Sentences with phrase «by friends at work»

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You don't necessarily have to prioritize quantity over quality, either: According to a meta - analysis by Gallup, one determinant of positive employee attitudes — in addition to having learning opportunities and adequate office supplies — is answering yes to the question «I have a best friend at work.»

Their future is highly influenced by the people they are meeting on a daily basis, including their friends at college, professors and first - time work associates.

More surprisingly, 62 % felt it was all right to be bothered at work by a friend with a personal question.

«In soliciting investments in the Fake Funds, CASPERSEN made the following false representations to investors, among others: in recognition for his prior work with Park Hill Group, CASPERSEN had been offered a «friends and family» investment allocation in a security that was allegedly offered by a private equity firm; CASPERSEN was personally investing in the security, and offering it to his family and a limited number of friends; the investment was a credit facility secured by a portfolio of assets owned by one of the Legitimate Funds; the investor would receive quarterly interest payments, ranging from 15 to 20 percent; the investment was practically risk - free, as the loaned funds would remain in a bank account; the investor could withdraw the principal at any time with 90 days» notice; and investor funds should be wired to one of the Fake Fund Accounts.

He realized he wanted to start his own company, and «almost arbitrarily» chose to move to Portland, Oregon, where he worked odd jobs until he landed at a digital marketing agency run by his friend Zeke Camusio.

During his second stint at Atari, in 1975, Jobs worked on a «Pong» knock - off called «Breakout» with the help of his longtime friend Wozniak, who did most of the engineering work on the video game, even though he wasn't being paid by Atari.

Dear friends and colleagues, This summer we saw an opportunity to provide greater clarity to entrepreneurs and our partners about the mission and focus of our work, which at times was obscured by references to «needles in haystacks» instead of our true inspiration, which is the gritty teamwork required to harvest hay from a field and stack it in a barn.

The two Facebook employees who worked alongside Kogan (who was using the surname Spectre at the time) on that 2015 study — which looked at international friendships as a class marker by examining Facebook users» friend networks — are named in the paper as Charles Gronin and Pete Fleming.

This is based on an in - depth study conducted by a good friend of mine who works at a public pension fund.

And my liberal friends look at that and they say, «If we had not created this halfway measure of health security, we would have what every other country has,» which seems to work well in other places, which is a government - run system where health protection insurance is guaranteed in some way or another, the exact structures differ, but by the state.

Bob Blakey worked at the Calgary Herald in the 1980s and, by coincidence, penned a column about the $ 1 home sale phenomenon in the paper's 1983 Christmas Eve edition (a close friend was forced to sell his newly built home in the city's Shawnessy neighbourhood for a buck).

Gallup found that close work friendships boost employee satisfaction by 50 % and people with a best friend at work are seven times more likely to engage fully in their work.

And the methods — calling a person by his or her name or looking at the situation from the other's point of view — work in business and in personal life with family and friends.

I know about Rush because I have a friend who is surrounded by listeners of his at home and at work and he calls me regularly to ask if what he was told by friends / family is true, because they heard it on Rush's show.

And sometimes my friends help me out at work and I am amazed by their resilience.

And there shall in that time be rumours of things going astray, and there will be a great confusion as to where things really are, and nobody will really know where lieth those little things with the sort of raffia work base, that has an attachment... at this time, a friend shall lose his friends's hammer and the young shall not know where lieth the things possessed by their fathers that their fathers put there only just the night before around eight o'clock

But I also want to say, if you had been here (I'm in Birmingham) and read some of the stories of people's kids being killed by this storm (so many had lost power already by earlier storms and had no idea F4 and F5 tornodoes were about to hit, and their kids were at friends» houses... and then those friends» houses were totally destroyed, and several parents lost all of their kids - I also know of several people who lost their wives AND all of their kids because they were at work while their family was at home)... anyways, if you could read some of these stories, who are you guys to tell them that their loved ones are not going off to a better place?

