Tea at Trianon: 'Boomerang Workers'

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Tuesday, November 8, 2022

'Boomerang Workers'

From EuroNews:

There has been a recent buzz around the concepts of "quiet quitting" - and "quiet firing" - on LinkedIn and beyond, and another work-related phrase is starting to have its moment now. With many companies struggling to hire the right talent, and in the wake of the turmoil caused by the coronavirus pandemic, so-called "boomerang employees" are stepping into the limelight. Boomerang employees are people who leave one place of work for another, before going back once again to the original employer. Analysis of a global data set from HR analytics platform Visier found around a third of external hires are boomerang employees. Visier’s Boomerang Workers report was based on data containing 15 million employee records from more than 15,000 companies globally. (Read more.)