Apparently being skinny is now a requirement for working in a certain hospital. Citizens Medical Center in Victoria, Texas has been called out for a controversial hiring policy that turns away obese applicants, reports the Globe and Mail.

The policy apparently includes a requirement that employees’ appearance “should fit with a representational image or specific mental projection of the job of a healthcare professional.” Fair enough, you might say. If your job is to support people’s health, it might appear hypocritical to be obese. 

First they said they weren’t going to fire him. Then they changed their minds, and Yahoo fired their CEO because he lied on his resume.

When the lie was first discovered, there was outrage, yet Yahoo maintained the lie didn’t affect CEO Scott Thompson's qualifications. In the end, though, that wasn’t enough. The scandal was a huge issue for the troubled company, the lie ruined the CEO’s credibility, and they cut him loose.

For most of us, a lie on a resume isn’t going to get quite that much attention, but it’s still something to think carefully about. Here are some of the risks and benefits of lying on your resume.

We North Americans sometimes get a bad rap when compared to our European counterparts, but it turns out that we have them beat in at least one area: we’re happier at work. And we’re not even that happy. A new poll has uncovered surprising results showing that many of the world’s citizens feel his or her workplace is not psychologically safe or healthy. Three in 10 people felt this way.

The Ipsos survey had 14,000 respondents from across the globe. Twenty-seven per cent of workers in 24 countries claimed to be unhappy with the psychological aspects at their workplace, based on reasons like stress, interpersonal conflict, frustration, and lack of feedback or promotions. North Americans were found to be the most content.

My brother wants to be a cop and has been taking steps toward that goal for the last year, basically since the second he graduated university. As such, it feels like I continuously hear about how great police jobs can be. Police officers get paid well. Police offers advance quickly. Police offers are God-like. Okay, he doesn’t spout that last idiom – but he might as well.

Needless to say, my brother had me thinking that police jobs were pretty cushy gigs - this despite the whole fighting-crime-and-putting-your-life-in-danger thing. But then I read a CBC news article that detailed a survey that found an ongoing problem for officers of the law: work-life balance. In the policing sector, employees are increasingly suffering consequences from the poor divide between work and home life.

Many Canadians have poor work-life balance; this is not a revelation to anyone. That said, there are not an exorbitant amount of professions where you go to work each day knowing that you might have to chase criminals, deal with disheartening situations like domestic disputes or violent crime, or have someone fire a gun your way. I would imagine that, for a police officer, bringing work baggage home would be very detrimental to living a healthy life. And I am not only writing that because I read it. I honestly cannot imagine having to see some of the things police officers see, and then attempting to go home to try and forget.

In my last job, we had an executive who was well known for doodling in meetings. He would get all kinds of crazy drawings going, with shading and details and a fair bit of artistic merit. He was wicked smart, so no one really thought much of it. In fact, I think a few people assumed that’s how he came up with ideas.

Turns out they might have been right. Several high-profile companies, says the Wall Street Journal, have been encouraging their employees to doodle or draw. Facebook has whiteboards, chalkboards and writable glass in a variety of different areas to catch creativity as it happens. Zappos is taking it even farther by hiring people to sketch discussions from meetings and conferences. The cartoon-style meeting minutes are designed to keep employees engaged.

Freedom 55? Try Freedom 75. These days, people at the upper end of the age demographic aren’t trying to retire early - they’re actually working well beyond 65.

CareerBuilder has done another interesting survey that shows 57 per cent of people over age 60 plan to continue working after retirement. Which means – get this – that they’re not only planning to work longer but that they’re actually planning to get another job after they leave their current company.

Get on your feet! A new lunchtime exercise trend in Sweden has workers busting a move in the middle of the workday. Not only have the Swedes found a way to fit cardiovascular exercise into their workweek, but they are doing it in a fun and fresh way. 

Lunch Beat is a program that has workers using their lunch hours to dance to music under disco lights. For one hour, employees break away from work to boogie and have fun – all without any alcohol, which gives the event a different flair then nighttime clubbing. Then they head back to work.

I started a new job a little while ago and am still getting used to one aspect of the team dynamic that’s new to me: texting. Don’t get me wrong – I’m used to texting. It’s become the main way my husband and I communicate. (Yes, we’re lame. Or maybe just normal.) But texting people at work still seems odd to me.

If someone on my team is running late and wants me to know, I get a text. If there’s a question or reminder in the evening about something, I get a text. I don’t mind at all – I just have to remember to keep my phone nearby so this stays a reliable method of communication.

Apparently it’s increasingly common in many workplaces as more and more people from Generation Z come on board. Gen Z tweets, texts and otherwise turns conventions upside down. At least according to some sources.

Apparently all that advice to network, network, network will only get you so far. It might help you get in the door, but it’s not necessarily going to help you climb the pay scale.

Yaov Ganzech, a professor at Tel Aviv University, compared the effects of being well-connected versus intelligent, and found that intelligence will help your career advance rather than knowing the right people.

This is a PG-rated blog but, every once in a while, a seedier topic comes up that needs to be covered. While this story isn’t quite kid-friendly, it’s not likely to make anyone run screaming from the room. But it is likely to make you scratch your brow in confusion and amazement and could, quite possibly, cause one to have a giggle fit because of its ridiculousness.

Here’s the story: An Australian woman has been awarded workers’ compensation after sustaining a sex injury in her hotel room while on a business trip. The woman’s not a sex worker, but the judge ruled that her sex injury occurred during the course of her employment because she was on a business trip. It makes sense if one looks at business trips as 24/7 commitments, given that the employee is forced to travel and stay at a location that is not their home. Then again, I don’t know too many people who have sex at the office, so “sexytime” in a hotel seems like it should be off the clock, doesn’t it?