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How one hour of repetition became a luxury service—validation laundering at the bank

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Nov 09, 2025

A client spent almost an hour being told the exact same thing twice because she “wanted to hear it from someone else.” T...

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When 'seniority' is management's passive-aggressive Swiss Army knife

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Nov 08, 2025

You asked for the week off at Christmas for four straight years and each year your boss replies with the same defensive ...

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# The Beautiful Tragedy of a Student Who Demanded Independence and Got Exactly That

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Nov 07, 2025

Here's a clean little model of human decision-making: A student, let's call him Student X, wants to maximize his grade w...

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Let him work alone — he failed, and it was the most polite thing you could do

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Nov 06, 2025

A student demanded to work alone on a group programming project. That’s like a guy at a jazz band rehearsal saying, “I’l...

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PTO: 'Use It Or Lose It!' (Until You Read The Fine Print.)

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Nov 05, 2025

So, HR sends out the all-caps email, right? "USE IT OR LOSE IT!" Your vacation days, poof, gone by month's end. Serious ...

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The In-Store Online Purchase: A Retail Speedrun

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Nov 04, 2025

Observe, if you will, the modern retail landscape: a realm where the physical and digital often exist in a state of low-...

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# The Company Invented a Policy That Defeats Itself, So This Guy Read It

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Nov 03, 2025

Here is a model of corporate incentive design: The firm wants employees to use their vacation days good for morale, prev...

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“Fine—I'll Take Lunch Then”: A Speedrun Sabotaged by a Sandwich

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Nov 02, 2025

This is gonna be a quick one: my job’s unwritten rule was “when you’re done, go home,” so I speedran the shift by skippi...

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You asked for the exact recipe—here’s the exact disaster.

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Nov 01, 2025

Dana, the Portland boutique-bakery manager who "never actually baked anything herself but got promoted because she's goo...

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The Home Depot Cart Arbitrage, or: When Optimization Goes Sideways

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Oct 31, 2025

One might, upon first blush, imagine a retail environment to be a relatively straightforward system of inputs and output...

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