In this week’s episode: Comedians in Class doing Comedy, from The Economist • Virtual Assistants • Marketing Leggett & Platt mattress springs • and more…

• As much as I don’t care to send them the traffic, here is The Economist’s 410-word absolute pot-boiler about some managers took an improv class. Perhaps you’ll find it more edifying to read The Nation’s ‘The Economist’ Has a Slavery Problem or The Atlantic’s The Economist Is Sorry About Its 'Not All Slave Masters' Book Review.
  • (Though obviously the magazine that writes paycheques to Rahm Emanuel, David Frum and Jeffrey Goldberg should be razed as well.)
• Want to take your very own Canada Job Bank quiz? Have you also tricked yourself into thinking it’ll make great radio? Well friend, here ya go!
• Here’s everything you wanted to know about working at Leggett & Platt but were afraid to ask!

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