Will Black Friday be Green Friday?

Set your alarms. Pull out the comfy shoes. And put your checkbook in a holster.
As our nation’s army of retail and restaurant workers prepares for its front lines to be stormed by early morning shoppers, we’ll get an answer to a huge, lingering question: Will it be enough?
Stores’ Black Friday bargains are reportedly up more than [...]

Gobble, gobble…Turkey Day workers are a gas!

When you’re checking out the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on Thursday morning, and suffering through the incessant, scripted banter of the network talking heads, think about this: Where the heck does the helium for those massive balloons come from?
It comes from The Linde Group, a 50,000-strong global gases company and one of the world’s biggest [...]

Good news, bad news for part-time jobs

At part-timejobs.com, we hate that stupid cliché that instructs us: No news is good news. But even so, that seems to be the case with some recent headlines about the world of part-time jobs.
In October, the number of people working part-time gigs surged to 6.7 million, an increase of 645,000. It seems good, right? All we [...]

Fake part-time jobs: The Leftorium

Venerable TV anti-sitcom “The Simpsons” has given us plenty of fake innovations that we secretly wished were real. From beer-swilling superhero Duffman to a Saturday morning chock full of “Itchy & Scratchy” shorts, Springfield seemed like a sweet place to visit.
Some of these fictional institutions actually have real-life counterparts, such as Ned Flanders small business [...]

Presidential race spotlight: Joe Somebody

Today Joe is the most famous plumber in the world. You could say the worker and business owner has plunged into fame.
Joe Wurzelbacher is the Ohio plumber who “starred” in the final presidential debate between Sen. John McCain and Sen. Barack Obama. His name was brought up more than 20 times by the two presidential [...]