn’t have any effect on our current organizing or future organizing activities,” said Taylor Doggett, a spokesperson for CWU.
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Even though it may not have an immediate practical impact, Republicans’ inclusion of this rule is still significant, however. By trying to roll back the progress staffers have made, the GOP is sending a decidedly anti-labor message that pushes back on unions in Congress, and beyond.
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Republican attempts to stop unionizing have shaky legal footing
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If the House GOP wanted to stop workers’ unionizing efforts, there are two ways they could decisively do so.
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The first would be to pass a law that repeals the part of the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995 that guarantees staffers the right to organize. That avenue, however, is unlikely to advance with Democrats holding the Senate.
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The second would be to write a rule that explicitly bars unionizing in the House, says Mulshine. Republicans thus far have stopped short of taking this approach as well, and have not responded to a request for comment about the language they used.
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As written, the GOP rule basically calls on OCWR to stop implementing regulations the House approved last year. Currently, staffers need to file petitions with OCWR if they want to unionize their office. Then the agency oversees a vote in that office, and if a majority of members are in favor, their union is recognized.
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If the Republican rules were followed, OCWR could effectively ignore any new unionization petitions it receives, and refuse to oversee more votes. <a href="https://rollcall.com/2023/01/06/house-republicans-wipe-out-staff-unions-not-that-simple/">As Jim Saksa explains for Roll Call</a>, it’s unlikely that the rule would affect unions that have already been recognized in multiple offices, including those of Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Ro Khanna (D-CA), Melanie Stansbury (D-NM), Cori Bush (D-MO), Jesús “Chuy” García (D-IL), and Ted Lieu (D-CA).
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Interpreting this directive will be up to OCWR, an independent five-person agency that includes members named by both parties. Exactly how they go about doing so is still up in the air, as OCWR has not commented on the new rules and did not respond to a request for comment.
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Mulshine argues that OCWR has the right to simply disregard Republicans’ rules package and continue accepting staff petitions. “I would hope they would be robust in their response saying we’re an independent office, you can’t tell us what to do,” he said.
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Depending on how OCWR responds, it’s possible that either Republican leadership or the CWU could take legal action, though neither has said they intend to take that step just yet. <a href="https://rollcall.com/2023/01/06/house-republicans-wipe-out-staff-unions-not-that-simple/">As Saksa writes</a>, there is a lot of gray area in how the Republican rules would get enforced:
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If [the OCWR] continued to oversee union elections, the speaker might sue; if they didn’t, the unions or would-be organizers might sue.
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In either case, a federal court might decide it’s a nonjusticiable political question, leaving the legal matter unsettled.
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All that’s to say that the impact of GOP rules against unionizing is still uncertain.
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Union organizers are forging ahead
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Union leaders emphasize that they’re not put off by the Republican rules package and intend to keep on organizing offices that have already started the process, or are interested in doing so.
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In 2022, congressional staffers kicked off their unionizing effort in an attempt to push back against low pay, unpredictable hours, and hostile working conditions. Since then, they scored major wins when the House passed new protections that made retribution for unionizing less likely, and when then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi raised the pay floor for workers to $45,000. This year, they’re hoping to build on those gains.
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“Our answer is that we’re not going to stop altogether,” Doggett told Vox.
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Thus far, 14 Democratic offices have filed petitions to unionize, seven of which have been recognized. (Levin’s office is among those that have been recognized, though he’s since left Congress.) Those still awaiting votes include the offices of Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Rashida Tlaib (D-MN), and Mark Takano (D-CA), among others. Other new lawmakers <a href="https://prospect.org/labor/2023-01-04-congress-house-gop-congressional-staff-unions/">including Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-FL) and Chris Deluzio (D-PA)</a> have also expressed support for the unionizing effort on Twitter, a sign that their staff could later be interested in filing new petitions.
