MakingLight reports on a Sting

Back when I was investigating grey-marketers and various fraud-types, there was nothing I loved better than a darn good sting operation. Teresa Nielsen Hayden talks about the sting that various SF and fantasy writers and others took part in (with the blessings of the TLA) against PublishAmerica.

The book excerpts are both a scream to read and fine examples of how *not* to write. The book is available for purchase, and I sure know that I'm going to buy a copy!

Job Satisfaction and Health

An interesting abstract regarding job satisfaction and health. Back in grad school V1.0, when I was doing I/O Psych, anything that showed an r-squared greater that 0.3 was paid attention to.

That the correlations are greater than 0.3 (which usually indicate multiple factor correlation) are interesting in that, while there are other facotrs, there's definitely something going on here.

A no duh--if employees are unsatified with their job, their health suffers. It's a good thing that the studies are being done, because we need something other than a gut feel in this area.

I've just finished "How Full is Your Bucket", which explores a number of the same themes. Are we getting back to job satisfaction as an area of interest to employers? I'm interested in whether this is a more positively (aka "Happy employees are productive employees") or negatively (aka "Employees who leave cost us a bundle to replace, and the lawsuits! We need to fix this!") motivated event.

When good hockey players do bad things

Or this is nature's way of telling you that you have too much money!

Not sure what's worse--the music or the schmaltzy photos.