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No Matter How Often You Fly, You Probably Don’t Know What Attendants Really Do.

Be nice to flight attendants. For the love of all that is good, please be nice to them. They have to put up with cocky fliers, turbulence, crying babies, terrorist threats, and ascots. They have to smile cheerfully through it all and pretend everything is fine and dandy. Newsflash: everything is not fine and dandy. However, it does make for an entertaining read, as service jobs often do. Heather Poole, a flight attendant with a 15-year career under her belt, recently wrote for Mental Floss about 10 secrets the […]

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They Just Needed A Chance, And These City Workers Helped Them In The Best Way

Every year, thousands of college graduates feel the harsh reality that comes along with sending out hundreds of job applications and getting one or two interviews in return. If professional life is that rough on people who are fresh out of college (and likely being supported by Mom and Dad in the interim), imagine how hard it would be to find a job after you’ve lost everything. While many jump to negative conclusions about homeless people, the fact of the matter is that any one of us […]

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