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Currently, no Republican offices have opted to unionize, a dynamic that could affect just how aggressively GOP leaders try to enforce these provisions, since their staffers haven’t been involved.
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Whether or not these rules take full effect, union organizers argue that the anti-labor message they send is clear, making evident where Republicans stand on workers’ rights and protections, despite the party’s attempts to frame itself as an advocate for the working class. Republicans’ treatment of congressional staff is indicative of their attitude to labor overall, they say.
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“I think it really goes to show that House GOP are interested in … taking away and stripping rights from workers,” says Doggett.
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<li><strong>Job interviews are a nightmare — and only getting worse</strong> -
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It should not take endless interviews to get a job. And yet. | Getty Images/Vox
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Employers are constantly finding new hoops for candidates to jump through.
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In late 2022, Jessica found herself in a predicament that will sound familiar to many job seekers: slogging through an extended interview process with seemingly no end in sight.
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She was up for a job as a fundraiser at a major social services organization in New York. Across the span of two months, she took part in six separate interviews with nine people total, multiple of whom she met more than once. She’d pulled one of her first all-nighters in years putting together a dummy presentation on a hypothetical corporate partnership for interview No. 4, which entailed what she describes as a 15-minute “monologue” from her on the matter followed by a 45-minute Q&A with a panel. It wasn’t until the final interview that she got a real one-on-one sit-down with the person who would be her boss.
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“Every time I thought, ‘Okay, this is the final hump,’ there was another thing,” said Jessica, which is a pseudonym. Vox granted her anonymity in order to protect her privacy and keep her out of hot water with her current employer. “It just gets really mentally exhausting, and it’s hard to manage your work schedule because obviously you don’t want your employer to know you’re interviewing.”
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Job-seeking can be a real exercise in immersive futility. It often feels like you’re <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22673353/unemployment-job-search-linkedin-indeed-algorithm">tossing your resume into the abyss and praying to the recruitment gods</a> for a response. If and when you get that response, the landscape doesn’t always get easier. Companies are seemingly coming up with new, higher, and harder hoops to jump through at every turn. That translates to endless rounds of interviews, various arbitrary tests, and complex exercises and presentations that entail hours of work and prep. There can be good reasons for firms to do this — they really want to make sure they get the right person, and they’re trying to reduce biases — but it’s hard not to feel like it can just be too much.
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“There’s no reason why 10 years ago we were able to hire people on two interviews and now it’s taking 20 rounds of interviews,” said Maddie Machado, a career strategist who has previously worked as a recruiter at companies such as LinkedIn, Meta, and Microsoft. “It’s kind of like dating. When you go on a first date, you need a second date. You don’t need 20 dates to know if you like somebody.”
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<q>Companies are seemingly coming up with new, higher, and harder hoops to jump through at every turn</q>
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Jessica describes her recent marathon interview process as basically having a “second job.” As for the actual job in question, she didn’t end up getting it. A week after her last interview, Jessica followed up with the recruiter and learned the organization was moving forward with another candidate. “They probably wanted to go with the other person all along but wanted me as a backup,” she said.
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If you do not have a terrible interview story, sincerely, congrats
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If you’ve ever looked for a job, chances are you’ve had some sort of a “what in the world is going on”<em> </em>moment. For Brad, a consultant in Pennsylvania who asked to withhold his last name, that moment came when he went through a series of interviews for a project management position in 2016. All of them went well — until he reached the CEO, who spent a significant portion of their nearly hour-long conversation dwelling on Brad’s somewhat low high school GPA, which the company had requested along with his college GPA and SAT scores. “I had to justify why my high school grade point average wasn’t top of the class,” he said. “I was offended.”
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He’d graduated from high school some 30 years prior and had 25 years of work experience. When the company’s recruiter later called him to suggest he spend more time talking to the CEO, he said he wasn’t interested. “I had the luxury of not needing the job,” he said. “You’ve got to like who you work for.”
