Will you eat rock?

Kazakhstan, a vast and diverse Central Asian country, is home to a peculiar and fascinating tradition that might astonish many outsiders of the practice of eating rocks as snacks. In this country, rocks are packaged and sold at supermarkets. Families even serve rocks as part of their meals at dinner.Known as ” tuzbaryn, ” which translates to ” eating stones” in Kazakh, this age- old tradition is primarily found in the southern regions of the country, where the landscape is dotted with small, smooth stones rich in minerals. This clay is not like any clay thanks to its monolithic and dense structure. For soil-eating amateurs this clay is great as… Read More

Continue Reading

Quiet Firing vs Quiet Quitting

(EMPLOYERS) QUIET FIRE VS (EMPLOYEES) QUIET QUITQuiet firing and quiet quitting tend to feed into each other. Low employee engagement, frequent absenteeism and burnout — key markers of quiet quitting — are typically the result of poor work-life balance. And leadership has a lot to do with that. Managers who fail to offer adequate training, support and career development opportunities to an employee can inadvertently, or even intentionally, cause that employee to lose interest in or passion for their job — ultimately resulting in their leaving the organization in pursuit of something else. Quiet firing is carried out by an employer. When a manager quietly fires someone, that means they… Read More

Continue Reading