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The Importance of Employee Insights

Far too often, company policies are crafted at the top and handed down from the top, with no consideration of the people who will be required to work for them. Meanwhile, who is in a better position to tell you what will work and why, than the people doing the job?

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Are Owners and Employees Equals?

The Knead pizza chain in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, recently decided to close for good.

This may have been in response to an effort by its employees to form a union.  The owners aren’t saying.  (They did say that the closure would happen regardless of how the vote to unionize came out.)

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School Teacher Indoctrination

About Teachers Pretending to be ‘Parents’ – Yeah, I Noticed, for the Past 10 Years

No, this is not new, it’s just that their masks have dropped because they believe you can’t do anything about it! ”

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Wal-Mart Walk Out

PeopleofWalmart_logoI know where I am going to shop on Black Friday.  Wal-Mart.

Why?

Because pro-union groups are agitating Wal-Mart employees across the nation to walk-out on Black Friday.  Unions have been trying to ruin Wal-Mart’s price advantage for years, particularity since they got into the grocery business; grocers unions were pissed and still are.

Overall the complaints are the same.  They claim the employer is unfair.  Maybe they are.  But I’ve been an employer.  I’ve run business.  I know what goes down during the application , interview and hiring process.   In past jobs I’ve hired thousands and fired more than a few.  And this relationship can be summed up with this pull quote from this Fox news article.

“If you come into a workplace knowing that’s an agreement you might have to make, then that’s your choice to have that job,” shopper Rae Luce told the station.

Bulls-Eye.

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