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Entries Tagged as 'War stories'
You Are Not Alone
August 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Company profiles, War stories
Tags:anti-trust·automotive bankruptcies·bankruptcy·communications bankruptcies·dead company·energy bankruptcies·lessons learned·Ponzi scheme failures·transportation bankruptcies
Fairy Tale Bosses
August 4th, 2009 · No Comments · Humor, Losing a job, War stories
“Do you want to know a secret? Do you promise not to tell?” – Snow White
Have you ever worked for a moron? Thief? Leech? Welcome to the club. If your company is dead there was a stinker somewhere, maybe even a full-blown level 5 toxic environment. Here’s the Seven Dwarfs Standard, developed when I had [...]
Tags:Bosses·dead company
What Could Possibly Close Next?
July 21st, 2009 · No Comments · Losing a job, New members, War stories
YIKES. This was the prescient license plate of a former investment broker who can’t afford the car anymore. It’s my G-rated exclamation when I read about the growing stacks of worthless stock certificates, old employee IDs and the latest additions to the club.
American pastimes closed indefinitely
Closings have gone way beyond what you read in the [...]
New Job Award Winners
July 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment · Coping, Finding a job, Motivation, War stories
“Success is not built on success. It’s built on failure. It’s built on frustration. Sometimes it’s built on catastrophe.”
-Sumner Redstone, majority owner of CBS, Viacom, MTV Network, Paramount Pictures and DreamWorks studios
I was taught that there are winners and losers. You didn’t hear any of that sissy “Everybody’s a winner, Sweetie!” nonsense in my ‘hood. [...]
Tags:award·Coping·finding a job·new job
Was Lehman too small to save?
July 2nd, 2009 · No Comments · Company profiles, Humor, War stories
“Life’s not fair, is it.” James Earl Jones in The Lion [...]
