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Layoff Notices: What They Say and What They Really Mean

Real quotes from layoff notices tech CEOs sent to their employees… along with translations to what they may really mean.

Jan 23, 2023

A giant hand prepared to “flick” a person, representing a powerful person disposing of an employee.

Jan 23, 2023

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Job Postings: What They Say vs. What They Really Mean

It’s a good time to translate job postings — from what they say…to what they really mean.

Jul 27, 2021

An engraving that reads: “A Translation — From One Language to Another

Jul 27, 2021

Moving to Substack

I’m consolidating all of my articles (the archive and everything forthcoming) on my new substack newsletter, Heigh Ho.

Feb 23, 2023

Moving to Substack

Feb 23, 2023

Is Your Job Description Full of Scrap?

A colleague, Zack, sent me a job announcement describing a role in his company he thought I’d be perfect for.

May 26, 2022

Scrappy bird ready to fight

May 26, 2022

We Won’t Let Go of the Handshake

“We Must Charge at Each Other with Appendages Extended”

Mar 11, 2022

We Won’t Let Go of the Handshake

Mar 11, 2022

Hard-to-Believe Reviews for the New HeadShapes Mindfulness App!

No10Q Software introduces HeadShapes™ — the mindfulness app that gets your head, and your hubby’s, into shape. Read the “real” reviews…

Sep 1, 2021

Hard-to-Believe Reviews for the New HeadShapes Mindfulness App!

Sep 1, 2021

Give Employees Dog Poop in Their Meditation Rooms?

At the small consulting company in northern California where I was employed during the tech boom of the late 1990s, we had eight or nine…

May 24, 2015

Give Employees Dog Poop in Their Meditation Rooms?

May 24, 2015

Bob Merberg

Bob Merberg

I post mostly at https://heighho.substack.com/ .... about work, workplaces, and worker wellbeing. Subscribe for free.

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