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Reporting for this story, I heard anecdotes about hiring processes that ranged from irksome to hellish.
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One recent graduate described having to take a series of intelligence tests, go through two interviews, and provide five references — all of whom were asked to complete a 15-minute questionnaire — for an entry-level position at a nonprofit he was told he didn’t get two months later. One woman’s job offer was contingent on her getting a reference from her current manager, who wasn’t aware she was on the hunt for a job.
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<q>“My interviewing experiences have been worse than dating, with the ghosting and non-responses”</q>
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Another man was told to start looking for apartments across the country after being flown out for a final interview, only to follow up a couple of weeks later and learn that the recruiter simply forget to tell him he hadn’t gotten the job. “My interviewing experiences have been worse than dating, with the ghosting and non-responses,” he said.
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Among friends and colleagues, swapping interview horror stories can turn into a sort of sport. One of my former coworkers was asked to build out an entire content strategy for a popular financial newsletter and work with the team in the office. She was unemployed and scared, so she felt like she had no choice but to sign a waiver agreeing for her work to be used for free — work that was apparently good enough to be sent out to their readers but not to land her a position with the company. Looking at the company’s Glassdoor reviews, it’s obvious she’s not the only one who’s been subject to this sort of treatment.
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“So many employers get away with this,” Machado said. “They get away with making people go through all these hoops because … candidates have absolutely no protection.”
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The difference between okay and over-the-top isn’t always so obvious
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What counts as a fair ask from a potential employer isn’t always clear-cut. It can depend on the industry, the job level, and the purpose.
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“There’s a fine line between appropriate and inappropriate,” said Sondra Levitt, a leadership and career coach with Korn Ferry, an organizational consulting firm. For example, it might make perfect sense for a company to ask a candidate, especially at the executive level, to do some sort of presentation about their vision and what they want to accomplish. Where it gets hairy is when the company asks a candidate to create, produce, and submit a full-blown marketing campaign, which happened to one of Levitt’s clients recently. “The candidate felt like they were just trying to get free information and free work through the interview process,” Levitt said.
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There’s no denying that over the years, in many instances, the hiring process has gotten harder and more convoluted. A <a href="https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/new-data-reveals-84-of-talent-is-job-hunting-yet-60-believe-companies-are-failing-to-get-hiring-right-301474585.html">2022 survey</a> from hiring software company Greenhouse found that 60 percent of job seekers were “unimpressed by time-consuming recruitment processes.” There’s no concrete explanation as to why many employers have been so insistent on making the hiring process so hard — it’s likely an amalgamation of factors.
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Companies are afraid to make the wrong decision. Hiring is expensive and onboarding is time-consuming, so they really want to get it right. The pandemic and current economic conditions may be exacerbating employers’ anxiety even more. Levitt said she thinks many firms feel like they “jumped too fast” to make hires amid the <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/22841490/work-remote-wages-labor-force-participation-great-resignation-unions-quits">great resignation or great reshuffle</a>, as for much of 2021 and 2022 workers hopped jobs in droves. The pendulum is swinging the other way now, with managers being extra careful to do their due diligence, especially as <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/23519248/economy-2023-inflation-recession-federal-reserve-predictions">the economy looks rocky</a>.
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Becca Carnahan, the founder of Next Chapter Careers, said that companies may see multiple interviews and tests as a way to make the hiring process fairer. “It can reduce bias in the hiring process when you’re actually looking at a candidate’s abilities rather than their past accomplishments,” she said. She added that technology has likely also played a role in making the hiring process more complex. “These Zoom interviews are a lot easier than bringing candidates into the office,” she said.
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Jessica, the nonprofit fundraiser, speculated that in her case, tech and remote work made it possible for her potential employer to drag things out longer. Before the pandemic, she would have probably had to go to the office one day for a string of interviews, the firm recognizing she couldn’t just disappear at random from her current job for weeks on end. But with her simply clicking a Zoom link, the company was able to sprinkle interviews across multiple weeks.