Episode 2: 02 Track 2 In this episode, Laura, the facilitator, at the politically correct Community School is interrupted in her attempt to put the x over X-mas by a visit from Sarah Parker - Drew, the major donor, and her friend Ronald Cordon - Smith (a fan of Laura and her work there).

Among the most moving of his stories is his account of dancing at a wedding with a lovely female friend and simply having no awareness of her «sexual value,» the very apt term employed by Blessed John Paul II in his early work Love and Responsibility.

With stunning consistency, virtually every indicator of civic engagement currently available shows the same pattern of increase followed by stagnation and decline — newspaper reading; TV news watching; attending political meetings; petition signing; running for public office; attending public meetings; serving as an officer or committee member in any local clubs or organizations; writing letters to the editor; participating in local meetings of national organizations; attending religious services; socializing informally with friends, relatives or neighbors; attending club meetings; joining unions; entertaining friends at home; participating in picnics; eating the evening meal with the whole family; going out to bars, nightclubs, discos or taverns; playing cards; sending greeting cards; attending parties; playing sports; donating money as a percentage of income; working on community projects; giving blood.

It is a strange and engrossing work, written in a manner that many have compared to Tolstoy: stories within stories, huge chunks of raw material gleaned from the newspapers and agitprop pamphlets of the time, seemingly endless speeches by would - be rulers in the doomed Duma, and all against the background of a weak and ineffectual Tsar dominated by his wife and «our Friend,» Rasputin, with Lenin seething and scheming in Switzerland, waiting for his time to come round at last.

Through the great work being done by my friend Jennifer Bryson — who is a devout Christian and a great American patriot who spent two years as an interrogator at Guantanamo — I have met hundreds of religiously observant Muslims over the past several years and many are now my close friends.

Even on the most basic, day - to - day level, we were created with personal tipping points — an awareness that we're inching closer to becoming burned out at work, or hurt one too many times by a friend or family member.

The parables disclose with what pleasure and tolerance he surveyed the broad scene of human activity: the merchant seeking pearls; the farmer sowing his fields; the real - estate man trying to buy a piece of land in which he had secret reason to believe a treasure lay buried; the dishonest secretary, who had been given notice, making friends against the evil day among his employer's debtors by reducing their obligations; the five young women sleeping with lamps burning while the bridegroom tarried and unable to attend the marriage because their sisters who had had foresight enough to bring additional oil refused to lend them any; the rich man whose guests for dinner all made excuses; the man comfortably in bed with his children who gets up at midnight to help his importunate neighbor only because he despairs of getting rid of him otherwise; the king who is out to capture a city; the man who built his house upon the sand and lost it in the first storm of wind and rain; the queer employer who pays all of his men the same wage whether they have worked the whole day or a single hour; the great lord who going to a distant land entrusts his property to his three servants and judges them by the success of their investments when he returns; the shepherd whose sheep falls into a ditch; the woman with ten pieces of silver who, losing one, lights the candle and sweeps diligently till she finds it, and makes the finding of it the occasion of a celebration in which all of her neighbors are invited to share — and how long such a list might be!

«I began to work for others»; — «I had more tender feeling for my family and friends»; — «I spoke at once to a person with whom I had been angry»; — «I felt for every one, and loved my friends better»; — «I felt every one to be my friend»; — these are so many expressions from the records collected by Professor Starbuck.

and then read His word and just trust in His finished work at the cross and your life will start to make sense, this world on the other hand will never make sense but one things for sure you will no longer be confused by it, instead victorious over it and true friends and family will be there once again

I found in Ford far more than I had hoped for: a writer who, by his own account, had «apprenticed» himself to America; whose stories and characters so spring from their landscapes and physical situations as to personify the spirit of the motels, roadside bars, lakes and highways where we encounter them; and who may well be, as his friend Raymond Carver (who died last summer) said, «sentence for sentence... the best writer at work in this country today.»

As of this writing, the latest piece on Verdicts is a reflection on the life and work of the French Catholic philosopher Maurice Blondel, penned by Santiago Ramos, my friend and colleague at Boston College.

