Paul Hastings In The Workplace

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Your boss is breathing down your neck, your coworker is hogging the printer, and someone did not refill the old coffee maker in the conference room. Any of this feel familiar? If you want to go into the business world, these are some things that just may be in store for you. Of course, these are miniscule things that cause a bit of annoyance, but there is so much more to the workplace than these little issues- Paul Hastings would surely know. Paul Hastings has been in the workplace for most of his life, from working on a fruit farm in high school, to being the owner of his own insurance business. Paul Hastings shares his personal background and experiences to display how the workplace is not just a crowd around the water cooler. From interacting …show more content…

Hastings began working as a teenager in a concrete factory and at a fruit farm. After high school, he joined a Military Police school and joined the army, becoming a very disciplined military policeman. He was discharged and followed his path to college, worked in a bank, and then got into the insurance business. After many hard years of working his way up in the insurance business, Paul was promoted to Vice President at the age of thirty six. After moving from position to position, Paul Hastings bought out an insurance agency and made it his own; it was called DesignPro Insurance Group. Here he became the boss and developed a whole new perspective on employee the workplace …show more content…

But that is not all that this employee did; when Hastings decided to sell his insurance agency, the problematic employee claimed that Mr. Hastings said that he would give him part of the company’s stock, and even filed a lawsuit against Mr. Hastings for part of the cash. In the end, Mr. Hastings settled the case just to stop the court proceedings. This employee was terminated. During this time, the office atmosphere became more heavy and stressful, as “a business needs good employees to survive and good leaders, from managers to the CEO.” Even though Paul did run into some office space troubles in his business career, it gave him the gift of walking away with a set of knowledgeable skills to carry with

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