This article was published in American Thinker on December 18, 2011. The thesis is that Corporate Psychopaths were a major factor in the recent financial meltdown. Corporate and political leaders enriched themselves while hard working Americans were substantially impoverished and were left with huge debts. The Corporate Psychopaths Among Us Hannibal Lecter was a fictional [...]
Your boss is not crazy, it’s worse than that. The “bully boss” is the accepted Human Resources term for abusive managers, of which there are many. Various HR studies tell us that up to half of all workers may be subject to an abusive boss at some point in their working lives. Half of all [...]
Memorable SOBs in Inaction. All personal and all commercial company names involving SOB personalities are false. After O’Bee. After four intense, disturbing experiences with SOB Personalities in a twelve-year period, it was obvious that the corporate culture in the manufacturing environment where I met Mr. Hendrey was different than the mining company culture where I [...]
Memorable SOBs in Inaction. All personal and all commercial company names involving SOB personalities are false. Mr. O’Bee, Logistics Manager After the job in the manufacturing plant, I moved to a logistics job in a different industry, a large mining operation. The first formal statement from my new manager, Mr. O’Bee, was “I have a [...]
Memorable SOBs in Inaction. All personal and all commercial company names involving SOB personalities are false. Hendrey, the Accountant Mr. Hendrey was an accountant by education before becoming plant manager. The only useful professional function he regularly performed in the Plant was the afternoon reconciliation of production data. The Production Superintendent would take a raw [...]
Memorable SOBs in Inaction. All personal and all commercial company names involving SOB personalities are false. Hendrey, Plant Manager Before I met Mr. Hendrey, he had been promoted to Plant Manager of a small manufacturing facility. His previous job was in the corporate accounting office 2000 miles away. Hendrey was selected to be Plant Manager [...]
Memorable SOBs in Inaction. All personal and all commercial company names involving SOB personalities are false. Lt. Colonel Kaye About two year after the experience with Captain Oakes and on the other side of the world, I met and worked for a Lt. Colonel Kaye who was quite similar in many ways to Captain Oakes. [...]
Memorable SOBs in Inaction. All personal and commercial company names involving SOB personalities are false. Captain Oakes The first SOB I met up close and personal was Captain Oakes. My infantry platoon ran a problem against the Special Forces unit in Bad Tolz in Bavaria. My jeep broke down one evening on a mountain trail [...]
