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May 10, 2022

What Do You Do When A Good Employee Asks For A Raise?

Paul Daniels wrote a great blog last week in our Tuesdays with Paul.  He wrote about an employee (let’s call her Paula) who walked into the office where she works (surprise…the company is Paul’s Glass Shop) and asks Paul, the owner, for a raise.  This happened in April of this year. Paul and Paula spoke for 10 minutes and Paula told Paul she would like […]

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May 3, 2022

When Do You Give a Pay Raise?

How do you accept or turn down a request for a wage increase in your business? This month it’s my turn to start a discussion with Paul Bieber and give him a chance to rebut next week. An issue that we hear all the time is the challenge of finding good people. The other side of this is how we keep our employees, especially when […]

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April 19, 2022

Glass Expo Northeast Wrap Up – the Industry is Seeking Knowledge

In the last two weeks, I have had a chance to attend two trade shows: Glass Expo Northeast, which was held in Long Island, New York, and the 2022 Glass and Glazing Forum run by the Finishing Trades Institute in Southern California. It was great to be part of these in-person events. They were both very well attended by vendors as well as trade professionals, […]

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November 29, 2016

Five Hundred and Counting

What’s that mean? Five hundred what? Today’s post is my 500th blog on the USGlass News Network (USGNN.com™). A tad more than ten years at a keyboard. A quarter million words, give or take. About 1,500 hours. And I just plain love it. Writing this blog keeps my head in the glass industry. In fact, it forces me to keep current on lots of things, […]