This post shows that physical health and mental health are intertwined. I look at several working conditions that seemingly should only effect mental health–age discrimination, race discrimination, sex discrimination, sexual harassment, and other harassment–and find that these conditions also lead to poor physical health. On the flip side, I look at working conditions that seemingly […]
Month: March 2020
In this podcast, I interviewed a salesperson at Oscar de la Renta and asked her about Oscar’s brand, culture, and customer service. I discovered that the brand is about being elegant, classy, and one-of-a-kind. There is also something traditional about Oscar de la Renta and they still make use of trunk shows as a major […]
Poshmark is a peer-to-peer marketplace where people can sell new or used apparel and goods. On sitejabber.com, I analyzed 324 reviews on Poshmark–or one year’s worth of reviews starting on March 21, 2019 through March 21, 2020. I found that 44% of all buyer reviews claimed that the seller misrepresented the item for sale. This […]
Suicide in the workplace has been a growing concern. Chart 1, below, shows the upward trajectory of the number of occupational suicides. Between 2011 and 2018, suicides in the workplace grew by 22%–from 250 in 2011 to 304 in 2018. This article suggests that a proximate cause of workplace suicides is inequality. More specifically, I […]
This article analyzes the growth of the brick-and-mortar used merchandise sector, such as Goodwill and Buffalo Exchange, and includes used apparel, antiques, used books, used sporting goods, and other secondhand goods. More specifically, I investigate the growth of establishments in North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) code 453310. The description for code 453310 is: “This […]