Last Friday, after sharing the Old 97's new holiday classic from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, I asked LinkedIn for their favorite holiday songs. My LinkedIn community delivered in a major way. So today, I am thrilled to be able to share with you Jon Hyman's LinkedIn Crowdsourced Holiday Music Playlist Extravaganza.
Friday, December 9, 2022
WIRTW #653: the “playlist” edition
Last Friday, after sharing the Old 97's new holiday classic from the Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, I asked LinkedIn for their favorite holiday songs. My LinkedIn community delivered in a major way. So today, I am thrilled to be able to share with you Jon Hyman's LinkedIn Crowdsourced Holiday Music Playlist Extravaganza.
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Friday, December 2, 2022
WIRTW #652: the “caroling” edition
I love a good Christmas song. The problem is that too many of them are just not very good. Today, I'm adding one to your holiday music playlist that is sure to stick with you like the best kind of earworm.
The coolest part was at the end, when the props designer led us into his office and showed us Captain America's shield, Thor's hammer, Doctor Strange's necklace, and Black Widow's batons. I asked if I could hold them and he said, "Absolutely." So I picked up—dare I say wielded—the shield and hammer, which together weighed about 80 pounds. For one shining moment, I could feel the envy of a billion Marvel fans.
These guys are the greatest guys in the world, but they had to be in hell because people complain so much about that makeup when they're in it. But they never once complained. They were singing and playing their instruments for eight hours, and they just kept going and going and going, cut after cut. So they were amazing. They're just the greatest guys, not to mention the greatest music. So I hope this turns a lot more people on to the Old 97's.
I couldn't agree with James Gunn more.
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Friday, November 18, 2022
WIRTW #651: the “thankful” edition
As we head into the Thanksgiving holiday, I thought I'd take a moment to say a few thank-yous, as I have a lot for which to be thankful.
🙏 Thank you to all of my readers, followers, and commenters, here and on LinkedIn and Twitter (for as long as Twitter remains a thing). We might not always agree, but if we did it would be crazy boring.
🙏 Thank you to all of the bad employers, who continue to act before they think (or don't think at all) and provide me content for all of my posts.
🙏 Thank you to my law firm, which supports my online fancies. They hired me to run our labor and employment practice, and didn't bat an eye when I expressed an intent to spread my wings into craft beer law.
🙏 Thank you to all of the organizations that invited me to speak in 2022, and a special shoutout to Business Management Daily, which hosts my monthly column and for which I'll be speaking monthly next year. Also, if you want to toast a beer with me, look for me at the Ohio Craft Brewers Conference in Cleveland from 1/30 – 2/1, and at the national Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville from 5/7 – 5/10.
🙏 Thank you to my family, who continue to support my career.
🙏 Thank you to my daughter, Norah, who still wants to create a podcast with her dad. As for our podcast, our newest episode addresses all things Thanksgiving, or at least all things Thanksgiving that matter, including food, food, food, parades, football, family, and food. You can listen on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon Music, Overcast, Stitcher, our website, or anywhere else you get your podcasts.
Here's what I read this past week that you should be reading, too.
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Friday, November 11, 2022
WIRTW #650: the “Mastodon” edition
Call me a Twitter Armageddon Prepper. I'm not ready to abandon Twitter … yet. Even with Elon Musk in charge, I have 14 years and way too much human capital invested to jump ship even I think the Chief Twitterer is a twit.
- Mastodon has toots (compared to Twitter's tweets).
- Toots are limited to 500 characters (compared to Twitter's 280).
- You can favorite and boost other user's posts (as compared to liking and retweeting), but you can't quote.
- Hashtags are still hashtags.
- Mastodon's layout, look, and feel will appear very familiar on the web and on its mobile app to anyone who's ever used Twitter. Updates, however, are sorted chronologically instead of algorithmically
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Friday, November 4, 2022
WIRTW #649: the “Ye” edition
We need to talk about Kanye.
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Friday, October 28, 2022
WIRTW #648: the “Red October” edition
All of my earliest sports memories involve the 1980 Phillies.
Mike Schmidt's towering home runs.
Steve Carlton's unhittable sliders.
Bake McBride's hair. Pete Rose taking out Bruce Bochy at home plate.
Tug McGraw leaping off the mound after striking out Willie Wilson and sealing the Game 6 victory against the Royals. (It was the first World Series win for one of baseball's oldest franchises, ending its 97-year title drought, and is the defining sports moment of my childhood).
I'll be the first to admit that I've fallen off the Phillies train since their last playoff run ended in 2011. It's a combination of living in Cleveland for nearly 30 years combined with a decade of mediocrity.
