Every profession and occupation has its own brand of humor, usually intelligible only to insiders And each group takes its humor seriously. When you joke with your co-workers about your boss, each…
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Why you and I might not retire
When I was around 10 years old, my vision of retirement was to work until 65 and then “fish my life away.” Role models included my maternal grandfather, who retired from the…
Finding the Ghost in the Machine
“Management researchers . . . dig deeper and deeper into the human psyche in their search for the ‘ghost in the machine’ – that elusive spirit that inspired enthusiastic human action and…
New era takes off in Red skies as another goes down the drain
One can’t have read Arlie Hochschild’s The Managed Heart and continue thinking about any working stiff, woman or man, in the same way. Ever. It affects me especially when I’m at a…