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ELMWOOD PLACE, Ohio (UPI) – A young Ohio man was so caught up in text messaging as he walked across a railroad track he failed to notice a train bearing down on him.

Zachariah Smith, 18, waited until a southbound CSX train passed, The Cincinnati Enquirer reported. He did not notice the northbound Norfolk Southern train passing by immediately afterward.

Smith was struck by the second train and was seriously injured.

Elmwood Place Mayor Richard Ellison said he arrived at the scene immediately after the accident and talked to three of the five people who saw it. They said the engineer was “blowing his horn like mad” when he saw the young man.

“The only way the train could have missed him was if it could make a turn,” Ellison said.

The lights and gates at the crossing were in working order, witnesses said.

Copyright 2007 by United Press International

12-21-07

Many American workers think they have labored for the world’s worst boss but have you ever been forced to stay at your desk while the office burned?

Well, that’s the workplace tale of woe a help-desk employee submitted to the second annual AFL-CIO “My Bad Boss” contest. It was good enough to win “Steaming Mad” the “Most Outrageous Story” grand prize Tuesday, the Los Angeles Times reported.

But even that would have to take second place to a worker — pseudonym Pete Yonski — who said he has cancer yet his heartless boss threw away his disability benefits paperwork.

Salving those jaw-dropping job wounds a bit were the prizes they won: a week-long condo vacation and $1,000 toward airfare for the cancer patient and a week at the Royal Hotel Vegas and $500 in airfare for the guy who worked in the hot seat.

Six runners-up get “Bad Boss Survival Kits” — earplugs to tune out yelling bosses and “The Very Best of Aretha Franklin” CD featuring her hit song “Respect.”

“While this contest is partly a fun way to vent, it also shines a not-very-flattering light on the American workplace,” said Karen Nussbaum, executive director of the union’s Working America lobbying arm.

Copyright 2007 by United Press International

PHILADELPHIA Aug. 21 (UPI) – Being a bad boss, it seems, isn’t much of a hindrance to upward career mobility, a survey conducted in the United States and Australia purports to show.

Researchers from Bond University in Australia, who presented their findings at the Academy of Management’s annual meeting in Philadelphia this month, said 45 percent of workers surveyed reported having had a particularly “bad leader” as a boss who nevertheless was promoted. Another 19 percent said bad bosses suffered no negative ramifications for their lack of leadership ability and only 13 percent were weeded out of the organization, Human Resources Executive Online reports.

The academic researchers found the results “remarkably disturbing.”

Their online survey of 240 Americans and Australians was part of a larger study that showed one-third of those surveyed reported that working for bad bosses caused them stress, fatigue, insomnia and bad dreams.

The results came as no surprise to John Hoover, who wrote “How to Work for an Idiot: Survive and Thrive Without Killing Your Boss.”

“The more incompetent someone is, the faster their career takes off,” Hoover said.

Copyright 2007 by United Press International

I was at the checkout of a K-Mart. The clerk rang up $46.64 charge. I gave her a fifty dollar bill. She gave me back $46.64. I gave the money back to her and told her that she had made a mistake in MY favor. She became indignant and informed me she was educated and knew what she was doing, and returned the money again. I gave her the money back again…same scenario! I departed the store with the $46.64. This actually happened in Austin at MoPac Boulevard and Parmer Lane.

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I walked into a Starbucks with a buy-one-get-one-free coupon for a Grande Latte. I handed it to the girl and she looked over at a little chalkboard that said “buy one-get one free.”

“They’re already buy-one-get-one-free,” she said, “so I guess they’re both free” She handed me my free lattes and I walked out the door.