Word: bosse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know, something. I'd had a Master's in literature when I graduated. Everywhere I went, though, they said the same thing: learn a little shorthand and you'll make a great secretary. So, what did I do? I became a great secretary and married the boss." She grabs her three-year-old down from the tree he is trying to climb. "I love my husband, you know, but I'm... so tired...
Agnew heeded his boss well. Even before his jet was airborne, Agnew began assailing anti-Administration demonstrators. "The primary issue is whether public policy in the U.S. is to be made by elected officials or by people in the streets," he declared at National Airport. At Springfield, ILL., he criticized the "caterwauling critics in the Senate" who oppose the President's Viet Nam policy. They are part of a "misguided movement-an ultraliberalism that translates into a whimpering isolationism in foreign policy, a mulish obstructionism in domestic policy, and a pusillanimous pussyfooting on the critical issue...
...superfluous executives an insupportable luxury. In July, unemployment among professional and managerial employees rose to 394,000-up 74% from a year earlier. Now, though, a method has been developed to take some of the sting and embarrassment out of executive firing. Instead of simply bouncing a subordinate, the boss can send him to a firm that specializes in helping unwanted executives to find new jobs. The practitioners have even coined a euphemistic description for the process: "outplacing" executives who have been "dehired...
...help. "Let's be realistic," North told him. "You got fired, and he [the president] is willing to pay for my program. Let the bastard pay." Tom agreed, but initially he objected to undergoing psychological testing. "I suppose you're going to tell me how good my boss was to me," he argued. Tom's attitude began to change when the psychologist, playing job interviewer, sharply asked how a new employer could be sure that Tom was able to run a cost-cutting program; describing the cost cuts that he had put into effect...
...outplacement specialists see nothing but growth ahead for their business. The increasingly competitive economic climate, they insist, will lead more and more businesses to prune their executive ranks, while expanding firms will continue to seek experienced men. Besides, the outplacers do more than salve the conscience of the boss who sends a dismissed subordinate to them; they also may save him money. Hubbard cites the case of a company that offered to continue the $40,000 salary of a fired executive for a year while he looked for another job. After going through THinc.'s program, the executive quickly...