<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><!-- generator="WordPress/2.9.2" -->
<rss version="0.92">
<channel>
	<title>save the assistants</title>
	<link>http://savetheassistants.com</link>
	<description>a blog for the beleaguered</description>
	<lastBuildDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 21:12:53 +0000</lastBuildDate>
	<docs>http://backend.userland.com/rss092</docs>
	<language>en</language>
	
	<item>
		<title>Fashion Designer&#8217;s New Job Announced &#8230; Via LinkedIn</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When something big happens at a company, like a fashion house hiring a new head designer, they&#8217;ll announce the news in a press release. Or, if you&#8217;re Matthieu Blazy, you can just jump the gun by updating your LinkedIn profile. Although Blazy&#8217;s new job hadn&#8217;t been publicly announced yet, he has already changed his LinkedIn [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/07/07/fashion-designers-new-job-announced-via-linkedin/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>New Career Options For Casey Anthony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Now that Florida &#8220;tot mom&#8221; Casey Anthony has inexplicably been found not guilty of killing her daughter Caylee, she is going to need something else to do with her time besides be on trial. I have some suggestions!

Visit OJ Simpson in jail
Play self in Lifetime movie
Launch personal style blog
Go to Disneyland (not Universal Studios, obvi)
Write [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/07/05/new-career-options-for-casey-anthony/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>John Galliano Became a Racist Because His Assistant Died</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Former Christian Dior designer John Galliano was fired from his post earlier this year when video emerged of Galliano making anti-Semitic remarks in a Paris cafe. Now, Galliano is on trial in France (making such comments is illegal there). Among his rebuttals? He says that following the death of his personal assistant and confidant Steven [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/07/04/john-galliano-became-a-racist-because-his-assistant-died/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>How to Be Black At Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Comedian Baratunde Thurston has a new book coming out entitled How to Be Black, which he describes as &#8220;personal essays documenting my own &#8220;coming of blackness,&#8221; satirical  advice on how to be black in certain situations and interviews with  people doing black &#8220;well,&#8221; and in unexpected ways.&#8221; One of the essays in the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/07/03/how-to-be-black-at-work/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Monday Coffee: You Need Your .5 Of An Hour Back</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How to quit your day job. Wait, you mean setting the office on fire as you walk away cackling isn&#8217;t actually a good idea? &#8211; Consumerist
The average American worker works 8.5 hours a week. So much for the 40 hour workweek. &#8211; Gawker
The real workplace battle is taking place and the battleground is the candy [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/04/18/monday-coffee-you-need-your-5-of-a-day-back/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Time Traveler Seeks Assistant</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I just watched Back to the Future for the first time (I know, it&#8217;s shameful) and am obsessed with time travel. So the idea of responding to this ad for a time traveler&#8217;s assistant is looking reeeeeeeeeally tempting right now.

]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/04/12/time-traveler-seeks-assistant/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Buzzword: The Glass Cliff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably heard of the glass ceiling &#8211; a concept where women in the workforce can only rise to a certain level, no matter what they do or how well they do it &#8211; but the glass cliff is a new one. The glass cliff is when a woman does get the coveted position, but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/04/12/buzzword-the-glass-cliff/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>The Perfect Office Gift</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, this tea probably can&#8217;t make you and your coworkers get along better, but it sounds pretty tasty regardless.
[Via Perpetual Kid]
]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/04/05/the-perfect-office-gift/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Meghan McCain Says a Breakup Is a Great Excuse to Miss Work</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Maybe Meghan McCain should move to Japan and work for Hime and Company &#8211; she thinks that it&#8217;s totally acceptable to miss work if you&#8217;re dealing with a breakup. Although she was scheduled to make a speaking engagement, she reportedly blew it off to go to Vegas with her girlfriends following a big breakup. She [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/04/05/meghan-mccain-says-a-breakup-is-a-great-excuse-to-miss-work/</link>
			</item>
	<item>
		<title>Marc Jacobs&#8217; Intern Goes Rogue on Twitter</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8230; and the results are pretty spectacular. Hat tip: Rebecca Rose.

]]></description>
		<link>http://savetheassistants.com/2011/03/25/marc-jacobs-intern-goes-rogue-on-twitter/</link>
			</item>
</channel>
</rss>

