By PETER COUTURE, St. Petersburg Times

Wayne Hochwarter was 20 and working in a Chicago grocery store, where it seemed the bosses never lasted too long. A seed was planted.

Now Hochwarter is the Florida State University's Jim Moran Professor of Business Administration, and he's made a career of studying the relationship between supervisor and employee: interpersonal dynamics.

Even if you've never heard of George Barris, you know his work. Especially if you've watched television in the past 40 years or so.

Whether it's the Ferrari trashed in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" or the campy car of a Caped Crusader, the silver screen's four-wheeled vehicles are the ultimate dream machines.

Often, they eclipse the actors.

When the going got tough, Tania Khadder and John Henion got blogging.
After the co-workers lost their jobs with the San Francisco media company Current TV, they decided to vent their frustrations online. Welcome to Unemploymentality.com.

It's a hot and humid day along Florida's gulf coast, but Alonzo Bodden, with his shaved head and dark shades, is the picture of cool.He climbs out of an idling Hummer H1, looks into the camera and proclaims with a drill-sergeant's delivery: "This is man's truck."