Read here about a woman suing because she signed up for a $100 data deal on a netbook and ended up with a bill for $5,000 her first month!!

From a Careerbuilder.com Survey

A few samples

• When applicant was offered food before the interview, he declined saying he didn’t want to line his stomach with grease before going out drinking.
• Candidate told the interviewer he wouldn’t be able to stay with the job long because he thought he might get an inheritance if his uncle died - and his uncle wasn’t "looking too good."
• Candidate asked the interviewer for a ride home after the interview.

Read it Here

When women are unemployed and looking for a job, the time they spend daily taking care of children nearly doubles. Unemployed men’s child care duties, by contrast, are virtually identical to those of their working counterparts, and they instead spend more time sleeping, watching TV and looking for a job, along with other domestic activities.

This NYTimes article is an analysis of the current sad fact that so very many people have been laid off or let go. The reality is that more recent job losses affect men than women, since as a whole more men work in construction and manufacturing than women - who tend to work in health care and education. I like how the writer delicately points the realities of household life (laid off dad spends time sleeping and watching TV, while a recently unemployed mom takes on more housework and time with the kids.) The greatest piece has to be that they have a 'time survey' to back this up with data. Well, I guess they've proven how lazy us guys can be at heart, especially when we've just been canned.

See also this followup story.

This post takes the analysis to the (delightful) extreme.

http://www.stickk.com will let you set up a contract with yourself to diet, quit smoking, be a nicer person, or whatever. Then you can build in incentives (like telling all your friends to enforce it) to make you follow through. Interesting idea. For some reason reminds me of the service out of San Francisco that helps tell the partners of people with newfound STDs anonymously email the bad news ...