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Machado believes that the increasingly long maze of recruitment and interviewing is driven, in part, by pride and by companies competing against each other to be considered the most elite places to work, especially in the tech world. “You want to be the most challenging interview. If you can get past the Facebook interview, you can get past anything,” she said. The caveat is that the best interviewers are not always the best people for the job, and a difficult interview process does not guarantee the candidate won’t quit. “There’s too much emphasis on screening people out and not on screening people in.”
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Perhaps the simplest answer to why companies make it so hard is that they can.
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In 2005, it took two interviews for Stacey Aldstadt, an environmental lawyer, to get her job as general manager of the city of San Bernardino’s municipal water department, from which she retired in 2017. While there, she oversaw 300 employees and a $120 million budget. In late 2020, she decided to apply for a job at a cannabis company looking to expand to California. She was subjected to a seven-interview, eight-week hiring process that culminated in an impersonal rejection email without explanation. Aldstadt has hired people in the past, and this seemed incredibly excessive. “I would never do that to someone,” she said. “Not in a million years.”
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If and when candidates feel like the employer is overdoing it in an interview process, the options are a little limited. To a certain extent, you kind of just have to go with it or walk away. But there are ways to navigate.
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It’s helpful to ask questions to ascertain expectations around interview assignments — figure out why they’re relevant and how they’ll be evaluated, and get assurances that the work remains proprietary. You can also try to decipher if there are alternatives, such as providing samples of previous work, or <a href="https://www.thecut.com/2021/04/can-i-get-paid-for-the-work-im-doing-for-a-job-interview.html">asking for compensation</a>, though the answer might be no. At the outset of the hiring process, it’s also a good idea to ask exactly what it’s going to entail — how many interviews, with whom, on what timeline — and hold the company or recruiters to it.
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“If a company is not communicating effectively with a candidate, if they are super opaque about the process and the timing, that’s where it gets really, really icky, and it can leave a candidate just feeling so confused,” Carnahan said.
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Candidates should also set some boundaries, which are different for everyone. Machado generally recommends the job seekers she works with do no more than four rounds of interviews. And if they’re asked to do a presentation or take-home assignment, it’s time to evaluate whether it’s a place they really want to work. Sometimes, candidates worry the potential employer will use their work. It might be more often the case that they don’t look at all. “They’re making people do these assignments, and then no one checks it,” Machado said.
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It’s important to remember that if a company’s hiring process feels off, working there might feel off, too. An employer having to reschedule multiple interviews because the interviewers are swamped at work might be a sign that things aren’t great, internally. “You’re definitely interviewing the company as much as you’re being interviewed, so stay attuned to what you are hearing and seeing,” Levitt said. “What’s your gut telling you about this company? About this job? About the organization?”
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Companies should take note that being a complete pain to deal with in recruiting is not great for their reputations, either. They can stall so much or put candidates through such a rigamarole by the time they put out an offer, the candidate’s just over it. More broadly, while job seekers may not have a lot of options to fight back, they can talk to others about their experiences, and they definitely do.
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Jessica says knowing what she knows now, she still probably would have applied for the fundraising job. Still, she wishes the organization hadn’t checked her references as a last and apparently unnecessary step. “It was a little weird for someone to be like, ‘Oh what happened to this? Did you get that offer letter?’ and you’re like, ‘Oh, actually, I didn’t get the job.’”
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<em>We live in a world that’s constantly trying to sucker us and trick us, where we’re always surrounded by scams big and small. It can feel impossible to navigate. Every two weeks, join Emily Stewart to look at all the little ways our economic systems control and manipulate the average person. Welcome to </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/the-big-squeeze"><em>The Big Squeeze</em></a><em>.</em>
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From quiet quitting to the Great Resignation, why we won’t stop making up words about work.
