Archives by Tag 'corporate America'

Culture Shock…

By Tom - Last updated: Thursday, November 27, 2008

Ok – this part is different. 55 or so of my workforce are unskilled laborers and Spanish speaking only.  Warm beating hearts all, hardworking, a job to do, a family to feed – but only capable of speaking halting English.  And yes, each are here LEGALLY.  In fact, they had to prove it as a [...]

Record Keeping…

By Tom - Last updated: Monday, November 24, 2008

  Corporate record keeping… I learned from one of those corporate "log-room yeoman" last week.  Holy crap. If I was under-whelmed with how procedural compliance worked, I was certainly taken aback by the in-depth record keeping in place. Apparently, these records, largely dealing with personnel actions, training, business finance, work logs, supply; things like signed [...]

The Big Tour…

By Tom - Last updated: Thursday, November 20, 2008

As part of my indoctrination, yesterday I toured a pharmaceutical company.  Quite an impressive place for the uninitiated.  I was there owing to my need to oversee some of my people who will be conducting work inside clean rooms.  There’s a bit of a process to this incidentally.  There’s the matter of "gowning-in" and "gowning [...]