vacation
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Your Out-of-Office Message Should Be Brutally Honest
The out-of-office message is one of the most formulaic functions of the modern workplace, so much so that most of them seem to have been derived from a game of Mad-Libs: “I will be away from the office from [date] with limited access to email. If your message is urgent…” etc., etc.
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Don’t Trust Your Hotel’s COVID-19 Cleaning Policy
Hotels are gross. There, I said it. It’s something we often forget about, especially if we’re staying at a place that’s a bit classier than the Schitt’s Creek Motel, but anywhere you sleep where 1) other people have slept and 2) someone else has to clean is invariably going to fail you. That’s just the…
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How To Outsmart Your Hotel Room TV And Use Its HDMI Ports For Anything You Want
Hotels can be stingy about what guests are allowed to do with their TVs. For example, if you try to plug your own device into your room’s TV to watch your own content, odds are good that nothing will happen. Hotel TVs are usually plugged into external boxes that track your hotel room’s TV activity…
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Watch Out For This Airbnb Scam
Just last month, we wrote about a couple that was swindled out of nearly $17,000 on Airbnb because of a phony listing. But according to a report by senior staff writer Allie Conti for Vice—who fell victim to a scam played on Airbnb users in several major cities—scammers on the platform are becoming a hell…