Anyone who works from home or is a stay-at-home parent knows the drill—because you’re home, others think you’re
obviously available to run their errand, pick up their kid or handle other chores.
The Wall Street Journal has turned out a nice story about the issue, saying growing numbers of Americans, now roughly
35 million, work at least partly from home. And they’re finding that others think of them differently, as “doormats,”
as one woman put it.
Some at-homers are venting their spleens online, others are just saying no, and still others are starting to charge.
It isn’t as if people at home don’t want to help. Many do. But they feel used by people who leave home to do
their jobs.
If you work at home, how are you handling requests? If you “go to work,” are you guilty of asking too many favors?
What about perceptions of home workers? Are their endeavors considered as less important?
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Ameriana Bank took over Westfield Farmers Market for 2013 and it is held in their parking lot, corner of 32 and Carey road, 5 to 8. I am selling soap and candles there. great market!
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B&T certainly has enough of our taxpayer dollars to do this thanks to Mayor Ballard. Given the firm's exceedingly poor reputation in the legal community, the basement would seem a better option.
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Should read MAY hire 20 people.
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Not a good location for a 300,000 home. 10th Street fumes, buses, noise. Max for this location 150,000.
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The state constitution also does not say that the majority has a right to quorum, nor that the minority is required to allow them quorum. In fact, denial of quorum has been a parliamentary maneuver since the establishment of the first parliaments in the early 1600s. The right to deny quorum (and the requirement fore quorum) are to prevent exactly what happened in Indiana: A tyrannical majority pushing through odious, objectionable legislation. Denial of quorum is totally legitimate, and lest we forget, a tactic the GOP has employed many, many times to ensure their issues weren't given short shrift. By allowing the majority to impose "fines" on the minority for exercising the authority the constitution grants them (to deny quorum,) they are violating the constitution.
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