OSHA ensures that your employer provides as safe a working environment as possible, but that is not enough to keep employees safe. Your employer is also required to provide training and PPE (personal protection equipment) so that you can do what is required to remain safe. This article covers some of the most dangerous office…
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Team Receives Virtual Atta-Boy
After months of late nights, lost weekends, and prematurely gray or receding hair, the development team for the new communication system at CommStar successfully tested their Engineering design model. “We were overjoyed,” proclaimed lead engineer Jack Wong, “Not since my wife gave birth to our son have I felt this happy.” Similar sentiments were expressed throughout the…
I Know What You Did For Lunch
It was 9am, and Dick moved with purpose down the aisle from his office to the lab. As he passed the empty cubes of his subordinates he felt a grim satisfaction. They are all in the lab, he thought, and that means they are all working. But how hard are they working? And are they doing everything I told…
Infinite Confidence
Todd Park was tired. Not from lack of sleep, although he had tossed and turned all night. He was tired of his job. He didn’t know what he wanted to do, but he knew he had to do something else. His real name wasn’t Todd either, it was Myung-Dae, but Todd was much easier, and…
On the Edge of Outsourcing
6/26/2008 Outsourcing is the latest fad to fail in corporate America, but it needn’t be so. The trouble with all of these fads is that they attack a symptom, but never address the root cause. If your company has tried it, you are aware of the damage it can do. If your company is talking…