The Workplace

Denver Woman Placed on National Business Cliche Offenders List for Two Years

Carla Millington was ready to make the big move...

Poodle’s Behavior at “Take Your Dog to Work Day” Gets its Owner Terminated

Sterling Heights marketer Stella Winkler was fired Friday after...

SUCCESS! Employees Celebrate Raising Funds to Give CEO 20% Raise

With big companies continually looking to increase shareholder profits,...

As Gen Xers Bring More to the Table, Bigger Tables Needed

During the past four years, American businesses have increased...

Tulsa Company Lays Off All Employees Named Ray

Facing the need to save costs following two years of losses, Tulsa platform manufacturers Ralston-Morton ordered the layoffs of 18 of the company’s 424 employees last week. Those impacted...

Six Ways to Avoid Being Perceived as an Office Pushover

It’s impossible to succeed in the workplace if you’re perceived as a “pushover” – that is, a person who is taken advantage of and, in some instances, actually pushed...

Requiring Signatures on Anonymous Attitude Survey Boosts Positivity by 1600 Percent

Sears/Wills, the international travel aggregator, achieved a 1598 percent increase in its employee satisfaction score this year by making one simple change to its annual anonymous attitude survey: Employees...

Analyst Mixes Up Career “Do” With “Don’t,” Punches CEO in Nose

Having read 787 business advice books, Sarah Watney, an ultra-analyst at Chicago’s Millington Group, believed she had memorized every "do" and "don't" necessary to advance her career.  Last March...

Speed Disclaimers Save Their Companies’ Rears

Covering the company’s rear end is rarely mentioned in mission statements, but it is always the number one priority. Many US businesses have long assigned staffers to end meetings...

Up and Coming Ad Man Mistakenly Gets His Foot in the Wrong Door

Steve Wilson was on top of the world. Three years after first sending out his resume, then following up with over 100 query letters, he thought he’d finally gotten...

As Employees Return to Work, Brokerage Reassigns Their Comfort Zones

As its employees began returning to the workplace after more than two years at home, the management at Transinstitutional Brokers of Birmingham, Alabama, observed that most of them were...

“Writing on the Wall” Strategy Transitions From Workplace to Home

To avoid paying expensive severance packages to terminated employees, HR departments have long utilized the strategy of writing on their office or cubicle walls to get them to resign...

Consortium Says Giving 110% No Longer Enough, Mandates Increase

The Nevergo consortium of St. Louis notified its 1300 employees this week that it is no longer sufficient to give 110 percent. New requirements – which increase expectations to...

Despite Being Told There Was No Need to Do So, Employee Still Re-Invents the Wheel

Ignoring what her superiors considered a pretty clear directive, Sheila Cosgrove, a conformities specialist at Denver’s Pomeroy Trust, re-invented the wheel last Thursday. “We were asking that she conduct a...

With “Walking Out” Fired Staffers Now Common, Companies Seek More Humiliating Methods

When major auto companies began instituting massive layoffs across the country this month, those affected were invariably “walked out” – that is, provided with a box in which to...

Managers Disciplined for Ingoring the Elephant in the Room

At the Swansong Group, nobody talked about the elephant in the room. “We assumed the bosses didn’t want to hear about it so we kept our mouths shut,” says a...

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