Well, I'm back, baby! I've had an eye on the Phillies all season long, but with this month's dominant playoff run, capped off by Bryce's Bedlam at the Bank, I am all in for the Fightin' Phils!!!
If you're still on the fence of who to root for in the World Series, here are 8 reasons the Phillies should (must) be your pick over the Astros (one for each of the Phillies' 8 NL pennants).
- Philly is the underdog. 87 wins and the last team in vs. 106 wins and the best team in the American League. We're Rocky against Houston's Apollo Creed. Who roots for Creed to win?!
- No Philly = no baseball. Philadelphia is the cradle of our nation. Without Philly, there's no America. And if there's no America there's no need for America's pastime.
- The Philly Phanatic is the best mascot in all of sports. No debate. Case closed. (Sorry, Gritty.)
- The Astros win too much. This is their 4th World Series in the past 6 years. It's time for someone (anyone) new. Why not us?
- The Astros are a bunch of stinkin' cheaters. They cheated their way into winning the 2017 World Series and suffered no real consequences. Their bill is way past due, and the Phillies have come to collect.
- This Phillies team is what sports is all about. No prima donnas, just blue-collar attitudes and hard work until the last out. This team never quits and is crazy fun to watch.
- Cheesesteaks > tamales.
- Ted Cruz is an Astros fan. 'Nuff said.
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Friday, October 21, 2022
WIRTW #647: the “paying my debts” edition
You'd think I'd know better.
- A payroll $182 million higher.
- 7 more regular season wins with run differential 176 points higher.
- An MLB-leading 254 home runs vs. a near worst 127.
- Home field advantage in short five-game series.
- Aaron Judge.
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Friday, October 14, 2022
WIRTW #646: the “conceptualized” edition
A "concept album" is an album that tells a story through a single instrumental, compositional, or lyrical narrative or theme. The songs bind together through that theme and hold a larger purpose or meaning collectively than individually.
- David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars
- Genesis – The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway
- Curtis Mayfield – Super Fly
- The Who — Quadrophenia and Tommy (I couldn't pick just one)
- The Kinks – The Kinks Are the Village Green Preservation Society
- Pink Floyd – The Wall
- Green Day – American Idiot
- Liz Phair – Exile in Guyville
- Marvin Gaye – What's Going On
- The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
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Friday, October 7, 2022
WIRTW #645: the “coach” edition
Do you have a side hustle? I now do, albeit an unpaid one. I just started my gig as a volunteer legal advisor for my daughter's high school mock trial team.
This year's case is fascinating. It's a suppression hearing over the issue of whether a student should have been Mirandized prior to being questioned by a school administration and a school resource officer. For the record, the Ohio Center for Law-Related Education's production values are off the chain.
I'm not a criminal attorney, and I've handled exactly one criminal case in my career (which I won at trial). In fact, nearly everything I know about criminal procedure I learned from a law school class I took 27 years ago plus my Law & Order addiction. That said, trial skills are trial skills, and I'm looking forward to using mine to help Lake Ridge Academy's team return to states for the 2nd consecutive year (and the 17th time overall).
While I'm on the topic of my daughter, please do she and I a solid and check out the latest episode of The Norah and Dad Show, now streaming everywhere, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Podcasts, Amazon, Overcast, Stitcher, and on the web.
Here's what I read this past week that I think you should read, too.
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Friday, September 30, 2022
WIRTW #644: the “whitewater” edition
"What's the first film you remember seeing?"
That’s the lead off question on each episode of Films to be Buried With — Brett Goldstein's (aka Ted Lasso's Roy Kent) podcast. Each episode is a long form interview of a celebrity in which they their life story through films. It's a podcast worth celebrating this International Podcast Day and all other 364 days of the year.
The first movie I remember seeing is Race for Your Life, Charlie Brown, a 1977 Peanuts film in which the gang goes to summer camp and takes on a group of bullies in the annual river raft race.
I saw this film at the Woodhaven Mall with Uncle Ron and Aunt Rita … who were most definitely not my uncle and aunt. In fact, I had never met them before that day. I was four years old, and they ran a bus that took groups of kids to the movies during the summer. My parents paid to put their terrified four-year-old on a bus with two strangers to see a movie. I don't remember a thing about that film other than being completely freaked out on that bus and by the entire experience. In fact, it's the scariest movie I've ever seen about a river rafting trip. Thanks, Mom and Dad. 😞
What's the first film you remember seeing? Did it involve two strange adults picking you up at your house on a bus? Or was it an experience as memorable yet less creepy?
