Today, Dec. 5, has been declared a National Day of Mourning for former President George H. W. Bush, who died November 30 at the age of 94. The state funeral will take place today at Washington National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. A national day of mourning is a day marked by mourning and memorial activities […]
WEDNESDAY THANKSGIVING FACTS
Start a conversation with a relative you see only once or twice a year, and impress your family members and friends at the holiday table when you share some of these interesting facts about Thanksgiving ! 1. The first Thanksgiving was actually a three-day celebration. Governor William Bradford organized the feast, inviting the Plymouth colonists’ […]
WEDNESDAY WORKFACT: Things You May Not Know About “White Christmas”
{excerpted from the Good Housekeeping article online} The beloved holiday classic has some fascinating back stories: “Sisters” wasn’t part of the script. Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye’s comedy act “dressed up like a dame” wasn’t originally in the story. They were goofing around, though, and director Michael Curtiz found it so funny that he wrote […]
THROWBACK THURSDAY: Remember Fax Machines?
The history of the fax machine goes back over 160 years. Alexander Bain is credited with inventing the first fax machine patented in England in 1843. “Bains Telgraph” was simply two pens attached to pendulums connected by a telegraph wire. The pendulums passed over chemically treated paper and made stains when an electrical charge was […]
WEDNESDAY WORKFACT: Lifetime Work Statistics
{excerpted from fairygodboss online} People only spend 328 days socializing with friends, on average, over the course of a lifetime. However, the average person spends 13 years and two months at work, according to one analysis from HuffPost. If that seems startling, hang on to your hat. Here are a few other lifetime work statistics […]
TIP TUESDAY: A Time to be Thankful for Good Employees
{excerpted from an articlew by Julie A. Moore, Attorney, Steptoe & Johnson, PLLC for the HR Daily Advisor} All too often, the employment law advice that we provide as practitioners focuses on issues that relate to problem employees. You know these folks they’re the troublemakers, the harassers, the pot-stirrers, the chronically absent, and the […]
TIP TUESDAY: Why Your
Kevin Entze, a police officer from Washington state, knows it all could have been different. Entze lost a GOP primary in a state House race by one vote out of more than 11,700 cast. And then he found out that one of his fellow reserve officers forgot to mail in his ballot. “He left his […]
WEDNESDAY WORKFACT: Unemployment Low, Wages Rising
U.S. employers added 250,000 jobs and unemployment remained low at 3.7 percent in October but wage growth is the best news for workers, with pay growth topping 3 percent year over year for the first time since the Great Recession. Hourly wages climbed 3.1 percent from a year ago, while weekly pay increased by 3.4 […]
THROWBACK THURSDAY: First ¢ Registration
On this day in 1870, the Averill Chemical Paint Company of NYC registered a “trade-mark for liquid paint.” It was the first official trademark in U.S. history and was filed under an act passed earlier that year which was eventually declared unconstitutional but the Lanham Act of 1946 established the current system of trademark protection. […]
THROWBACK THURSDAY: First Labor Organization Established
The first labor organization Colonial America was authorized on this day in 1648 when the shoemakers of Boston are permitted to “assemble and meete together in Boston, at such time and times as they shall appoynt, who being so assembled, they, or the greatest number of them, shall have powre to chuse a master […]