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I don't know one single person that doesn't have at least a photo of family, friends, or pets hanging on their cubicle wall. If not a photo, maybe some other pictures or they have something else personal on their desk or somewhere else in their cube.

Well, that's how it was at Sigma-Aldrich - until last year. Last year, management decided it was necessary that employees remove everything personal from their cubicle. The reason for that is, at least that's what I heard, that customers could possibly stroll up and down the cubicle aisles and be offended or find it awkward to look at Sigma's employee's personal belongings. Really??

Where you ever struggling to come up with excuses for enjoying a lazy day at home rather than going to work? Maybe CareerBuilder.com’s annual survey on absenteeism gives you some ideas.

The survey shows 33 percent of workers have played hooky from the office, calling in sick when they were well at least once this year. While the majority of employers said they typically don’t question the reason for the absence, 31 percent reported they have checked up on an employee who called in sick and 18 percent said they have fired a worker for missing work without a legitimate excuse. The nationwide survey included more than 6,800 workers and 3,300 employers.

Unless your boss is a golf fanatic or you work for someone like Callaway, your employer probably doesn't want you to know that the 2010 Masters golf tournament is being broadcast live online.

This probably wouldn't be such big news if it weren't the first tournament Tiger Woods will play in since his 5-month absence following revelations of his personal affair.

Chalk one up for the little guy.

After nearly two years of investigation and hell for Anthony Araujo, the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration found that New Jersey Transit violated the Federal Railroad Safety Act when it retaliated against him for reporting he had post-traumatic stress and needed time off.

That’s the total that seven women racked up after they broke out in a brawl on the day before Easter in where else, but Wal-mart. According to the report, candy eggs, chocolate rabbits, and Peeps were the unsuspecting victims of this tragedy as they were flung through Wal-mart by the two groups of women.