“We Exist for the People Outside These Walls”
What does it look like when that message does not line up with reality?
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deconstructing-ramsey
Comparing the Non-Disparagements of a “Christian” Workplace
Last week there was a large update in the court case of a woman who is engaged in a lawsuit against my former employer, Ramsey Solutions. There are on the order of 1,000 pages that were released of depositions and e-mail threads in documents 93 and 94 on the case. While reading through those, one thing I noticed was the evolution of the NDAs used
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Why Write About Lampo (dba Ramsey Solutions)?
I’ve been asked a handful of times why have I occasionally written about The Lampo Group LLC (d/b/a Ramsey Solutions)? Why use this space to talk about a previous employer? A quick disclaimer: views expressed below are my, Dan Watt’s, own. The domain name should make that obvious. I think the problem is the assumption that this was just an employer. Some on the outside,
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Should My Behavior or Opinions Affect My Spouses’ Employment?
How much should my opinions or actions should affect my spouses’ employment. Should it matter? Should her actions or opinions affect my employment? Real life experience shows that there are some employers out there who will fire you for something your spouse does.
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Reflecting on the Good
A good number of people I’ve worked with over the past 10 years and I have been reflecting on our time working for a place that turned out to not be what we thought it was. In doing so, it is so easy to get caught up in the bad things, that it is hard to reflect on the parts that were good. I had
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One Year Later
A year ago today I had to make a tough decision. I thought I had found the place that I could work at until retirement, or at least until I was ready to do my own thing. I thought I worked for people of integrity. But, I was always open to new information, and some finally was revealed that called all of that into question.
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Righteous Living as a Corporate Value
We are nearing the end of the first wave of the COVID-19 shutdown. Tennessee is set to “re-open” at the end of this month, and people will start returning to work. This includes my team. This past month of working from home has afforded me the opportunity to clean up my home office / homeschool room / dumping ground, and I finally cleared some room
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