by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Feb 15, 2010
Dwight Schrute of “The Office”: a total suck ass with no social skills you might say. Yet Dwight has utility. The perennial outsider may stimulate more penetrating ideas and require better debate in the workplace just because, occasionally, he may have, by...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Feb 13, 2010
Here are some thoughts by psychologist Batya Ludman (with some of my own added): 1. You are the product. Package yourself to sell. 2. Rework your resume to showcase your strengths. Market yourself. 3. Be flexible! Show adaptability and learn new skills. Your old job...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Feb 12, 2010
James Russell Lowell was a great American Essayist and Poet of the 19th Century, and a contemporary of Abraham Lincoln. The following are excerpts, one line only for each extraordinarily long paragraph of Lowell’s long essay: “Abraham Lincoln 1864-1865.” 1. Men might...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Feb 11, 2010
A dispute over two hours overtime, if things go south for the employer, could average a million or more per unpaid hour. Assume an employee claims he is entitled to two hours unpaid overtime. Assume he is wrong, and his time card was modified based on his error or...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jan 11, 2010
EXCERPT: The court said it wanted until at least Wednesday to consider arguments by backers of Proposition 8, the November 2008 ballot measure outlawing same-sex marriage, that camera coverage could result in threats or even violence against witnesses favoring the...
by EMPLOYEE RIGHTS EXCLUSIVELY | Jan 8, 2010
How did a 46 year old woman, born in Maoist China, turn a lay-off in 1996 into a multi-million dollar business in 8 years? She lost her job with millions of others when Communist China’s state run businesses downsized to shift to a capitalist economy. The...
