While mobile devices were once considered a status symbols for those who were high on the corporate ladder, today even junior level staffers are expected to be connected after-hours and during their time-off.
It looks like a garden shed mounted precariously on six-metre-high stilts, and the ladder wobbles as I climb.
Does being high up on the organizational ladder cause bosses to be less stressed, or is it possible that people with less anxiety are more able to handle leadership roles, which gets them promoted?
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Ordinary Kenyans would not have been surprised to see top public figures included in the report, but they are sceptical that those high up on the public ladder will ever have to pay for alleged wrong-doing.
Now, climbing off that high horse (needed a ladder to get up there, you know), we shorties feel those lanky people's pain, especially since we've had to sit behind you when you drive absurdly small-cabined BMWs.
The rooms are high-ceilinged, but otherwise way down the luxury ladder.
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Dr High warns that researchers are still at the bottom of a tall ladder, though she expects quicker progress in the future.
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But stiff minimum-wage laws and other regulations have been chopping off the bottom rungs of the ladder and U.S. unemployment seems stuck at a high level, so American mobility may also take a hit.
That the jobs these men are running off to are all intellectually stimulating, high-paying, and that every single guy can rise up the corporate ladder just by showing up and wearing a tie.
Dennis Lenahan is an itinerant high-dive artist who makes a perilous living by leaping off an 80-foot ladder into a shallow tub of water.
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