title: QUIP FACTORY: Millions of Quips, Rips, Dingers, Zingers and Barbs,  and How You Can Create Many More
author: Caleb Spalding Atwood
description: Over the course of a 50-year career in labor relations, Atwood negotiated and administered labor agreements with 22 different international unions, including 13 at a time while labor relations manager at the Detroit News in the 1970s. Additionally, he has taught classes, seminars or workshops for the University of Michigan (his alma mater), Texas A&amp;M university, the University of Nebraska, Northwestern University, the University of Houston and numerous corporations and associations. He has had articles by him or about his work published in Industry Week, Human Resource Management, Behavioral Science Newsletter, National Productivity Report, Communications Briefings, Incentive Magazine, Executive Excellence Magazine, HR Briefing, and the AMA Management Handbook.
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  Contents
  
  
  [Acknowledgments](index_split_002.html#filepos6869) » »
  
  
  [Exposed](index_split_003.html#filepos10412) » »
  
  
  [Not All Tea and Roses](index_split_004.html#filepos14286) » »
  
  
  [That Mess Called Quill](index_split_005.html#filepos19907) » »
  
  
  [Problems Unforeseen](index_split_006.html#filepos29558) » »
  
  
  [A Job Like No Other](index_split_007.html#filepos37366) » »
  
  
  [Aaron the Streeted](index_split_008.html#filepos50098) » »
  
  
  [Alex the Ponderer](index_split_009.html#filepos53629) » »
  
  
  [Aimless](index_split_011.html#filepos62756) » »
  
  
  [Meghan Rules](index_split_012.html#filepos71276) » »
  
  
  [All the Reasons Why Not](index_split_013.html#filepos77284) » »
  
  
  [In the Beginning](index_split_014.html#filepos85976) » »
  
  
  [The Slightest Clue](index_split_015.html#filepos89707) » »
  
  
  [Thinking Like a Necessary](index_split_016.html#filepos95308) » »
  
  
  [Home Sweet Home](index_split_017.html#filepos100476) » »
  
  
  [A Skirmish](index_split_018.html#fil