Last weekend a friend I decided to neglect our school work and go for a hike in the snow followed by dinner and a movie at my house.

Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffles Last weekend a friend I decided to neglect our school work and go for a hike in the snow followed by dinner and a movie at my house.

An article publish by Mind Tools reported that Gallup published a study about the value of having good friends (or at least one good friend) at work.

This recipe was developed by my dear friend Regan Burns when we worked together at CHOW.com.

These tasty wings are a mash - up of two great recipes from work, a baked chicken wing recipe from my friends at Cook's Country, and a killer sauce developed by my CI teammate Andrea Geary for incredible Korean Fried Chicken Wings.

Yet there seems something strangely incestuous about the fact that both Dionne Knight, who was paid over # 20,000 by the club — for so called work on procurement, which was seemingly not made public at the time, and her present boy friend, Ian Tompkins, now a West Ham employee who worked on the stadium project, both worked for Newham council.

Just been informed by a friend who works at Luton airport who confirms Benzema's private jet due to land 7 pm tonight #afc #WelcomeBenzema

Kathy Abbott, IBCLC Photo: Jen Barber & Daisy by Chris Davison Recently a new mom who was on her first day back at work put out a desperate plea to her Facebook friends.

I coped by always scheduling a visit with a friend or family member while my husband was at work or school (he was finishing his degree at the time.)

Started by friends Sarah and Neta, from Barrie, Ontario, these girls worked hard to bring a stylish, reliable, and functional diaper, and all at unbelievably affordable prices!

by Claire Latham The day that I found out I was pregnant with my first and only child so far, I took the test at work with a close friend who was pregnant with her second child.

The majority of my own friends who are childless have done a pretty great job of not judging my parenting choices, but when I worked at a particular retail establishment where many of the full - time employees where childless (by choice), I encountered some strange moments of judgement and shame.

A quick reminder: Art of Political Campaigning two - day training event is coming up next week Put on by our friends at Campaigns & Elections magazine, it's an in - depth exploration of practical political topics, with sessions delivered by people who do this work every day.

Put on by our friends at Campaigns & Elections magazine, it's an in - depth exploration of practical political topics, with sessions delivered by people who do this work every day.

«The stimulus that Election Day provides by giving people information, imposing social pressure to encourage them to vote, giving them social rewards from seeing neighbors and friends at a polling place — all the things that happen on a traditional Election Day — tend to be diluted,» said Barry Burden, a political science professor at the University of Wisconsin - Madison, who worked on the AJPS study.

Garcia was in the city for a fund - raiser last night organized by de Blasio's friends at the Working Families Party, and his supporters were eager to make the connection, to see Garcia's surprise forcing of an April 7 runoff against Rahm Emanuel as the latest manifestation of a grassroots wave building across the nation.

Cunningham now works at DKC, a firm founded by Andrew's friend Dan Klores.

By the end of my degree, I was lucky enough to have found out by word of mouth (I had a friend already working there) about a vacancy as a clinical exercise physiologist at University College LondoBy the end of my degree, I was lucky enough to have found out by word of mouth (I had a friend already working there) about a vacancy as a clinical exercise physiologist at University College Londoby word of mouth (I had a friend already working there) about a vacancy as a clinical exercise physiologist at University College London.

You might choose to add a fundraiser to an existing event, create a new fundraising event at your work, club or with family and friends, or be sponsored by your friends, family and co-workers to complete an activity.

Who she is: Butler is one half of blogging duo Double Trouble Running, co-owned by friend Gillian Power, who met at work before making the move overseas.

Stop all stalking — peering at Facebook, driving by his work, or asking friends for information.

Now at this point you can leave them all awe - struck by lying to them and telling them it's all about hard work and sweating it out at the gym, or, as you carefully place another spoonful of that tantalizing ice cream in your mouth and catch a glimpse of a hot girl checking you out as she walks by, you can tell them the truth, in which case it will seem so easy, they won't believe you and wonder who this enigmatic friend / family member really is.