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Posted June 1, 2007
The Good
Girls: Sometimes employee's worth not realized until they're
gone
Dear Good
Girls: I read your feature "Fired and Burned" and knew
immediately I was not alone. Although I am still working with my
current employer, we have seen this scene play again and again.
As my fellow employees and I look at each other, we ask, "Who
will be next?"
Thank you
for sharing your insights. I hope that employers are reading
this, so they will be more tactful during their next round of
cuts.
Dear
Reader: Thank you for so vividly describing the mixed feelings
of employees who duck the cuts but then get hit with the one-two
punch of extra duties and anxiety that typically accompanies
being part of a newly downsized work force.
I share
your hope that employers will pay more attention to the lasting
effects of the downsizing process.
Dear Good
Girls: I have enjoyed reading your features. You responded to a
retired lady regarding a Web site that produced "stay-at-home
jobs." I would appreciate that Web site address.
Dear
Reader: Several people wrote asking about the Web site I
mentioned in a column about the possibility of becoming a
virtual assistant, a job that can be done from home.
Virtual
assistants are self-employed entrepreneurs who provide
administrative services for busy professionals, all from their
own home office.
Some
readers of that column were confused, thinking that the Alliance
for Virtual Businesses' Web site — www.alliance
forvirtualbiz.com — is a source for stay-at-home jobs. That is
incorrect.
The
Alliance Web site offers a directory of virtual assistants, an
e-zine with useful tips on managing your business, protecting
your Web site and other hot topics, and links to other people in
the industry.
"We want
to help people who want to become legitimate business owners,
but we are not a temp agency or an employment agency," says
Sharon Williams, chairwoman of the Alliance.
Virtual
assistants who want to work for an agency that finds them
assignments should contact Team Double-Click (www.
teamdoubleclick.com).
Team
Double-Click matches virtual assistants it has trained with
business owners who want virtual support for their small or
home-based enterprises.
Send
Leslie Whitaker e-mail at
leslie@ctwfeatures.com
or write to P.O. Box 11156, Shorewood, WI 53211.
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