Slacker Manager has a weak post on telecommuting, 8 Tips on How to Work From Home: 28 Years of Experience, by David Zinger . It's really more like eight thoughts. Only two seem like tips to me -- the rest are observations or benefits based...
Slacker Manager has linked to a survey on whether people are given 'strength-training' at work; that is, are trained to improve their strengths and use them more often. The answer appears to be a resounding no. I say "appears" because the data seems based...
Slacker Manager puts a management spin on the Seven Deadly Sins -- pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth. It's more forced than funny. But here's a wise one on the sins of project management . I found 'stubborness" particularly honest, and that...
Teenagers under 18 without adult supervision are being turned away at Delaware's largest mall as of this weekend, as officials attempt to reclaim the center for shoppers, not slackers. "We will have a public-safety officer at each entrance, and they will be checking IDs," Steve Chambliss, manager of Christiana Mall,...
Experienced Human Resources HR professionals know this dilemma all too well - slackers and malcontents who have learned to use the threat of retaliation claims as a sword instead of a shield. Besides failing to perform their duties, these employees regularly grouse or nitpick, almost daring their supervisors to intervene....
If you see a few Crayola crayons on a co-worker's desk, you might think "slacker." Littleton-based business consultant Gina Schreck thinks "stress buster." Crayons -- and they have to be the Crayola brand -- are a proven calming agent because they evoke thoughts of the stress-free days of childhood, Schreck...
Employers know the dilemma all too well - slackers and malcontents who have learned to use the threat of retaliation claims as a sword instead of a shield. Besides failing to perform their duties, these employees regularly grouse or nitpick, almost daring their supervisors to intervene. Meanwhile, frustrated supervisors put...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Review: BE KIND REWIND Directed by Michel Gondry New Line A Michel Gondry film that slyly manages to keep its Gondry-ness in check until it emerges like a Cracker Jack surprise, Be Kind Rewind is nevertheless another toy-box diorama chock-full of visual invention and...
AHHHH, WORKPLACE DIVAS ... always expecting the rest of us to cater to their every whim. And slackers, well, who doesn't just love them? Constantly shirking responsibility and making excuses. Of course, let's not forget those ever-respected pushovers--afraid to stand up for themselves, never knowing when...
Atlanta viewers who tune into WAGA at 11 p.m. next week will see a far slicker player than Kelso, Fez and the rest of the scruffy slacker gang from That '70s Show , which has long aired in that slot. That's because the Fox-owned station is introducing Fox 5 News...
A Survival Guide to Managing Employees From Hell: Handling Idiots, Whiners, Stackers, and Other Workplace Demons Gini Graham Scott 2006, 224 pages $15 softcover [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The title of this book conveys the humorous yet serious nature of the task of managing employees. The aim of...
ISLIP, N.Y. -- GPS tracking devices installed on government- issue vehicles are helping communities around the country reduce waste and abuse, in part by catching employees shopping, working out at the gym or otherwise loafing while on the clock. The use of GPS has led to firings,...
LOS ANGELES -- When it comes to listening to music outside of the home, Dennis Mudd doesn't reach for an iPod or similar portable device. Mudd, CEO of online radio company Slacker, prefers his cool shades: a pair of Oakley Thump 2 $199 sunglasses with a built-in media...
Supervisors, middle managers and corporate executives -- suits, if you will -- tonight will be going to a frightening source for leadership lessons. Many will put down their copy of The Effective Executive by Peter Drucker and tune into the one-hour season premiere of NBC's comedy The Office. ...
LOS ANGELES -- He's the star of one of the most popular kid shows on television but -- just as his series once did -- Devon Werkheiser manages to keep a low profile. In the actor's case, growing up has had something to do with keeping him...
Ben stone isn't what you'd call a player. He lives with four buddies in a squalid slacker palace. He's chubby, furry and happily unemployed, unless you count a scheme to launch a Web site charting every female nude scene in Hollywood history. One night, Ben Seth Rogen and his C-list...
What "the 40-year-Old Virgin" suggested, "Knocked Up" confirms. Judd Apatow is making the freshest, most honest mainstream comedies in Hollywood. The writer-director has managed to synthesize the neurotic, outsider comedy of Woody Allen, the benign satire of Paul Mazursky and the gross-out combustibility of the Farrelly Brothers into a sweet,...
MANCHESTER CITY 0 ASTON VILLA 2 It could be even worse for Manchester City supporters. Losing to United on Saturday in the derby will all but hand their local rivals the title, it is true, but at...
Humorous manual offers realistic, proven advice to managers who are forced to deal with "idiots, whiners, slackers, and other workplace demons!" AMACOM, (800) 714-6395 Circle 40 on card or visit www.nedinfo.ims.ca/6828-40 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED...
Maybe it's the Philadelphia address, but the management team of Home Line Inds., a domestic manufacturer that also imports case goods and upholstery, has a work ethic and unflappable corporate spirit that makes the movie's Rocky Balboa look like a slacker. Recently, I had...
Articles 2007-01-15
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