How content and satisfied are American employees? Not very!

According to Corinne Maier, a psychotherapist and author of Bonjour Laziness, corporate cubicle inhabitants are anything but tranquil and joyous. These natives are truly restless.

This French writer quotes a Gallup study of employed American professionals showing that:

1. Some 17% claim to be "actively disengaged" in their jobs, close possibly to acts of sabatoge, some rather subtle.

2. And 54% claim to be "not engaged" in their jobs.

3. The remaining 29% are "crazy about" their jobs.

These are the attitude findings of "professional" employees. How much worse would these findings be if employees of ALL kinds had been interviewed by Gallup?

And what leads to such overwhelmingly negative attitudes with only 29% job satisfaction, anyway?

Maier explains:

1. "Reverse Verbal Signals" and "The Idiocy Of Lies." Example: a company remarks that it "values jobs" but then has massive layoffs.

2. Add managerial jargon, gibberish, power struggles, excess emphasis on diplomas and degrees, and employers demanding a lot from employees--but promising and delivering next to nothing in return.

3. Also add blathering about the "corporate culture," an "oxymoron which is the crystalization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment," says Maier.

4. And she says don't forget employers talking about "ethics, a detergent word used time and time again to cleanse the conscience without scrubbing."

Well, what's an employer to do?

1. Remove malcontented employees better suited to be self-employed.

2. Refer dissatisfied employees to network marketing (MLM) self-employment opportunities. Some of the biggest "misfits" in the employee ranks become the best entrepreneurs.

3. Conduct in-house meetings to teach remaining employees the threat that outsourcing of jobs to China, India and other countries poses to employers and to employees--motivating them to improve their attitudes, stop whining, and work as a team.

4. Define and remove organizational and procedural stumbling blocks to a job satisfaction. These can require some attitude adjustments in the upper management ranks in some cases.

5. Making sure the business has a Three Year Business Plan--and making sure everyone in the company know where the Plan is taking the company and them--and what their role and responsibility for company success.

Remember: cubicle farm folk are restless and negative. 71% are not happy with their jobs. The status quo just doesn't cut it. The unsettling effects of globalism and offshore outsourcing are permanent. So, act today. Do it now!

John Alquist

John J. Alquist owns and operates Alquist Enterprises, along with his wife, Shirley. The firm promotes self-employment via the professional services and network marketing opportunities offered.

John is a speaker, consultant and author. His first published piece was at age 15, in a Connecticut daily newsletter, blasting a brainless politician. He has been writing ever since.

He started his career after college graduation as a writer for a Connecticut weekly newspaper.

He has been self-employed for 18 years and, prior to that, John spent 24 years in the corporate world, especially senior bank marketing positions.

He was Vice President of Market Planning for Wells Fargo Bank and Vice President & Director of Marketing for BarclayAmericanCorporation, an American commerical and consumer finance subsidiary of the Barclays Bank Group.

John & Shirley life and work in St. Petersburg, FL. John has lived in Connecticut, New Jersey, North Carolina, California, and Florida.

He is a graduate of Providence College, holding a Bachelor of Arts degree.

John is an avid exerciser, eats mostly organic food, and has considerable knowledge of wellness. He takes lots of nutrtional supplements. Though 64, he has a "Real Age" of 53.

Politically, John is a Libertarian. He and his wife, Shirley, are Christians. John is an avid Bible student and researcher.