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We — workers, experts, journalists, me — just can’t stop talking about work these days. And that’s not just because we spend much of our waking lives doing it.
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Three years into a global pandemic that upended work for many Americans, we now find ourselves at the precipice of a recession that threatens to disrupt the way we work even further. Along the way, terms like the Great Resignation and quiet quitting have catapulted the 9 to 5 into the rest of our days. They manage to be both meaningless buzzwords that elicit eye rolls and succinct ways to capture real workplace phenomena.
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Quiet hiring is the latest term being thrown about. It describes the way<strong> </strong>employers are trying to complete necessary tasks not by adding more employees but by asking existing workers to shift their roles. It’s a play on the term quiet quitting, which describes workers refusing to go above and beyond in their work. The term quiet quitting came about as a rationale for the Great Resignation, or Americans’ sustained willingness to quit their jobs in search of better ones during the pandemic.<strong> </strong>Work did not have to take priority in their lives, and if it did, they could quit.
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When I first heard about quiet hiring, my first reaction was to groan and tell my editor, no, I will not write about this fake thing. I’m still skeptical about how the trend will play out but, after spending some time thinking about these terms and why we make them up, I’m more empathetic. For better or worse, these terms are powerful.
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We don’t just glom on to these terms because they’re catchy. We keep using them because they describe something real that’s happening, and they help us make sense of the rapidly changing world around us and allow us to see ourselves within that world.
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“We come up with terms to try and make the illegible legible — or, to play with the metaphor a bit, to create a grammar and structures that makes what’s happening feel understandable in some way,” Anne Helen Petersen, co-author of <a href="https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/673782/out-of-office-by-charlie-warzel-and-anne-helen-petersen/"><em>Out of Office</em></a>, told me.
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Of course, coming up with shorthand for what’s happening with work is as old as work itself. Mass layoffs beginning in the 1980s and 1990s were called “downsizing,” as companies came to think of these cuts as a sign of <a href="https://qz.com/work/1663731/mass-layoffs-a-history-of-cost-cuts-and-psychological-tolls">competitiveness</a> rather than corporate failure. In some ways, “<a href="https://www.vox.com/2018/8/29/17793764/louis-hyman-temp-book-kara-swisher-rani-molla-podcast-transcript">gig work</a>,” popularized by apps like Uber around the 2010s, sprang from those cuts, as corporations sought to fill employment gaps as cheaply and efficiently as possible.
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But now the whole process has become sped up, from recognizing a new phenomenon to writing about it to wanting to retract it. That’s not an illusion: The nature of work is changing quickly, and the pandemic only sped up that fact.
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“What we’re seeing is an effort to try to relate changes in the way work is done to historical paradigm,” said Joseph Fuller, a professor at Harvard Business school who leads its Managing the Future of Work initiative. In other words, the nature of work is shifting, and these terms help us fit those changes into our worldview.
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Perhaps the biggest reason these terms are so pervasive, however, is the simple fact that work is still such a strange and confusing place these days. The economy is supposedly collapsing, and yet there are still so many unfilled jobs. We’re in an era of worker power, where wages are rising rapidly, but not rapidly enough to keep up with inflation. People find meaning in their work, but their work has become so demanding that it saps the meaning out of life.
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So we create and perpetuate terms to help orient ourselves.
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<q>“If you come up with a snappy phrase, all of a sudden reporters are calling Harvard professors to ask about it”</q>
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But it’s also possible that our use of these terms has a circular effect. They’re coined because they’re happening, but then they happen more because people now have a language and a template to copy. Social media greatly amplifies that effect.
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“We know through multiple, highly vetted and validated studies, that people like you doing something gives you psychological permission to do the same thing,” Fuller said. “It doesn’t matter if it’s cheating on your taxes or throwing a brick through a window or standing up and screaming like a maniac at your favorite sports team.”
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And then there’s people like me, making matters worse.
