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Let’s End Two Weeks’ Notice
Why are employees made to feel like they have to give notice when leaving a job—but employers don’t owe that same consideration to workers?
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Ashley Rodriguez
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Ashley’s Assignments: A Union Rally Crosses Sectors to Celebrate Solidarity
'What's disgusting?' 'UNION BUSTING!'
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Ashley Rodriguez
3:41
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I Hate Coffee Shop Loyalty Programs. Am I Wrong?
Despite their promises, I'm unsure if loyalty programs are actually the best way to generate customer support.
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Ashley Rodriguez
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Ashley’s Assignments: An Eviction Filing Can Stay on Your Record for Decades. Here’s How One Organization Works to Find Solutions In—and…
In eviction court in Dane County, one organization helps negotiate agreements between landlords and tenants
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Ashley Rodriguez
4
October 2023
When Consumers Complain About the Cost of Coffee, How Should We Respond?
Further thoughts on the paradox of coffee pricing and how we assign value to the people who make the things we love.
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Ashley Rodriguez
1
The Anti-Union Rhetoric Is Coming From Inside the House
How a cement company could change the power of unions and labor laws as we know it.
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Ashley Rodriguez
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LaChrista McArthur Did Her High School Capstone Project on Coffee
The Charlotte-based coffee consultant threw herself into the industry at a young age—and now has a wealth of thoughts to share about loyalty, robot…
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Ashley Rodriguez
43:52
September 2023
Hi, I Go to Journalism School Now
Some personal news—and a look behind the scenes at the Boss Barista editing process.
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Ashley Rodriguez
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REPOST: How the Pizza Party Became the Symbol of Bad Bosses Everywhere
There's no such thing as a free lunch—and there's no fooling employees with empty "perks"
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Ashley Rodriguez
2
Meet Your Roaster: Baylee Engberg
Why striving to avoid waste in coffee is a good antidote for perfectionism with the Portland-based roaster.
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Ashley Rodriguez
'We Producers Are At The Weather’s Mercy': Coffee Farmers Talk Climate Change
GUEST POST: We're told that the future of coffee is threatened by the climate crisis. But for many farmers that threat is already here.
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Ashley Rodriguez
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Fionn Pooler
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August 2023
Is More Every Really More?
How “more” of everything is filling up our lives—and how to fight back against the cult of busyness.
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Ashley Rodriguez
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