Blog Posts by Rebecca Stropoli

Ah, was it just a week ago today that the world was waiting in wide-eyed anticipation for Facebook (FB) to begin trading on the Nasdaq? Yes, waiting...and waiting...and waiting, as 11:00 a.m. ET came and went and trading did not commence? And thus began the debacle that has been Facebook's initial public offering -- botched trades, lawsuits and market losses, oh, my.

Again -- has it really been only a week? This afternoon, as we head toward market close before a long holiday weekend, the stock is trading at $31 and change -- close to $7 below its offering price of $38. In its first week as a public company, it has traded in a range of $30.94-$45 (and that $45 was a very brief pop on its first day out of the gate, when it closed just 23 cents above $38).

But does the typical Facebook user care about the IPO? Does it matter to them if the company has a $100 billion valuation or a $10 billion one? If it continues to trade on the Nasdaq or moves over to the NYSE (as if that would solve any

Do you remember the days of the three-martini lunch (or as Jimmy Carter put it, the "the $50 martini lunch")? Or a time when a lunch hour could actually take -- an hour? Or even the standard half an hour?

Perhaps not. In a society that is increasingly work-obsessed and overly "connected," the lunch break, for many, is not a "break" at all, but a sandwich or salad hastily consumed at our desks as we continue on with our workday. Last year, a survey by human resources consulting firm Right Management found that "one-third of employees have lunch at their desk each day" and "another one-third takes no lunch, or only occasionally."

"Lunch patterns allow us to infer a few things about the North American workplace…and one thing that we already know is that the pressure for productivity and performance can be relentless," said Michael Haid, senior VP of talent management at Right Management, in a release on the study.

Many Workers Take No Break

Another recent study by CareerBuilder found

Someone got $38 million richer on Friday -- and it wasn't you.

According to Apple Insider (and an SEC filing dated April 27), Apple's iOs chief Scott Forstall cashed in more than 65,000 shares of AAPL last week, getting in on a price that ranged from $601 to $605 for the day. This range was below Apple's all-time closing high of $636.23 on April 9, but the sale came in the middle of a four-day dip that saw Apple close at $582 and change on Tuesday, its lowest since (erroneously fearful) pre-earnings jitters brought it to $560.

So -- better Friday than Tuesday, right? Forstall's official total came in at $38.7 million. On Wednesday afternoon, the stock was trading up more than 1%, at around $583.

Forstall's sale amounted to 95% of his holdings; he now has a mere 2,988 shares to his name. But if anyone wants to speculate that this might mean Forstall -- who Inside Apple author Adam Lashinsky said was most likely to replace current CEO Tim Cook after he moves on to non-Apple-producing