Word: bosses
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...twice fired. Will I be tagged a troublemaker? Why does my secretary resent picking up my laundry and balancing my checkbook? My boss throws temper tantrums. What do I do? Well, you could ask Andy. In a column published each Wednesday in the San Jose Mercury News, Andrew Grove, president of Intel, a semiconductor manufacturer, answers questions about the woes of the workplace. Since last October, Grove has been dealing with two letters a week in the column "High Output Management," which has been modeled after "Dear Abby...
...down, Navy Secretary John F. Lehman levied a fine and penalties against General Dynamics for "a pervasive corporate attitude . . . inappropriate to the public trust." The fine was $676,283.30, ten times the amount of gratuities that the company gave Admiral Hyman Rickover, 85. For three decades, Rickover was the boss of the Navy's nuclear submarine-building program, a large part of which was carried out at General Dynamics' Electric Boat Division in Groton, Conn. Lehman also took two Navy contracts worth $22.5 million away from the company, and will reopen them to competitive bidding. Finally, the Navy announced that...
...tired. My old man . . . he left me," she says, the tears coming faster now. "The judge says he's going to take my kid away if I can't take care of him, so I stay up all day and just sleep when he takes a nap and the boss yells at me and . . . and . . . the truckers all talk dirty . . . I'm so tired...
...boss, well, he's a love, but some of the others aren't so hot. But it's a job. Gotta work somewhere. I need a day off though. Been working six, seven days straight lately. Got shopping to do. My lawn needs mowing...
...also loved Carole Lombard and Judy Holliday and Marilyn Monroe. They were all just incredibly funny, and they were silly and sweet and they were girls and they were feminine and sexy. I just saw myself in them, my funniness and my need to boss people around and at the same time be taken care of. My girlishness. My knowingness and my innocence. Both. And I remember Nancy Sinatra singing These Boots Are Made for Walkin' and that made one hell of an impression on me. And when she said, "Are you ready, boots, start walkin'," it was like, yeah...