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“In a world of social media, if you come up with a snappy phrase, all of a sudden reporters are calling Harvard professors to ask about it,” Fuller said.
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What these terms mean — and don’t
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The Great Resignation was <a href="https://today.tamu.edu/2022/02/11/the-texas-am-professor-who-predicted-the-great-resignation/">coined</a> by Texas A&M University associate professor Anthony Klotz in <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-05-10/quit-your-job-how-to-resign-after-covid-pandemic">a 2021 interview with Bloomberg</a>. He used the term to describe the coming wave of quits as people left their jobs due to a variety of pandemic-related reasons, like wanting to work remotely and rethinking work’s place in their lives.<strong> </strong>Since then, pretty much every publication has written about the topic — applauding it, deriding it, renaming it, questioning its very existence. (“Great Resignation” now turns up half a billion search results on Google.)
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The only thing certain about the topic is that around the start of 2021, Americans across industries <a href="https://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2022/article/empirical-evidence-for-the-great-resignation.htm">were quitting their jobs</a> at elevated rates, which have yet to truly return to normal. Structural factors like an aging population and lower rates of workforce participation also suggest that the trend, which began <a href="https://hbr.org/2022/03/the-great-resignation-didnt-start-with-the-pandemic">even before</a> the pandemic put it into overdrive, has staying power.
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Then came quiet quitting. The term was <a href="https://www.insider.com/tiktok-coined-the-term-quiet-quitting-now-its-turned-against-it-2022-9">coined and then popularized</a> on TikTok, where a user <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@zaidleppelin/video/7124414185282391342">described</a> it as “not outright quitting your job, but quitting the idea of going above and beyond.” This was seen as a response to the hustle culture of the 2000s and the 2010s, where overwork was praised and jobs became a stand-in for community and identity. For many Americans, announcing boundaries with work reflected the acceptance of a more transactional relationship with work.
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Quiet quitting was also one of the more insufferable terms out there, in part because it largely felt like a new term for something people have been doing forever: not making work the center of one’s life. As the Atlantic’s Derek Thompson has <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/quiet-quitting-trend-employee-disengagement/671436/">pointed out</a>, it’s also not necessarily happening at increased rates. Worker disengagement, despite ticking up slightly recently, has been remarkably steady over time, suggesting that the sentiment on TikTok wasn’t leading the battle against work but merely reflecting feelings that have long been there.
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<q>Coming up with shorthand for what’s happening with work is as old as work </q>
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That brings us to quiet hiring, which has been rolling around the internet in recent months. <a href="https://www.inc.com/kelly-main/google-quiet-hiring-employee-retention.html">Inc.</a> magazine used it last September to describe Google’s strategy to place overachievers into new roles within the company. And then <a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/experts/emilyrose-mcrae">Emily Rose McRae</a>, senior director of research at Gartner and leader of its future of work research team, can take credit for popularizing the current iteration of the term, after her<a href="https://www.gartner.com/en/articles/9-future-of-work-trends-for-2023"> 2023 work trends report</a> was picked up in a <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/04/gartner-hr-expert-quiet-hiring-will-dominate-us-workplaces-in-2023.html">CNBC article</a> last week.
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To McRae, quiet hiring is asking existing employees to take on new tasks as well as using contractors to fill in needs at companies that are struggling to find workers amid the Great Resignation and cost-cutting. She told me in an interview that the term is more nuanced than trends that have been happening for decades, like “<a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/23341744/worker-burnout-great-resignation-reshuffle-quit">doing more with less</a>” and “outsourcing.” Rather than individuals looking for more opportunities in an organization, McRae sees this as a management-led trend to try and make the best use of existing talent. It would also include compensating employees for their flexibility.
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All that said, McRae says the naming of trends is an important responsibility and one she says she doesn’t take lightly.
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“We’re gonna go into a room full of executives in a position of authority and say, ‘This is happening.’ By the very nature of doing that, we’re going to bring it into existence a little bit more.”
