Employees – The Musings of the Big Red Car

CEO Shoptalk — The New Hiring Dilemma

Big Red Car — Tue, 05 Oct 2021 14:28:48 +0000

I am chatting with three CEOs recently and all are “returning to the office” meaning that in the new world of full vaccination they have re-opened offices and are trying to get back to normal. They have issued recalls — demanded employees return to the office like back in pre-COVID normal times. Normal? Haha. Sure, […]

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Tech Worker Unions

Big Red Car — Mon, 13 Jan 2020 04:32:50 +0000

Further to the blog post I made the other day as it related to the tech worker union situation at Kickstarter and BuzzFeed, I had a couple of very informative emails from folks in the trenches and I’d like to expound on several things. Kickstarter Union — Woke Or A Joke? First, I stand by […]

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Ghosting — An Economic Indicator

Big Red Car — Wed, 19 Dec 2018 19:11:44 +0000

Big Red Car here in the wet and gray ATX reading the Beige Book. Oh, you don’t read the Beige Book? How quaint. The Beige Book is the Summary of Commentary on Current Economic Conditions authored by individual Federal Reserve Districts. The Chicago District had a mention of “ghosting.” Ghosting has crept into the hipster […]

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Recruiting v Hiring

Big Red Car — Sun, 16 Dec 2018 14:35:26 +0000

Big Red Car here on a day with brilliant sunshine, bit of a chill, and off to church to pray for all of us. Glorious Sunday! So, the other day we were talking with some overcaffeinated CEOs about hiring. One point that was left off was the utilization of recruiting as a part of the […]

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Hiring – Thoughts From Overcaffeinated CEOs

Big Red Car — Fri, 14 Dec 2018 17:33:56 +0000

Big Red Car here on a gray, cold day in the ATX. Brrr, it’s 47F (feels like 42F), the start of the next Ice Age — please send some global warming, talking to you, Al Gore. Recently, the Big Red Car was talking to a gaggle of CEOs (gaggle is 4 or more for CEOs) […]

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Employee Retention II — For CEOs Only

Big Red Car — Tue, 07 Feb 2017 15:51:28 +0000

Employee Retention II, Big Red Car, really? Big Red Car here on a glorious Texas day — On Earth as it is in Texas, y’all! Today, we talk about RUNNING A GOOD COMPANY, the first step to employee retention. Each post (interjected amongst posts about other relevant and pressing topics) we will cover the next […]

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Employee Retention, It Can Be Easy — CEOs Only

Big Red Car — Thu, 26 Jan 2017 15:36:02 +0000

Employee retention, Big Red Car? Sounds boring, BRC. Big Red Car here touring the great state of Florida — not me, The Boss. Come home, Boss. Get back to work. So, The Boss is talking to a bunch of his CEOs — brilliant all — and the subject is key employee retention, which The Boss […]

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Thoughts on Hiring

Big Red Car — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:31:40 +0000

Big Red Car here in the beautiful ATX. Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, we have a day like today and a day like yesterday. On Earth as it is in Texas! Hiring is one of the things about building a great startup that is alluded to with a backhanded swipe of […]

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Legacy v startup cultures

Big Red Car — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 14:48:04 +0000

Big Red Car here. Nice, lovely crisp day in the ATX. Going to be a beauty–move to Texas kind of wonderful. But, hey, you already knew that. So The Boss’s offspring are an investment banker and a startup graphic designer. One foot in a legacy company wrestling with becoming a more timely enterprise and a […]

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Asking For And Getting A Raise

Big Red Car — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 14:22:02 +0000

Big Red Car here. Ahhh, the ATX is just glorious these days. Cool weather. Bright skies. Longhons crushing it. Uhhh, well, two out of three isn’t bad, no? Poor Horns. But we did beat Oklahoma and that’s a huge deal. So The Boss’s daughter, that would be The Perfect Daughter, was inquiring about how she […]

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