There is nothing like an excellent outdoor team-building experience to bolster morale and improve performance. Unless, of course, your team abandons one member of your crew on a mountain and leaves them to die. That could potentially negate the very positive effects intended by the exercise. Last August, co-workers left a Colorado man alone atop Mount…
Covid, Gen Z, and The Increasing Use of Sick Days
Poor Gen Z. Everybody seems to pick on them. It is, I suppose, a rite of passage of some sort. Every generation is generally critical of the ones that follow it. And as I wrote last week, Gen Z has four other opinionated and domineering generations before it in the workplace. And one of those generations,…
Generational Changes and Fat People in Their Floaty Chairs
It has been said that, at times, life imitates art. I don’t know if that is wholly true, but there are stark examples that indicate it can happen. In 2008, the movie Wall-E depicted a human population immersed in technology, where morbidly obese residents spent their day gliding around in floating chairs talking to people…
Over a Workers’ Comp Claim, Going For Broker
The story you are about to read is true. The names have been changed to protect the innocent. And in some cases, the stupid. Really stupid. It’s a shame I can’t change my own name, as it would have protected me on numerous occasions of idiocy. But that is a different story, I suppose. I…