Category: The Call, Rap, and RealTalk and the Belief in Working Hard and Earning a Living

A Northeast Philadelphia grocery store placed a “We Are Hiring – Inquire Within” sign on its entrance door in June 2021. Later, in September, an addition to the sign read: “$250.00 signing bonus” if the applicant is available to start immediately. The sign announced that there were three store locations, with several available positions. As …

In March 2021, an online journal, 20 Something FINANCE (https://20somethingfinance.com/millennials-hate-jobs/), reported that while Americans hate their jobs in general, millennials, in particular, hate their jobs far more than the average American employee. They display little to no job loyalty. Job hoppers are what they are, meaning they go from one job to another due to …

In 2011, Google invited Zen Master, Thich Nhat Hanh, to Silicone Valley to speak with its employees. The management team believed that an afternoon with the Zen master and his mindfulness teachings would halt rising employee disengagement; however, Hanh turned the occasion into one reminiscent of a routine day in Plum Village, including a silent …

Winter Ed. 2019    The Call, Rap and RealTalk about the belief in working and earning a living  I received a comment on an article that appeared on my blog when it was “Transforming the American Workplace.” The reader criticized the article for its lack of logic and coherence. The comments noted that I failed to …

I read an article from Harvard Business Review, my go to place when I want to know what’s hot in workplace research. Their research articles on the workplace are frequently a reaction to the results of an annual survey, “The State of the American Workplace,” conducted by Gallup.    Interesting how even with the continued …