Fire Your Boss (32 page)

academic environment

achievements, job-related

résumé listings of

work plans and

achievers, Maslow’s theory and

advancement

opportunity for

promotions and

aesthetic needs

Age Discrimination in Employment Act

alternate courses, definition of

alumni groups

amenities

as job offer consideration

American Management Association

Americans with Disabilities Act

anger

fighter-type bosses and

unemployed people and

Anheuser-Busch

appearance, personal

associations, professional

attitude, adjustment in

automobile allowances

baby boomers

backstabbing

Bell, Nancy

belongingness needs

Ben & Jerry’s

benefits, employee

bonuses

health insurance

investment plans

paid personal time

paid sick days

pensions

retirement plans

trading of for money or time off

vacation time

Betts, Sam

biological needs

blame, coward-type bosses and

bonuses

bosses

discovery of employee’s job fishing by

needs of

success of as employee job security factor

wants of

boss types

buddy

coward

fighter

glory seeker

loner

stickler

brownnosing

buddy-type bosses

business organizations

business-related jargon

business strategies, commonality of

careers

definition of

first-time job seekers and

getting what you want and

“having it all” and

jobs vs.

reasons for working and

switching industries and

unemployed people and issues concerning

working to live and

See also
work and workplace

Carpinose, John

Carton, Lucy

Carton, Sydney

challenge, job as source of

Ciannesco, Sara

citizenship status, legal protections and

Civil Rights Act of 1964

civil rights movement

classified ads.
See
help wanted ads

clothing allowances

cognitive needs

Cohen, Nicole

college career offices

community, sense of

commuting distance

company cars

concierge-type services

condottieri

confidence

Connors, Dan

contracts

employment

employment agency scams and

control, personal

alternate course definition and

critical questions concerning

first-time job seekers and

job descriptions and

performance reviews and

quitting job and

switching industries and

unemployed people and

work plans and

conversations, tips for conducting

Corbet, Erin

corporate culture.
See
culture, organizational

corporate scandals

corporate values

cover letters

coward-type bosses

creative fulfillment

creative workers

Crosetti, Janet

culture, corporate.
See
organizational culture

defined-benefit pension plans

defined-contribution pension plans

Derschinsky, Paul

despair

desperation

disability insurance

disabled people, legal protections for

discrimination

job-related

termination issues and

Dorrit, Amy

Douglass, Frederick

Duffy, Tom

eBay

Economic Policy Institute

education

college career offices and

first-time job seekers and

tuition reimbursement

Edwards, Jared

efficiency, profit maximization and

Einstein, Albert

e-mails

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

emotional satisfaction.
See
personal satisfaction

employee benefits.
See
benefits, employee

employee handbooks

Employee Retirement Income Security Act

employment.
See
jobs; work and workplace

employment agencies

job fishing and

scams involving

temporary

use of by unemployed people

See also
headhunters

employment contracts

Endowsky, Larry

entrepreneurs

environment

academic

workplace

esteem, of others

esteem needs

ethnic minorities, legal protections for

expense allowances

eye contact

fear

coward-type bosses and

fighter-type bosses

finance

employer-sponsored investment plans

See also
income

financial problems, company instability and

firings.
See
termination

first-time job seekers, strategies for

Frankfort, Lisa

freelancers

Freud, Sigmund

friendship

cultivation of

as reason for working

fulfillment.
See
personal satisfaction

Gargery, Joe

gays, legal protections for

glory seeker-type bosses

goal setting

gossip

greed

Greenstein, David

group insurance

Habitat for Humanity

Halladay, Jon

handshakes

Harkins, Jody

“having it all,”

headhunters

job fishing and

methods for attracting

private job openings and

use of by unemployed people

workplace value evaluation and

health insurance

helpfulness

help wanted ads

first-time job seekers and

as information resource

job fishing and

use of by unemployed people

workplace value evaluation and

hierarchy of needs

hobbies

homosexuals, legal protections for

Hope, Beth

Hope, Jason

Horn, Greg

human resources departments

Human Rights Law (New York State)

humor

identity

job as source of

work-related

income

first-time job seeker concerns

as job factor consideration

paid time off and

securing largest possible

switching industries and issues about

unemployed people and

work as source of

See also
salary and wages

incompetence

indispensability

industry switching

job description and

job fishing and

informational interviews

inheritances, myths about

insurance

disability

health

life

unemployment

interests, personal

internal job transfers

Internet

help wanted ads and

as information resource

as job-fishing tool

interviews

informational

job fishing and

unemployed people and issues concerning

intrapreneurs

investment plans, employer-sponsored

Jackson, Julius

jargon, business-related

job achievements.
See
achievements, job-related

job descriptions

switching industries and framing of

unemployed people and writing of

job factor checklist

first-time job seekers and

job offer comparison and

planning for leaving job and

switching industries and

job fishing

current boss’s discovery of

first-time job seekers and

interviews and

job hunting vs.

job offers resulting from

plan creation

résumés and

social contacts and

by unemployed people

when switching industries

job hopping

job hunting

changing perspectives on

job fishing vs.

job interviews and

networking and

private job openings and

search length and

social contacts as sources in

unemployed people and

See also
job offers

job market

becoming expert on

current status of

first-time job seekers and

job offers

factors to consider

leveraging of

salary negotiation

timing acceptance of

unemployed people and issues concerning

job profiles

jobs

careers vs.

definition of

firing from.
See
termination

getting what you want and

“having it all” and

internal transfer and

performance reviews and

proactive planning for leaving of

promotions and

quitting of

reasons for working and

switching industries and

transfers and

working to live and

See also
benefits, employee; work and workplace

job security

boss’s success as factor in

job tenure

job titles

journals, professional

Jung, Carl

justice, in workplace

Kahn, Renatta

Kalamos, Tim

Kaplan, Bill

Kent, Joan

Kushner, Harold

labor movement

labor unions

layoffs.
See also
unemployment

learning, opportunity for

leaves of absence

legislation, worker protection

Lewis, Andrea

libraries

life insurance

Linderman, Alex

loner-type bosses

love

as need

on-the-job relationships and

search for

loyalty

Lustick, Sandra

management

Mandel, Liz

manufacturing

marital status, legal protections concerning

marketing

Marshall, Melinda M.

Martin, Frankie

Marx, Groucho

Maslow, Abraham

mastery of jobs and tasks

matching contributions, employer-paid

McCleod, Patrick

meeting people

away from work

as reason for working

See also
personal relationships

memos, communication via

mercantile perspectives, work and

mercenaries

mergers and acquisitions

minorities, legal protections for

Mizrahi, Rachel

money, as reason for working.
See also
finance; income; salary and wages

Moreno, Jenny

Murrow, Jeanie

National Association of Personnel Services

needs

of bosses

Maslow’s hierarchy of

negotiation strategies, salary

networking

changing perspectives on

process used in

unemployed people and

newspapers, as job-fishing tool

New York City

New York State Human Rights Law

Nolan, Liam

office politics

older workers, legal protections for

O’Leary, Debbie

opportunity for learning

optimism