In 1978, a country music singer named David Allan Coe took every worker's darkest fantasy and captured it in a song that would become a soundtrack for days of office angst. A burly man - he looks like Hank Williams Jr. eating Willie Nelson - Coe sang:
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. - A new corporate headquarters in Margate, Fla., gives a fresh dimension to the notion that business is a jungle.
When Mika Brzezinski of MSNBC's "Morning Joe" discovered her salary was a mere 7 percent of what the network was paying co-host Joe Scarborough, she thought it was only fair that she got a raise. But her overtures to network executives to get a raise failed. What finally worked was asking in a confident, straightforward way and being ready to walk.
