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		<title><![CDATA[Despair Inc.™:  Why Workplace “Communication” Is Overrated]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despair Inc.™:  Why Workplace "Communication" Is OverratedWhat now?THANK YOU FOR THE CLARIFICATION, but you offer no way of approaching this to find the unity, the harmony, the reconciliation or anything close to that. This is useful for knowing that people don't like you but what now? You offer no...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 07:32:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Despair Inc.™: Problem Employees? It’s Not You, It’s Them]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despair Inc.™: Problem Employees? It's Not You, It's ThemScary, very scary......that 75% of respondents didn't get it.RE: Despair Inc.™: Problem Employees? It's Not You, It's ThemBrilliant, accurate and necessary.Not the main problemWhile such employees are in the business world, they are by no means the personality types that are the...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Dec 2007 05:48:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Despair Inc.™: Battle Bureaucracy with Fake “Crises” and Caffeine]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Despair Inc.™: Battle Bureaucracy with Fake "Crises" and CaffeineUnbelievable!Is this a joke!? Is this guy serious!? I feel like I just watched a spoof on uTube! The things that he says in this thing is outrageous. Yeah, let's just pump our slave workers with caffeine, force them to burn themselves...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:48:00 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Despair Inc.™:  Why Workplace “Communication” Is Overrated]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of "The Art of Demotivation," the source of workplace conflict is often misdiagnosed. What's seen as a simple "misunderstanding" or "failure to communicate" really runs much deeper: Your coworkers don't actually like you. Kersten helps clarify the situation by translating what they're...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:24:44 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Despair Inc.™: Battle Bureaucracy with Fake “Crises” and Caffeine]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[If your company is at all established and successful, it's probably already become a bloated, uninspiring workplace, says leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of "The Art of Demotivation." Here's how to take back your company by overcaffeinating your workers, limiting their contact with the outside world, and teaching them...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2007 17:16:46 -0800</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Despair Inc.™: Problem Employees? It’s Not You, It’s Them]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of "The Art of Demotivation," shows how to manage three types of problem employees. Whether you're dealing with the "perpetually offended employee," the "aggrieved superstar," or the "egomaniac," the answer is simple: they need to be grateful for what they have.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[An honest org chart]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[An honest org charthilariousthe guy in the green shirt cracks me up. i'm implementing every suggestion.RE: An honest org chartIS this some sort of joke?  Is it a Haloween thing? Where do the actual "workers" fall on this "salary sensitve" Org chart; oh they must be the DNA sized...]]></description>
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