Today might be the last day you’ll ever have to make that dentist’s appointment sneakily at your desk or pay the phone bill in your lunch hour. You can now, for an hour, hire an assistant in an Indian call centre to do it all for you. Your outsourced PA will help with almost anything.
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/ 11 February 2008
As if work isn’t difficult enough. It turns out that as well as being brilliant all day every day, lucky and well connected, there are several other factors for becoming successful that are beyond our control. For example, how tall you are, your name, what time you get up in the mornings and even the colour of your hair can have a bearing on how much you get paid and whether you’ll be promoted.
George W Bush (approval rating: 29%) is used to being unpopular with the US electorate. But now he is even losing the support of the rightwingers in his party — and they’re showing their displeasure in dollars, not just percentage points. In the run-up to the last two American election campaigns, eager Republicans lined their party’s coffers by paying up to $25 000 to have the president pose for a picture with them at fundraising events.