How to Motivate Your Team

HEY EVERYBODY, I HAVE A NEW NOVEL OUT!

It is called Grand Theft Astro, and it’s available now as an Audible Original. The e-book and paper editions will be out in January, 2022.

Now, on to your regularly scheduled commentary.

Once, in high school, when I was working at a chain restaurant, I made an offhand joke about the crew unionizing. The very next shift the store manager took me aside to explain at stupefying length why unionizing would be a terrible move for the crew, so much so that if I attempted to actually follow through on the idea in any way, she would have to fire me for the common good.

I remember wondering why the idea of the crew unionizing seemed to freak her out so badly.

In retrospect, the fact that she would regularly have me—a restaurant worker—wash her car, watch her kid while I worked, and on one occasion go to the store with her kid and a list of household items to buy for her (including pantyhose) might have had something to do with it.

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