Monthly Archives: October 2022

4 social-media managers say the job requires long hours and unrealistic expectations. They share the breaking points that made them quit.

Forty-seven percent of social-media managers surveyed in a 2020 study said that they worked more hours than their colleagues. SOPA Images/Contributor Social-media managers face a variety of challenges, which has led to many quitting and pivoting. Four former managers said they faced a lack of support and expectations beyond the job. Other reasons for quitting…

Pallet is making $7,500 prefab tiny homes that can be setup in 1 hour to help solve the homelessness crisis — see inside a unit at a Washington village

Brittany Chang/Insider Washington-based Pallet is building prefab tiny homes to provide shelter for people who are unhoused. Its smallest $7,500 64-square-foot unit “Pallet 64” is now being used in villages across the US. See inside a Pallet 64 at Everett Gospel Mission’s tiny home village near Pallet’s headquarters. Bigger isn’t always better, according to the…

I decorate people’s homes for Halloween. I started out of the trunk of my car and almost quit from the stress — but now I have my own staff and big commercial clients.

Courtesy of Kelly Fitzsimmons Kelly Fitzsimmons is the owner of Light Up Your Holidays, a holiday decorating service in Chicago. Fitzsimmons started the business from the trunk of her car in 2001. Now, she has six-figure clients. She decorates for holidays like Halloween and Christmas, and said she tailors designs to clients’ budgets and moods….

Customers sue California marijuana company for false advertising. The plaintiffs say the weed wasn’t strong enough.

Prerolled joints are displayed alongside marijuana paraphernalia. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Two customers are suing a California marijuana company for false advertising. The class action lawsuit claims a range of prerolled joints had lower THC content than was advertised. The lawsuit refers to a Weed Week report, which accuses the company of inflating the THC content…

Read the worst things Manhattanites said about Trump in jury selection for the Trump Org tax-fraud trial.

Threats to federal judges increased significantly during Donald Trump’s administration. Evan Vucci/AP Some 60 Manhattanites were questioned for the Trump Organization’s tax-fraud jury.  Just one expressed positive opinions about the former president; she did not make the jury. Other rejected jurors said Trump is “a scam artist” and “has a diagnosable personality disorder.” They called…

More than $3.2 trillion has been wiped off tech giants’ value this year as inflation soars and a recession looms

The biggest tech stocks have lost $300 billion in value this past week. Rachel Mendelson/Insider The biggest tech stocks have shed about $3.2 trillion in value this year. The market cap of “GAMMA” stocks is down by more than $300 billion this past week. The effects of inflation and signs of a possible recession have…

Here’s why people who dislike Trump were allowed on the jury for the Trump Organization criminal trial

Former President Donald Trump. Spencer Platt/Getty Images Three people who dislike Trump made it onto a jury deciding a criminal case involving his company. Insider spoke to two experts who explained how this was possible.  They said that Trump’s lawyers ran out of strikes to dismiss jurors with negative opinions of Trump. Three of the…