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Friday, September 23, 2022
WIRTW #643: the “til I hear it from you” edition
- Labor Relatedly Ep. 4 — via DriveThruHR
- I Always Feel Like Somebody’s Watching Me: Monitoring Employees' Social Media — via Employment Law Today
- Labor Relations Radio, Ep. 36: Weingarten Rights, What They Are and How They're Likely Coming Back to Non-Union Workplaces — via Labor Relations Radio
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Friday, September 16, 2022
WIRTW #642: the “get off our backs” edition
Can you please get off our backs? By "our," I mean management-side labor lawyers.
Like any other attorney, management-side labor lawyers have a job to do and an ethical obligation to represent their clients zealously. Union organizing and recognition is a decided in an election, in which a majority of employees need to choose to unionize. What are employers supposed to do, roll over and let the union walk in unimpeded? As their lawyers we are simply playing our roll in this process. That's all. Is it adversarial? Sure. Does it sometimes get heated? Of course. But management is entitled to be represented just as do the employees seeking to unionize.
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Friday, September 9, 2022
WIRTW #641: the “slim shady” edition
Guess who's back, back again…
After a semi-intentional summer break, The Norah and Dad Show — the podcast I host and produce along with my 16-year-old daughter — is back for Season 2. You find us everywhere podcasts are available, including Apple, Spotify, Google, Overcast, Amazon, Stitcher, and via our website. If you're new to the show, please make sure you go back and check out all of Season 1.
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Friday, September 2, 2022
WIRTW #640: the “Wickens Workshop” edition
When you take over a practice group and are tasked with building it, you naturally have to think of ways to market and grow it. Presenting semi-regular seminars for clients, prospective clients, and referral sources was low hanging fruit. I can talk about employment law all day long. Just give me a topic, a microphone, and an audience, wind me up, and let me go to work. Thankfully, my cohorts in our Employment & Labor Practice Group feel the same way.
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Friday, August 26, 2022
WIRTW #639: the “Gr8” edition
How does your organization help build collegiality among employees?
At my kids' school they do it in the Lower and Middle School with Family Groups, and in the Upper School with Houses (just like in Harry Potter, complete with a year-long House Cup competition).
Each Family Group or House is comprised of a cross-grade mix of students. The goal is to build school spirit, classmate and faculty camaraderie, and student leadership skills.
One of the Middle School's best traditions is Community Building Days, two days of non-academic activities shortly after the start of the school year to help everyone get to know one another better. It always takes place on the Thursday and Friday of the second week of school (yesterday and today), and the entire Middle School sleeps over at school on Thursday night.One additional rite of passage for the middle schoolers is what's known as "Gr8 Night." They sleep over at school for one additional night, the Wednesday night leading into Community Building Days, to further build their leadership skills and to decorate the Middle School in preparation for the arrival of the 6th and 7th graders the next day.
Yesterday morning, the 8th graders welcomed everyone driving onto campus (that's Donovan, in yellow on the left). He looked excited and happy, (relatively) well rested, and ready to tackle what the faculty has to throw at him over the next two days. I can't wait to hear all about it.
Employers, what are you doing to help build camaraderie and collegiality among your employees? The past two and a half pandemic years have been rough on workplace morale and teamwork. I'm curious to learn what you're doing to help bring back some of the sense of "team" that the pandemic and remote work stole from us? Drop a note in the comments below and I'll share some the best or more interesting ideas in a future post.
Here's what I read and listened to this past week that I think you should be reading and hearing, too.
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Friday, August 19, 2022
WIRTW #638: the “DriveThru” edition
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Friday, August 12, 2022
WIRTW #637: the “down on the farm” edition
I grew up in Philadelphia and attended City of Philadelphia public schools. My high school had 4,500 students and was surrounded by barbed wire fencing. In a lot of ways, it felt more like a prison than a school.
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Friday, August 5, 2022
WIRTW #636: the “what the heck” edition
Another week, another podcast appearance. This week you can catch me on What the Heck is Happening in HR, discussing all things employee handbooks.
Here's what I read this past week that I think you should be reading, too.
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Friday, July 29, 2022
WIRTW #635: the “larp” edition
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Friday, July 22, 2022
WIRTW #634: the “%@$&*!” edition
Vacation 💑 |
What is the word for a string of typographical symbols (such as %@$&*!) used in place of an obscenity, especially in comic strips?
Take your best guess in comments, and I'll provide the correct answer on Monday. No Googling!
Here's what I read and listened to this week and last week that I think you should be reading and listening to, too.
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