Maybe it sounds churlish. And I don’t mean to complain. I know my job requires me to spend 40 hours a week in restaurants with people I generally like, eating food that is seldom awful and sometimes grand, and having everything paid for by my employer. Nice work if you can get it. But if there’s one thing I miss about being a civilian diner, it’s the chance to get to know the people who feed and serve me. I’d love to be welcomed at places I admire and to be able to return to favorite dishes without the cloud of deadline: to be a regular in a restaurant. Read full article > >

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I’ll have the usual: Welcome to Tom Sietsema’s 2011 Fall Dining Guide

Sarah Gorrell was making small talk when she asked Akshay Kulkarni, whom she had just met at a party, how things were going. “Well, this is the absolute worst day of my career,” he responded. It wasn’t typical party banter, but Gorrell accepted a glass of wine from Kulkarni and listened as he told her about a rogue trader who had cost his employer, a French bank, $7.14 billion. “The bank’s going to be sold,” he remembers thinking. “I’m out of a job.” After that party in January 2008, they encountered each other in New York several more times, in group settings coordinated by Diplav Sapkota, a friend of Kulkarni’s who was in Gorrell’s public-health graduate program at Columbia University. Each time, Kulkarni found himself speaking with the same candor. Read full article > >

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A former national newspaper journalist who defrauded more than £370,000 from his employer – donating much of it to charity and a school – is jailed.

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Imagine that every week, decade after decade, you faithfully put aside part of your pay in a special piggy bank to provide for your golden years. But when you are ready to retire, your employer takes all your savings back. Or imagine that, instead of money, your employer deducts money from your paycheck in exchange for IOUs stamped: “Money to paid upon retirement.” But when you retire, your employer says no money has been put aside for you. You did nothing wrong, but you will not have a secure retirement. read more

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Of Pensions, and Piggybanks: The Challenges of Ensuring a Secure Retirement

Fashion fantasies-come-true at Los Angeles Tron pop up Disney continues to fan Tron fever with the release of several items of higher-end, wearable merchandise for men and women by designers like Rousseau , Hayden-Harnett and Rotenier that will be available all in one place beginning 19 November 2010 at the Tron Pop-Up Shop inside Los Angeles’ Royal/T . The concept allows Tron fans to become as authentically part of it as Tron main character Kevin Flynn did when he entered his employer’s mainframe in the original film. We’ve put together our favorite pieces from the women’s couture collection here. Among the dozens of retro-futuristic items available are jewelry pieces, like Rotenier’s sterling silver Lightcycle Cufflinks ($345). Tom Tom’s Derez Earrings have blue topaz stone ($155) and match a Grid Escape Ring ($195) and Light Runner Cuff ($265)—both gunmetal plated with mirrored lucite. It also has a Legacy necklace made with antique bronze chain ($395), exclusive to the pop-up store. Jerome Rousseau’s shiny Quorra Platform Sandal ($795) will perhaps be one of the most coveted items of them all, standing tall at five inches and unavailable outside of the pop up until February of next year. Those looking for more practical accessories can choose between the various bags and clutches by Hayden-Harnett ($129-$478), with matching cuffs ($98-$110). The shop closes on 23 December 2010, convenient for those in search of a last-minute gift for the holidays.

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Tron: Legacy Women’s Couture

The recent news item about a Connecticut worker fired for Facebook postings that annoyed her employer, like other accounts of employees sacked for private speech, was bound to draw a lot of attention. Americans hold First Amendment rights to free speech as a kind of sacrosanct birthright, and for many of us the idea that you can lose your job for expressing private thoughts away from work offends the core principle of freedom of expression.

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Opinion: Facebook vs. your job

A social worker involved in a County Fermanagh child sex abuse case did not do anything wrong, her employer says.

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Social worker ‘did nothing wrong’

Doctors remove 13 nails and five needles from a Sri Lankan housemaid who said her employer in Saudi Arabia hammered them into her body.

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