(Email Removed) spake thus:=20 I'm trying to understand what 'picket' means, which is a word often used in the recent grocery worker strike. Here's ... To put? =20 picket: a person posted by a labor organization at a place of work

Woody Wordpecker filted: Despite having come in a hard-fought second for the spelling championship of Boulder City, Nevada, in 1935*, I was unaware for many years that "dimunition" and "vacumn" were not widely accepted

Default User (Email Removed) wrote on 09 Nov 2003: I merely report what I experience. Me, too. Egalitarianism in the office is nonsense if there is a vertical structure of authority and responsibility. Not at all. While your supervisor has

"rzed" (Email Removed) wrote on 08 Nov 2003: Okay, but you changed the game. "Immediate subordinates" as a term is not the same as "subordinates." In my company's ... fairly harmless fluff in this case, I think.

Of course, successfully picking the leader of a big public company has always been tricky, because the job requires at ... failed the hedgehog one. I know foxes for their cunning, but I don't understand hedgehogs? Big things for hedgehogs?

Hi, Of course, successfully picking the leader of a big public company has always been tricky, because the job requires at least two quite different skills. Like the fox, a chief executive must know lots of little things, must manage successfully

There is, of course, a difference between "subordinates" and "direct ... in this case; it's a different way of ordering reality. Reality isn't expressed by "I have seven direct reports". The manager with those 7

Bob Planet (Email Removed) wrote on 08 Nov 2003: Hi, my native language is German, and sometimes you cannot translate words 1:1. So in German we have the word ... and hope you can fill in the right word in the '...' :-) 1) My company has

Hi, my native language is German, and sometimes you cannot translate words 1:1. So in German we have the word "Mitarbeiter", dictionaries tell you the translation: - employee - colleague - staff - co-worker and some more.. I'd just

Taking away the mortgage interest deduction and similar subsidies doesn't ... one. People will build dwellings intended for rental to tenants. I would not use "subsidy" in this way. To me, it would be a subsidy only if the government