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28 March 2024

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Nasty colleagues earn more than 'agreeable' workers

BRITAIN: In this case, nice guys do finish last. A study of the link between personality and wages found that ‘agreeable’ workers earn significantly less than their more hard-nosed colleagues, Daily Mail reported.

The pay parity between nasty and nice men is almost £6,100 a year, when broken up gender-wise.

The study, called ‘Do nice guys – and gals – really finish last?’, examined levels of ‘agreeableness’ attributed to different people and compared it to their pay. Agreeableness was defined as a tendency toward warmth, kindness and co-operation with others, said the daily.

Disagreeable ladies earn 5 per cent more than those of the same sex who are more willing to seek common ground.

Researchers also found some worse facts. Those viewed as more agreeable are less likely to get ajob, researchers found.

Professor Beth Livingston, of Cornell University, New York, who led the study, said managers were rewarding nasty behaviour.

‘Nice guys are getting the shaft,’ she told the Wall Street Journal. ‘The problem is, many managers often don’t realise they reward disagreeableness.’

 

Pregnant at 15, mum delighted


BRITAIN: Parents are outraged after a schoolgirl who posed for controversial bikini images for a magazine at the age of 12 is now pregnant at 15. The mother of the teenager is delighted at the turn of events.


Parents have blasted Janis for fuelling her daughter's obsession with a modelling career, reported The Sun. The mother also allowed her daughter's 17-year-old boyfriend to spend the night under her own roof.

There's a reason why Janis is delighted. The daily reveals, "Jobless single mum Janis, 48, said she was delighted because the council will now have to give her a bigger house."

She told the tabloid: "Our three-bedroom place was already overcrowded with her sisters Coco and Ritzy, her brother Tarot, Soya's boyfriend Jake and one of her sister's babies.

"Once the new baby comes the council will have to find us a place with four or five bedrooms.

"We've already started packing. Soya's very much against abortion and there was never any doubt she would keep her baby.

"I'm sure she'll make a wonderful mum and will teach her children discipline like I have."
 
Ex-school secretary Janis, who is now on benefits, claims she is a strict but understanding mum, said the daily.

 

Woman stuck in bath for 30 hours - lawsuit

ILLINOIS: A woman has sued a firm that manufactured the bathtub she was unable to emerge from a bathtub for more than 30 hours.

"That was the lousiest $12,000 I ever put out," Anna Cullen was quoted as saying by Chicago Sun-Times.
"I ended up in the hospital for four days, and then in a nursing home for three months," the paper learnt.

Cullen filed a formal suit against Premier Care in Bathing almost a year after the September 2010 incident.

"As the tub was filling with water, she fell and became wedged in the front of the tub," the lawsuit states, according to the Sun-Times. When she then tried to pull the chain connected to the drain stopper, it broke. It was her second time using the newly-installed tub.

A video testimonial for one of Premier Care's walk-in tubs features a happy customer declaring, "I could have stayed in there until I became a prune," the paper said.

Unfortunately for Cullen, she stayed in the tub until her daughter found her unconscious with "significant injuries to her skin," according to the suit, which was filed in Cook County and seeks over $50,000.

 

Forgot to feed dog, 12-yr-old beaten to death


LAHORE:  A woman in Pakistan beat her domestic help to death after he forgot to serve her dog a meal.

Sadia Asif had asked Taqi Usman to serve food to her pet. However, upon her return, she discovered that the dog was hungry and had not been fed.

In a fit of rage, Asif locked Usman in a room and severely tortured him, aninvestigator said.

Asif was arrested after Usman's relatives filed a complaint with police.

 

Mother takes son to police for one pound theft


London:  A mother took a firm stand and handed over her 14-year-old son to the police after watching him on CCTV stealing a chewing gum packet worth one pound.

The aprents dragged the teenager to the police station to confess his crime, the Daily Express reported.

He admitted stealing the gum from the store in Manchester city centre.

"Several images were taken of people running out of the shop. His mum saw them and took him to Stretford police station," the daily quoted the prosecutor informing the Manchester magistrates.

The defence lawyer told the court, "His mother and father were, quite frankly, disgusted.

"He's not in trouble at school, he realises what he's done and the effect it has had."