Monthly Archives: July 2022

Delta forgot to put a passenger’s wheelchair onto a flight from New York to Ireland, then broke it on the way home

Tim Kelly and his wheelchair. Courtesy of Tim Kelly Delta staff forgot to put a passenger’s wheelchair on his flight from New York to Dublin. Tim Kelly’s custom-fitted wheelchair didn’t arrive in Dublin for another two days. Kelly told Insider he considered flying over 3,000 miles back home to pick up a spare chair. A…

3 managers suspected their employees were working another full-time job but didn’t fire them. Here’s why, and what they did instead.

Employers are catching their employees working two jobs at once. Not every manager is immediately firing them. MoMo Productions/Getty Images Some employees are working two full-time jobs in secret to make extra cash. Employers who caught employees in the act shared how they responded. Two managers said the employees quit their other job. A third…

Biden’s Education Department may be signaling yet another student-loan payment pause extension

President Joe Biden. Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images The Education Dept. told student-loan companies to halt outreach on payment resumption, WSJ first reported. The department took the same action before the previous payment pause extension. Lawmakers and advocates have sounded the alarm on the lack of notice on any upcoming relief. Student-loan payments are set to resume…

Sweden’s new, quiet submarines could give Russia even more headaches

Swedish submarine HMS Gotland with other NATO and partner-nation ships during exercise Dynamic Mongoose, May 4, 2015. US Navy/Mass Comm. Specialist 2nd Class Amanda S. Kitchner Sweden has developed a reputation for building sophisticated submarines. Swedish shipbuilder SAAB just laid the keel on its new, next-generation submarine. The first Blekinge-class sub won’t enter service for…