Author: Gini Graham Scott
Publisher: AMACOM
Keywords: whiners, slackers, workplace, demons, idiots, handling, guide, managing, employees, hell, survival
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2006-12-08
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 081447408X
ISBN-13: 9780814474082

All managers get saddled with "problem" employees from time to time; what sets great managers apart is how they deal with them. Drawing from real-life stories, this helpful and humorous guide provides readers with practical advice for handling a wide range of difficult types, including: * The Impossible "I"s: Incompetents, Idiots, and Imbeciles -- clueless employees who simply don t know what they re doing * The Bull in the Office China Shop -- the frequently angry worker ready to confront anyone and everyone * The Party-Time Performer -- the employee who, although great with

Author: Rosemarie Ostler
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: decade, vocabulary, twentieth, century, vanishing, guide, waldos, slackers, dewdroppers
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2005-09-15
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 0195182545
ISBN-13: 9780195182545

Every era of the twentieth century from the "Roaring Twenties" to the "Me Decade" brought its own fads and trends and the language to go with them: fresh youth slang, up-to-the-minute buzzwords, and colorful catch phrases. Most of this new vocabulary exploded into the vernacular, only to fizzle a few years later as newer trends and more current events demanded their own terminology. Giving yesterday’s words another chance to sparkle before they retire for good, Dewdroppers, Waldos, and Slackers focuses on language that still resonates with the mood of its times. A nostalgic word trip thr