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		<title>&#8216;There is no golden ticket&#8217; and other scary ideas Generation Y must confront in the recession</title>
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The Toronto Star&#8217;s front page was all about Generation Y this past Saturday with the playfully titled &#8220;Generation Why Me?&#8221;
Basically, it&#8217;s about how everyone in their 20s is screwed.
First, we meet Angelika and Lucasz:
Angelika, 26, was full time on the door line at Chrysler, where her parents still work. Lucasz, 27, made moulds as a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yworking.com/news/there-is-no-golden-ticket-and-other-scary-ideas-generation-y-must-confront-in-the-recession/</link>
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		<title>Five Observations on Telecommuting</title>
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I&#8217;ve been telecommuting frequently for about a year and a half now. Some weeks I&#8217;ll do only one or two days at home, and the rest at the office. Other times, I&#8217;ll spend very few days in the office. There&#8217;s no fixed schedule and it depends on things like meetings and events. For the most [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yworking.com/attitude/five-observations-on-telecommuting/</link>
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		<title>Sorry but I might just twitter during your presentation</title>
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Twitter, the micro-blogging service that sounds stupid until you use it, is hitting the mainstream, with all sorts of celebrities and politicians piling on. (See also my big Twitter at Work post.) 
The celebrities are amusing but benign. The politicians are more interesting, but already their twittering is causing controversy. They&#8217;re being accused of not [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yworking.com/technology/sorry-but-i-might-just-twitter-during-your-presentation/</link>
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		<title>Graduating this year? Three mistakes to avoid</title>
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Update: This post was featured on Brazen Careerist, where it got a bunch of really interesting comments. Check it out.
There&#8217;s a recession all over the world. Which is nice, because I like it when we all have something in common. I&#8217;ve written about the recession a few times. I&#8217;ll write about it some more. Much [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yworking.com/news/graduating-this-year-three-mistakes-to-avoid/</link>
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		<title>Need a résumé-building skill? Learn to write</title>
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Hey, have you heard? There might be a recession! Maybe even a depression!. And as much fun as that kind of thing might be for those who miss the convenience of the bindle and loved old silent films where men in ratty suits cut up old boots for supper, for the 3.6 million people who [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yworking.com/education/need-a-resume-building-skill-learn-to-write/</link>
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		<title>Gen Y &amp; IT Policies: The IT World Canada Interviews</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the things I missed during my month of sickness was the publication of a series of five articles from IT World Canada about a new report called Freedom to Compute: The Empowerment of Generation Y. The articles&#8217; author, Shane Schick, interviewed me via phone for portions of the articles, and I think he [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yworking.com/culture/gen-y-it-policies-the-it-world-canada-interviews/</link>
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		<title>Stupid HR Policy Tricks: Here&#8217;s how many days you can be sick this year</title>
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I&#8217;ve been sick for a month. Ever since I vomited on New Year&#8217;s Eve. This wasn&#8217;t your normal ring-in-the-new-year ten-shots-of-tequila vomiting, though: this was hardcore &#8220;I am mostly sober &#8211; why is this happening to me?&#8221;-type vomiting. It was the first major sign that something wasn&#8217;t right.
So I tried to ignore the fact that my [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yworking.com/at-work/stupid-hr-policy-tricks-heres-how-many-days-you-can-be-sick-this-year/</link>
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		<title>yworking.com in 2008</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having finished off the calendar year 2008, here are some of my favourite posts from the past year:
Ten Workplace Changes Generation Y will demand
Five Steps Toward Building a Better Grocery Store
&#8216;Voluntourism&#8217; and Generation Y: Heart in the Right Place
Five Non-sensical things people do with email
Five Barriers to the Paperless Office
Full Boreout
The Modern Workplace: Creation and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yworking.com/meta/yworkingcom-in-2008/</link>
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		<title>Saving the economy by cutting the Christmas party</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The Boston Globe has an article today about a man who plays Santa Claus every year. Apparently, due to the scary specter of recession (more on that here), companies have been cutting back on Christmas parties this year. And that doesn&#8217;t mean good things for the man who would be Santa Claus:
Business has been especially [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://yworking.com/news/saving-the-economy-by-cutting-the-christmas-party/</link>
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		<title>You want exceptions to be made? Be exceptional</title>
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A simple thought for this week: if you&#8217;re a young worker coming into an organization with policies &#8212; whether they involve start time, sick days, internet use, music playing, dress code, whatever &#8212; that you don&#8217;t agree with, don&#8217;t just demand that exceptions be made for you because that&#8217;s the way you like to work. [...]]]></description>
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