I got my first job at age 16. I was a clerk at a locally-owned grocery store in my hometown of Winchester, Kentucky, happy with the $1.60 per hour starting salary. I did my work to the best of my ability. I was thrilled when I got my first raise of five cents per hour. …
Tag: Fairness
The Paula Deen Controversy
Has there been a single major newscast in the past week that did not talk about the current Paula Deen controversy? Not that I can recall. For those of you living under a rock, she has been in the news for revealing in a deposition that she used a racial slur - the so-called "N-word" …
Leap Year Lesson #355: You’re Likely Being Fair if Both Sides Accuse You of Favoritism
Very few days go by without someone complaining to me about something happening in our company's internal social network. Usually it's about a specific discussion that someone takes offense at or because they think a rule or two have been broken that requires my intervention as community manager. That goes with the territory of managing …
