All in a Day’s Work The surly vodka vapoured foremanhastily retreatsin a flaming pink neon shirtconfidently sucking clacking denturesand Mr. Milo racks up his totalof seven unfiltered Player’ssmoked and held in orange nicotine stained fingers in silent terror in a corner of the factory floorThank God for the small breaks in Life! Robert K. Stephen
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Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 30 Off to the psychiatrist for Tony Hornet
Chapter 30 Off to the psychiatrist for Tony Hornet! Who can ever believe they are to visit a psychiatrist? Well, I will admit for me it was time to pay a visit to a psychiatrist at a major downtown hospital. It was very odd getting off at the eighth floor of this hospital and walkingContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 30 Off to the psychiatrist for Tony Hornet”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 29 The beginning of the end for Tony Hornet
Chapter 29 The beginning of the end for Tony Hornet A high percentage of Canadians do not reach the unofficial retirement age of 65 as they succumb to a variety of health issues or due to ageism they are terminated. I suppose 11 years at CRAP and 19 at Up Up and Away Toronto tookContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 29 The beginning of the end for Tony Hornet”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 28 Can Largecorp succeed with a charismatic leader?
Chapter 28 Can Largecorp succeed with a charismatic leader? The Senior Management Team of CRAP, Up Up and Away Toronto and New York during the thirty years I worked for them had the charm and magnetism with rank-and-file employees that amounted to that of fruit flies. They were mostly dry and soulless number crunchers onlyContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 28 Can Largecorp succeed with a charismatic leader?”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 27 Mindfulness: Opiate for the employee?
Chapter 27: Mindfulness as an opiate for the employee? As for the individual, it is my view that mindfulness can be a double-edged sword. I say this because being able to control your mind better enables you to respond to situations instead of reacting to them. Instead of your mind being cluttered with irrelevant thoughtsContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 27 Mindfulness: Opiate for the employee?”
Life at Up Up and Away: Chapter 26:The mindfulness craze hits largecorp; What exactly is it?
Chapter 26 The mindfulness craze hits largecorp. What exactly is it? As long-term disability claims mount at largecorp well then word is out in the street just how stressful the largecorp is, employee satisfaction shrinks and stress levels skyrocket illustrating the dismal failure of managing by the Senior Management Team. So largecorp has latched onContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away: Chapter 26:The mindfulness craze hits largecorp; What exactly is it?”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 25 Megastress Largecorp
Chapter 25 Megastress Largecorp Mental illness is the leading cause of disability claims in Canada. Is this because stress is now more widely recognized or is it because largecorp’s Senior Management Team mismanagement has created an increasingly stressful environment? I’ll vote the latter. In a recent study of the Canadian workplace by the employee benefitsContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 25 Megastress Largecorp”
Sugar in excess may lead to mental disorders
Fructose and uric acid as drivers of a hyperactive foraging response: A clue to behavioral disorders associated with impulsivity or mania? Author links open overlay panelRichard J.JohnsonaWilliam L.WilsonbSondra T.BlandcMiguel A.LanaspaaaFrom the Division of Renal Diseases, University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, Aurora, CO 80045, United States of AmericabNew England Inpatient Specialists, North Andover, MA 01845,Continue reading “Sugar in excess may lead to mental disorders”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 24 Largecorp’s contract game
Chapter 24 Largecorp’s contract game Accompanying the downsizing and outsourcing largecorp is embracing the concept of contract employment. In many cases I have friends who have been on continually renewed contracts for over a decade. There are several advantages to largecorp in availing itself of this strategy. It’s very easy to terminate a contract employeeContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 24 Largecorp’s contract game”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 23 Outsourcing and downsizing as largecorp’s biggest products of Misery
Chapter 23 Outsourcing and downsizing as largecorp’s biggest products of misery Not being a business school graduate, I am uncertain where the terms “outsourcing” and “downsizing” originated. They are somewhat neutral but hide a good deal of misery. I can say however that I have lived through both and they continue to be the nastyContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 23 Outsourcing and downsizing as largecorp’s biggest products of Misery”
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