The Christmas gift I have for you this year seems kind of old fashioned because, like with Santa, it’s handmade and I’ve been working on it in my workshop all year. Several years in fact. A lifetime really.
Nearly 60 years ago a pair of pill pushers (pharmaceutical distributors) in a small town outside of Pittsburgh moved their operation south to another small town in the heart of West Virginia.
My development of a socially responsible, self-managed, profit-sharing (SSP) business model led me to design a Company of One Plus (TCO+) that will make the dream come true and simultaneously spawn a network of companies committed to changing the way capitalism and economics works.
My NotMyEconomics online course is non-partisan and I try to keep my students out of political discourse except in the Red Zone where I present 13 essays describing the dark side of economics.
Recommendation: If you have not read Ode #1 and Ode #2, start there.
See Ode to an Employee — #3 below
Most of us might overcome our economic unhappiness by choosing the alternative of entrepreneurship. Many have tried. Most have failed.
Recommendation: If you have not read Ode #1, you should start there.
See Ode to an Employee — #2 below
I cast the character in Ode #1 as a hotel worker because those who work in the hospitality industry are among the most underpaid and insecure in America. But they are not alone. Most of us . . . whether we work in a kitchen, on an assembly line, on a farm or in an executive office tower . . . we live tenuous lives.
See Ode to an Employee — #1 below
I would not be surprised if your story is similar to that of the employee in my ode because the bonds between employer and employee have so eroded over the last several decades that job security is a thing of the past for most workers. And turnover is a given for most companies.
Employers have no commitment to their employees and employees have no commitment to their employers.