I found that I had to buy a mattress today. What fun. After a wonderful shopping experience at a number of discount places that didn’t have what I wanted, but whose employees sure had plenty of attitude, I ended up back where I started: Macy*s — part of the Federated [...]
Right to the head of my observations on the importance of symbols to an organization marches the International Association of Machinists, District 751. I’m not sure I could ever find a more perfect symbol of union’s gone wild than this one. IAM Website The IAM is the union that represents [...]
I had the wonderful fortune to drive from Seattle to L.A. and back a couple of weeks ago. You see a lot of nothing and do a lot of thinking in those 40 hours. Spotted on a truck was this statement: Providing customer solutions through trust and innovation. OK, so [...]
I needed some stamps and stopped into the post office today. Miracle of miracles, there was no line. At the counter she tells me “these new stamps have the ’39 cents’ on them now.” OK, I admit, I’m not strong enough to let that one pass: “well that ought to [...]
For crying out loud, it is one of the most touchy yet most important elements of organizational culture. I mean, holy f%&*ing christ, few things draw such a clear line between those that do, and those that don’t. Of course, dumbs*&t, I mean cursing in the workplace With the simultaneous [...]