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Moral dilemma of cheating at work
Ask a Manager is an online advice column for those who are tremendously un-self-aware. An office worker writes: "I have a friend and co-worker who is a gifted writer. She finished her first novel earlier this year and a publisher has offered her an advance that will let her quit our boring job and write full-time, which has always been her dream. I'm happy for her but morally uneasy knowing that at least 90 per cent of the book was written while she was on the clock. She has small children and a home business and has admitted she doesn't have any other time to write. I would hate to destroy her dream but it also feels wrong that our company may be being cheated out of a financial interest in what could turn into a big thing. Should I inform our supervisor or not?"
Beards and when to shave them off
Have we reached peak beard? Researchers in Australia used beards to test a theory that some features become more desirable when fewer people have them. They showed women sets of pictures of men: cleanshaven, with stubble, or bearded, and had them rate the men's attractiveness. Men with beards scored better when they were surrounded by cleanshaven faces, and vice versa, the research found.
