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?”
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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”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management: Chapter 22 Twelve Tips for getting ahead at largecorp
Chapter 22 Twelve tips on how to get ahead at largecorp 1. Never complain or criticize Be very careful about criticizing or complaining about largecorp in a public forum whether it be in the workplace or social media. This may constitute a valid reason for your termination. To the world you will communicate that largecorpContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management: Chapter 22 Twelve Tips for getting ahead at largecorp”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 21 Particularly annoying habits of largecorps controlled by Yankees
Chapter 21 Particularly annoying habits of largecorps controlled by Yankees A Sense of Brutalism: Canadian capitalism has a nasty side to it but at least there has been a touch of paternalism and a tiny sense of caring for employees. Largecorps in Canada that are controlled by Yankees really have no pretense of paternalism andContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 21 Particularly annoying habits of largecorps controlled by Yankees”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 20 Where have all the old people gone?
Chapter 20 So where have all the old people gone? If I had decided to eat out for lunch when working at Up Up and Away Canada in Toronto I frequently walked over to the food court at First Canadian Place because it had so much natural light. I am no fan of bunkers withContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 20 Where have all the old people gone?”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 19 The over 60 white man club and long live global inclusion and the hypocrisy of HR
Chapter 19 The Over 60 White Man Club and long live global inclusion and the hypocrisy of HR I have mentioned in a previous chapter some of the strange productivity schemes invented or pirated by the CRAP Human Resources Department to increase productivity. Up Up and Away management in New York was burbling like aContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 19 The over 60 white man club and long live global inclusion and the hypocrisy of HR”
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