Here’s the Corporate BS for November 23-29:

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The day after Thanksgiving is often called Black Friday. It’s the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season. It’s ordinarily the busiest shopping day of the year.

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In 1863, during our nation’s greatest crisis, Abraham Lincoln proclaimed a national Thanksgiving Day, to be observed on the last (later changed to fourth) Thursday in November. His declarative words deserve recollection.

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I’ll probably have a Thanksgiving post tomorrow and then a Black Friday post the next day. So, my blogging activity will be a bit on the scarce side for the next couple of days. I hope all of you have a Happy Thanksgiving, and if you’re lucky enough to have both Thursday and Friday off, make the most of it. Get some rest. 

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Read today’s post by Managing Leadership. It does a wonderful job of setting the tone for the observance of Thanksgiving, particularly in this time of uncertainty. I predict it’ll get you in a better mood for this year’s holiday.

Last week, I wrote that about the only thing giving me cheer lately was what seemed to be a new trend of dressing up at work. Then I read Christina Binkley’s article in the Wall Street Journal on workplace dress and immediately came down with a case of the blues.

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When we think of Thanksgiving, we probably don’t think of Cicero, Roman statesman, lawyer and philosopher. But Cicero had a way with words, and he said something that’s appropriate for a Thanksgiving quote, because his words give thankfulness the kind of expanded meaning it’s due.

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Execupundit is always the purveyor of wisdom. This bit of wisdom focuses on people who believe and people who don’t and how to deal with them. As you read this Execupundit post, think about whether you are a believer and whether you lead people to believe or not.

I have written previously about The Man Gene because of its impact on a significant workplace subject. Sexual harassment charges are filed every day. Employees are frequently fired for inappropriate sexual conduct. The Man Gene elucidates the sexual divide between men and women and exposes the challenge of complying with the law in today’s society.

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I’ve written a fair amount about how the economic crisis is impacting the workplace. As part of this, I’ve commented on the bailouts and various things related to them. As usual, Eclecticity takes a different kind of look at all this.

As reported in The Laconic Law Blog, a record number of charges were filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission during the agency’s fiscal year 2008. Check out the EEOC’s report referenced in The Laconic Law Blog for more information.

Last year in November, I did a post covering various legal pitfalls that surface during the holidays. You might want to give this previous post a quick review, even though many employers are scaling back usual holiday plans this year.

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It’s been about a week since the The Chronicle of Higher Education reported on the compensation of college and university presidents. It caused a bit of a stir, just like any report on highly paid executives would cause these days. Maybe college presidents are smarter than other executives.

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Here’s the Corporate BS for November 16-22:

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