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These terms are useful until they aren’t
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As with anything that goes out into the world, these terms about work grew and morphed over time. They were misinterpreted and even became misaligned with their original meaning. Their definitions are imprecise and changing, and the words themselves have likely become overused, sometimes to the point of meaninglessness.
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Quiet quitting, for example, began as a reference to performing your basic duties and nothing more, but over time came to be<strong> </strong>interpreted <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_YRurV2gtc">by the managerial class</a> as workers slacking off. The brevity of the term “Great Resignation” had many assuming that people were quitting their jobs to just coast, when the reality was that most were doing so to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/13/business/great-resignation-jobs.html">find better employment</a>. It also missed that many of those quitting their jobs were doing so to retire early amid a dangerous pandemic.
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As Harvard’s Fuller put it, “There are real phenomena under each of them, but the kind of banner headline does not capture the nuance of what’s actually going on.”
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But even in their broad strokes, these terms can inspire people. The past few years are full of stories of people who’ve left their soul-crushing jobs in pursuit of more meaningful things, including finding other forms of work, spending time with family, and <a href="https://lappartement4f.com/">baking croissants</a>.<strong> </strong>Language around things like “burnout” has helped Americans out of toxic relationships with work and has spurred others to <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/8/30/23326654/2022-union-charts-elections-wins-strikes">unionize</a> and make their jobs better.
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Such flippant terms also have the ability to trivialize what are real concerns about things like workplace safety and fair compensation. Employers can take terms like quiet quitting to justify their worst impulses, like tracking <a href="https://hrexecutive.com/can-employee-monitoring-tools-detect-if-workers-are-quiet-quitting/">keystrokes</a> or instituting performance reviews as a way to justify <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/2022/12/8/23498824/amazon-layoffs-voluntary-buyouts-rescinded-offers-reputation">axing employees</a>.
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That doesn’t mean, however, that we won’t try to find the next “quiet X-ing” or the new “Great X.” Real problems at work remain.
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What will also continue is our penchant to talk about these terms, whether or not we agree.
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“I actually really appreciate that there is this pushback and backlash and reaction to it,” McRae, of quiet hiring fame, said. “Because that means that people really are interrogating it and not just totally running with it.”
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Malaysia Open badminton championship | Prannoy enters quarterfinals</strong> - Treesa Jolly and Gayatri Gopichand fought hard before going down to Bulgaria's Gabriela Stoeva and Stefani Stoeva in the women's doubles pre-quarterfinals.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ind vs SL, 2nd ODI | Kuldeep, Siraj help India bowl Sri Lanka out for 215</strong> - Kuldeep Yadav, who came in place of Yuzvendra Chahal, snared three wickets while giving away 51 runs; pacers Mohammed Siraj (3/30) and Umran Malik (2/48) shared five wickets between them</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Australian Open 2023 | Schedule, top seeds, statistics, prize money</strong> - Novak Djokovic will be competing at the Australian Open for the first time in two years when the tournament begins next week</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Australia cricket team pull out of Afghanistan series over Taliban crackdown on women</strong> - Australia were due to face Afghanistan in three games, which form part of the ICC Super League, in March following a tour to India.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Karnataka’s proposed tableau for Republic Day shortlisted</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>When will there be ‘China pe charcha’ in Parliament: Congress to PM Modi</strong> - Congress spokesperson Pawan Khera posed a set of questions to Mr. Modi while claiming that China continues to occupy Indian territory in Ladakh and that the status quo ante has not been restored even after three years</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Bid to destroy universities: Governor</strong> -</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Expedite acquisition of land for Hassan-Chikkamagaluru railway project: Gopalaiah</strong> -</p></li>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>France’s Brigitte Macron backs uniforms for schools</strong> - The former schoolteacher says she supports wearing a “simple and not drab” outfit.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Soledar devastation revealed in satellite images</strong> - Ruined buildings and cratered landscape in and around Soledar can be seen in new satellite images.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Sergei Surovikin removed as commander of Ukraine invasion force</strong> - The reshuffle comes as Russians claim to be making progress in eastern Ukraine after months of reverses.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Body of missing British aid worker found, Russian group claims</strong> - A Russian mercenary group says it has found the body of one of two missing Britons in Ukraine - the claim has not been verified.