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Tag: Corporate Layoffs

  • Marketing: “They Live”

    I continue my unexpected second act as a stockboy and no, a stockman at a liquor store. And if there’s one thing that jumps out at me every shift, it’s this: The liquor industry has become a full‑blown marketing circus. After decades in corporate America, I thought I’d seen every branding gimmick imaginable. But stepping…

  • FULL CIRCLE — From Corporate America to Stockboy Swagger

    There’s a scene in the 1991 movie Career Opportunities that sums up my career life right now. No, not the part with the horse. It’s the moment when Jim, the main character, talks with Josie. They converse: “I set my sights on something and go for it. Like janitor?” “It’s a beginning, no it’s an…