Corporate Crap: Lessons Learned from 40 Years in Corporate America

Corporate Crap: Lessons Learned from 40 Years in Corporate America  takes a humorous look at the business practices that lead employees to look for new employment...like meetings, performance reviews, downsizing, and bosses from hell. And let's not forget the esteem-sapping elements like dress codes, task forces, brainstorming, and engagement surveys; flip charts, org charts, hard stops, and hard-ons. Each chapter includes personal anecdotes, quotes from business experts, and the latest research to answer the burning question: If companies truly believe employees are their most valuable resource, why do they treat them like crap?

In Corporate Crap, readers will learn: 

- How companies are trying to shorten meetings by making everyone stand and other forms of torture.
- Why the founder of Second City Works calls Tina Fey "a genius boss." 
- How the author burned his first professional bridge in his first-ever exit interview.
- Why 700 million vacation days went unused last year. (What is wrong with you people?) 
- The roots of "at the end of the day" and other common expressions.
- Why companies don't call employees "employees" anymore - and how it can backfire on them.
- How hiring managers are affected by stereotypes - and not always how you'd think.
- Why companies' obsession with labeling employees as introverts or extroverts is a complete waste of time.
- The biggest problem companies have firing people.
- Why the idea that "no idea is a bad idea" is a bad idea.
- What people really do during conference calls.

There are lessons to be learned here: lessons that will entertain and inform anyone who has ever worked for a large corporation. Lessons learned from 40 years of Corporate Crap!