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Unexploded grenade removed from Ukrainian soldier’s chest</strong> - Two soldiers oversaw the operation to ensure the unexploded device was removed safely.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Neutron imaging revealed the secrets of this gold-plated medieval pendant</strong> - Pendant held 5 small silk and linen packets containing bones, likely religious relics. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1909221">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Microsoft events to show new slate of games—including Starfield</strong> - <em>Starfield</em> will be shown separately from the other games, though. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1909293">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>XBB.1.5: Still more questions than answers on risk of latest omicron subvariant</strong> - Amid heightened concern, XBB.1.5 risks have a “high degree of uncertainty.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1909381">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Microsoft will soon push Xbox owners into energy-saving Shutdown mode</strong> - Xboxes will soon have options for active hours and carbon-friendly downloads. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1909273">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Hundreds of SugarCRM servers infected with critical in-the-wild exploit</strong> - Attackers are using the exploit to infect on-premises servers with web shell backdoors. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1909328">link</a></p></li>
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The priest reads them their last rites, then the king orders the executioner to kill the physicist.
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The executioner offers the physicist two choices: would he like a hood on or off, and would he like to be executed face up or face down. The physicist replies, “I spent my whole life studying the heavens. I would like to face the sky, with the hood on like night!”
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The executioner positions the physicist and drops the blade…<br/> … and it stops inches from the physicists’ neck.
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The priest cries, “It’s a sign from God! This man is innocent! Set him free!”, so the king pardons him, and orders the mathematician executed next.
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The executioner offers the mathematician the same choices: would he like a hood on or off, and would he like to be executed face up or face down. The mathematician replies, “They all result in an equivalent state, but hood off face down is the most elegant solution!”
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The executioner positions the mathematician and drops the blade…<br/> … and it stops inches from the mathematician’s neck.
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The priest cries, “It’s a sign from God! This man is innocent! Set him free!”, so the king pardons him, and orders the engineer executed next.
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The executioner offers the engineer the same choices: would he like a hood on or off, and would he like to be executed face up or face down. The engineer replies, “I have always loved machines, and there is no more elegant a killing machine than the guillotine. I will spend my final moments marveling in its beauty!”
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The executioner positions the engineer and, as he’s about to drop the blade, the engineer shouts:
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“I see the problem!”
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Only the count from the conquered kingdom knew where the gold was hidden but he refused to tell.
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The conquerors took him to the dungeon, placed his head on the chopping block, and told him:
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“This is your last chance! Tell us where the gold is or off comes your head!”
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Beads of sweat slithered down the count’s face but still he said nothing. The captain gave the signal, and the executioner brought his hatchet down, but just as he did, the count’s courage broke and he blurted out: “No! Wait! I’ll tell you where gold’s hid-“
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But it was too late. The axe came down, off came the head, and no one got the gold.
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If it had 4 doors it would be a chicken sedan.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/badpuffthaikitty"> /u/badpuffthaikitty </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/109kici/why_does_a_chicken_coop_have_2_doors/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/109kici/why_does_a_chicken_coop_have_2_doors/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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Elixir
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/UnusualGenePool"> /u/UnusualGenePool </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10919x9/how_does_an_alchemist_get_his_wife_off/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/10919x9/how_does_an_alchemist_get_his_wife_off/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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They ignore me until they need my help.
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/3ffectivelyuseless"> /u/3ffectivelyuseless </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/109kxaa/people_treat_me_like_a_god/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/109kxaa/people_treat_me_like_a_god/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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