Word: shoptalking
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...Shoptalk in a class on managerial effectiveness: "I had a lunatic. I mean, he attacked his boss and chased him out of the building with a stool. Our attempt to fire him failed, so I asked him what he wanted, and he said, 'I want everybody to stay away from me. Everyone is impure.' It was The Twilight Zone. So I said, 'How would you like your own office...
...spending a reported $15,000 a month to rent Plaisance, a 20-room chateau by the sea in Newport, R.I., that he has dubbed Camp Rockport. In groups of a dozen, each of his 220 employees takes a car pool to the mansion for two days of sports and shoptalk with the boss. Rockport, a thriving maker of walking shoes (estimated 1985 sales: $68 million), has been growing so fast that Katz feared he was falling out of touch with employees. Says Katz: "We're trying to be a democratic company, one where people are just as important...
...Indianapolis last month would tell you, entails grave injuries and, always, at least the possibility of wholesale death. The 600 men and women -- fire fighters and police, civil-defense officials, county sheriffs and physicians, scholars and sellers of all kinds of odd equipment -- came for four days of shoptalk at the first World Congress & Exposition for Disaster & Emergency Management. They came to chat about "pain management" and "grief work," about every kind of horror, about all the most public and spectacular ways...
...schoolers. "That's where the homework really starts to pile up for the first time," says Producer Bob Greene. Launched as a pilot last spring, Hotline drew 3,500 calls in twelve weeks, including a daily ring from Avery Smith, 10, a straight-A student (he just loved shoptalk, it seemed). The district allocated $170,000 to bring it back full time for the 1984-85 school year...
...writers whose distinctive voices fill the pages of Ruas' book with shoptalk and gossip have learned to work against this unpromising backdrop. From Eudora Welty, 75, to Scott Spencer, the 39-year-old author of Endless Love, these eloquent veterans also know how to plug along through praise, criticism and indifference. Some careers grow slowly, like redwoods. Each Welty story added a ring to her reputation until today she is treated with the reverence accorded endangered species. Joseph Heller works hard just to keep the standing won nearly 25 years ago with Catch-22. William Burroughs, whose satiric fantasies...