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?”
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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”
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 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”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 16 A lucky jump into Up Up and Away Investment Management International
Chapter 16 A lucky jump into Up Up and Away Investment Management International It is so remarkably interesting just how much fate and luck play a part in landing a new job. Sure, you follow all the same old advice as to networking, resumé writing and how to conduct yourself at an interview. But youContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 16 A lucky jump into Up Up and Away Investment Management International”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International : Chapter 15 Is there anything good at all about largecorp?
Chapter 15 Is there anything good at all about largecorp? I think you would agree that I have painted a bleak picture of largecorp. It is fuelled by greed through obscene executive compensation. This involves fleecing shareholders and exploiting employees to the point of burning and spitting them out. Through the business schools of management,Continue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International : Chapter 15 Is there anything good at all about largecorp?”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 13: “So how does largecorp hang on?”
Chapter 13 So how does largecorp hang on? Largecorp is still out there despite a stream of Millennials and burnt-out Boomers threatening so many of its dear values. The Millennials have seen many of their parents burnt out and chewed up by largecorp. It is tempting to say they are spoilt and from an “entitlement”Continue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 13: “So how does largecorp hang on?””
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 11: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 11 Downsizing: Prospective employers: The toughest act to conquer Perhaps the most important actor in the Theatre of the Downsized is the employer you must convince to hire you. Depending upon your reaction to the Blessed Event undertaking a job search is either the first or last activity you are in the mood for.Continue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 11: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 3 Back from vacation under the control of Felicity Poker It was a beautiful July day in Toronto and I could see the harbour below with the sun shimmering off the placid waters of Lake Ontario. Beautiful puff clouds switched the sun off and on like some psychedelic light show. Terribly refreshed I feltContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
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