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An engineer friend of mine is approaching her twentieth anniversary of working at our company. To celebrate, our company is throwing a cocktail reception for her, and Susan gets to pick the menu.After a quick poll of our office, she decided on some pretty typical “happy hour” fare: a veggie tray, some chicken strips, chips [...]
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I’ve been occupied with the temporary move to Dodge City, Kansas, and haven’t been focused enough to write anything here for about a month. Thanks for waiting.
As I mentioned last time, my company is in the process of downsizing about twenty thousand people all over the world, and some of them were in Kansas. I [...]
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Just like nearly everyone else, I have been touched by this recession. My company has nearly 300,000 employees world-wide, and even before the market nose-dived last year they announced a plan to cut costs, slash jobs and increase share value. I’m a stock-holder, and have been for longer than I’ve been an employee, so I [...]
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Almost nine years ago, I quit a job as a radio dj to go to work for a large telecommunications company. I felt that I was trading the instability of the radio business for a stable, secure union job that would carry me into retirement many years down the road. Boy was I wrong!
This week, [...]
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