Word: on-the-job
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...on-the-job training: Fulton requires her charges to E-mail their questions and comments to a list of their classmates, a task that stimulates student participation. Classroom discussions thus quickly spread outside -- in fact, right into cyberspace. Says senior Cara Chotiner: ``I learned so much by reading what people wrote -- things that they didn't have time to say in class.'' As so often happens on electronic message boards, tongue-tied wallflowers blossomed into confident -- and prolific -- E-mail correspondents...
Interesting "on-the-job" tales: We used to go out to coffee shops during the actual funeral mass, and one time the funeral director ordered some extravagant omelette, so we were late getting back to a funeral--so the priest actually had to stall during the service...
That could leave Balladur and Chirac facing each other in the May 7 runoff. Chirac's hopes would then depend on winning substantial support among traditionally leftist voters. He is already wooing them with a social program that includes emergency job programs for the long-term unemployed and on-the-job training for young people. But credibility is a problem. Chirac has changed his views so often--he went from state dirigisme in the '70s to Reagan-style free-marketry in the '80s--that many people are skeptical...
Guards have accused Dowling for years of favoritism and even racial discrimination in shift assignments, on-the-job treatment and overtime pay, but Dowling has denied the charges and a University-sanctioned investigation last year found them groundless...
...with 222,000 employees in 100 countries, has had only three criminal convictions in the 13 years that Welch has run the company. Another points out that the U.S. Justice Department, which has been hounding GE lately, has had 140 of its employees prosecuted for corruption or other on-the-job offenses just since 1992. Yet another shows that GE is headed for its most profitable year ever...