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Take Job For Granted, Get Fired

Monday, 06 September 2010 16:27 | Written by Wil Laveist | PDF | Print | E-mail

By Wil LaVeist
Columnist/Blogger

By now, with the unemployment rate at 9.6 percent, many of us know that losing a job can be devastating. I published my award-winning book, “Fired Up” after I was blindsided by a firing in 2006 before the recession kicked in the end of 2007. The book was therapeutic for me and continues to help many others who are in crisis. It has also enlightened employers on more humane ways to let people go. 

But there are times when a firing is well earned, or a person should resign. Two news stories around the Labor Day weekend make this point.

Last Updated (Monday, 06 September 2010 16:46)

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Graduation Speech Signals Obama-Harvey Bond

Thursday, 06 May 2010 00:00 | Written by Wil Laveist | PDF | Print | E-mail

By Wil LaVeist

 

As the Hampton University campus flows with caps and gowns during President Barack Obama’s commencement address this Sunday, the historic moment will be no surprise to those who have been watching the pattern:

• September 2009, John Wilson, Jr., executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, speaks at HU’s convocation

• January 2010, HU’s band “The Force” marches in the Inaugural Parade

• February 2010, Obama names President William R. Harvey chair of the President’s Board of Advisors on Historically Black Colleges and Universities.

Last Updated (Monday, 06 September 2010 17:03)

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Decade of Preparation Ends

Friday, 01 January 2010 00:00 | Written by Wil Laveist | PDF | Print | E-mail

By Wil LaVeist


Ten years ago the world was supposed to end. I remember Dec. 31, 1999 as though it were yesterday. My wife and children and I were huddled on Wacker Drive in downtown Chicago as midnight approached. For months there was spooky talk about the “Y2K bug,” that since computers weren’t programmed to identify the year 2000, machines were going to fail. Planes could drop out of the sky. Electricity could shut down, turning cities dark. Prepare for anarchy in the streets was the warning.

 

Last Updated (Saturday, 13 March 2010 00:39)

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Victory Worthy Of Tears

Saturday, 07 July 2007 09:54 | Written by Wil Laveist | PDF | Print | E-mail

By Wil LaVeist

It was a time to cry.

A time for men who for their entire lives had fought stereotypes:

You’re lazy and shiftless. You’re dumb and violent. You don’t take care of your children. You’ll never mount to anything. You’re not good enough.

It was a time for men who had beaten the stereotypes, but for whom life in America remains a psychological wrestling match with their backs against the mat.

Last Updated (Sunday, 11 April 2010 02:04)

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