I am honored to win the 2016 Community Media Rika Welch leadership award for community impact; a testimony to the Guests who shared their stories on MidLIFE Matters. In addition, an 2018 interview I did with Judith Altmann, a Holocaust Survivor, won an award. In 2020 and 2021 two other awards acknowledged the content of interviews dealing with Child Sex Trafficking in CT and Non-Profit leadership. In 2023 MidLIFE Matters won First Place for a Profile Talk Show.Short-changed Jobs
Saturday, December 27, 2014 at 09:37AM
R.E.S.P.E.C.T. is in short supply, when jobs have unpredictable hours, no status, low pay and no security. H.R. 101 theory says workers thrive when: They are treated as adults... have mutual trust with management ... and feel respected.
Barbara Ehrenriech chronicled the degrading experiences of women working in service jobs, in her book, Nickled & Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America. She went 'undercover' to produce her journalistic findings on the lack of empathy for the working poor.
A new book, Hand to Mouth - Living in Bootstrap America, written by Linda Tirado, is featured in the NYT Book Review. Sounds like a similar story, but by a bonafide member of the working poor. She is quoted as saying the lack of feeling valued at work made her 'give up caring' about her job. No doubt, making her performance a validation of management's world view.
We have a family member who is underemployed in order to pursue a non-traditional path. These stories ring true.
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