Word: baddings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...worker is turned down for a raise, he must be given a less than satisfactory rating for his work, a move that any supervisor contemplates with foreboding. The supervisor is compelled to give the offending employee 90 days' notice before he issues the bad grade. During this time, the employee is able to build up a substantial defense. He can then make a series of appeals with full-dress hearings that can drag on for months. Understandably, managers prefer to give everybody a passing grade in order to avoid the hassle...
...Agency official's 21-month effort to fire a $9,600-a-year stenographer. Various lines snaking through a maze of boxes and triangles denote all the required memos, warnings, suspensions and conferences. The official devoted so much time and effort to the firing that he began getting bad ratings on his own work...
...taxes on time. Boyce, a G52 data transcriber, and Dixon, a G53 file clerk, contended that they relied on their husbands to file the returns and won their appeal to the regional Civil Service Commission and the Appeals Review Board. But the IRS, arguing that it was a bad precedent for IRS workers not to send in their own returns, persuaded the full commission to uphold the workers' ouster. The women won reinstatement with back pay in the U.S. Court of Claims -four years after they first took...
...possible Brown candidacy in recent months. That distinction belongs to veteran Washington Post reporter David Broder, whose piece "Jerry Brown, the Long Distance Runner," can be found in the January, 1978 issue of the Atlantic Monthly. Broder, like Reeves, takes pains to illuminate both the good and bad sides of Jerry Brown, but both men avoid making definitive judgments on Brown's desirability as a presidential contender...
...many observers, the worst aspect of Rupert Murdoch's head-first plunge into the New York media biz two years ago was the possible impact of his sex-and-violence, paper-hawking outlook on the Village Voice. So far it hasn't been too bad, although the past few weeks exhibit a discouraging trend. Certainly the damage hasn't been as complete as the devastation Murdoch brought to the New York Post and New York magazine. In the first year of the mad magnate's reign, the Voice went for hotter, sexier cover stories, but then came a period during...