Weekly Picks: 3.17

Dusty Canyon

There’s no Job Millennials won’t leave​ but here’s how to keep them a bit longer

CONFESSION: I’m a millennial.

Reading this made me mad. Are we really that fickle that Gen Xers and Baby Boomers fret and trade secrets about how to keep us around and happy?

If you’re a millennial, read this to know how your boss feels about you.

If you're in charge of millennials, read this knowing this puts you in a horrible mindset for managing millennials.

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Kay McKinley

Operation London Bridge: the secret plan for the days after the Queen’s death

CONFESSION: I love Queen Elizabeth II. Even though I’m an American.

Love her or hate her, Republican or Monarchist, when Elizabeth II dies, it’s going to be gut wrenching. Her ascension happened 65 years ago and despite a “heavy cold” over the holidays, she’s still reigning like it’s 1952. But the end is as inevitable for royalty as it is for commoners and The Guardian (that bastion of Republicanism) has the plans for what is known as London Bridge.

Most interviews were given in secret (lest anyone say out loud that the Queen could actually die), and the ceremonies are planned to the minute. With decades to prepare, how can anything go wrong?

This article digs into the minutiae of royal gossip and logistics. It’s fascinating and heartbreaking at the same time.

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Morgan Silver

10 Things You Should Know About Prohibition

CONFESSION: I watched Boardwalk Empire earlier while practicing picking up a Cheeto off the floor with my toes.

The Temperance Movement was an odd retrograde social sabbatical in America’s history, sounds a bit familiar, eh? But how much do you really know other than Al Capone ran Chicago and Muscle Cars originated with Moonshiners?

According to Prohibition historian Daniel Okrent, windfalls from legal alcohol sales helped the drug store chain Walgreens grow from around 20 locations to more than 500 during the 1920s.

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