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Thank you!!! Sadly, the Alien Abduction Festival is now over & all good alien big kids are now tucked safe in their beds. Please click here for the quickie wrap-up!

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Telling your boss off - tactfully - may be the secret to a happier work life – according to a recent article. The Report on Business in the Globe and Mail notes that not only are employees fed up with their bosses, but they’d rather quit than talk it out. "Communication skills" won’t be appearing on the job applications of these employees!

Workers spend over 50 hours cleaning out their workplace junk mail folder each year, says a UK study on e-mail at work. Imagine if your household junk drawer got that much attention!

In an era when many workers prefer to shoot off an e-mail than pick up the phone, the survey uncovered the truth: so much e-mail leaves workers frustrated; slowing their productivity. In fact, dealing with evil e-mail monsters can consume up to 50% of the workday, leaving little time to get down to business.

From dirty money, to fake money, to fast money, to funny money - human beings are fascinated with the dollar bills, coins and cards that let us accumulate wealth and perhaps happiness.  But how much money is out there? Who has it? Where did cash come from? What's in a bill, or a coin? Find out everything you ever wanted to know about the mysteries of money... plus the weird and wacky cash facts that will leave you eating, sleeping and breathing dollar bills.

Billionaires

What is the “hottest” trend of the 21st century? Nope, it’s not adopting children from foreign lands, or a new line of over-sized purses with a four digit price tag, and it’s not going to rehab for some R&R. Those trends are long out, and pushing its way into our lives is... drum roll please... being green! Global warming is burning a hole in workplace wallets - but it doesn't have to.

The 2008 Sleep in American Poll by The Sleep Foundation shows that employee yawns are common in the American work world – forcing one third of company keyboards to double as pillows.

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Joke Sign for Captive Office Workers

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Biohazard at the Happy Worker Office

Indian Call Centre outsourcer 24 x 7 announced its new program to invite new grads of its training program for a workplace integration tour. The catch? You’ve gotta bring your parents along.

India’s national newspaper, The Hindu announced this week that 24 x 7 will integrate all candidate’s parents into the selection process as a part of a strategy to increase employee retention rates. (Stats show that Indian call centres experience turnover of 50% or more)

The "interests and hobbies" section on a CV often includes outdoor activities, coaching baseball… and hiring prostitutes? For resort employee Neil Jorgensen of Kalona, Iowa, hiring prostitutes may be a prerequisite for evening and weekend fun – but what happens when the party moves to the workplace?