Here’s an interesting link for a topic that is often avoided: the way women interact in the workplace. In an age of sexual discrimination lawsuits and hypersensitivity to how corporations treat female employees, apparently the taboo subject is how female co-workers treat each other. For another interesting discussion of women in the workplace and how [...]
Posts Tagged as ‘Business’
May 12, 2009
The New Vogue Style: Frugality
Apparently name brand businesses reduced costs on their chic products to bring lower priced quality products. Why did this take so long? People, like me, stopped paying in excess of $2 per cup of regular coffee in favor of making coffee at home and Starbucks lowers the price. Who knew? I spend less than $6 [...]
February 23, 2009
Service Industry?
As the economy tanks, people working in the service industry start to believe that tips are an entitlement. Quite frankly, a tip or gratuity is not part of the payment required when eating out. Lately, the service I’ve received at chain restaurants has been hit or miss. Best I can tell, the restaurants create the [...]
June 19, 2008
Security System Search: Day 3
Yesterday, one company returned my phone call. He gave me an estimate over the phone without seeing my home and assessing it for vulnerabilities. Not inspiring. While on the phone with him, I was placed on hold or held on while he spoke on another phone at least two times. I can’t help wondering is [...]
June 17, 2008
Valuable Resource: Consumer Reports
Following my burglary and a home invasion a few blocks down the street, I’ve decided to purchase a home security system. My first stop-consumerreports.org and thank God for them. The advice of consumer reports was beware of “van ready to install your system today” and “be wary if the rep does not take time to [...]
May 17, 2008
Bad Jobs can Kill
People forced to endure unpleasant jobs and unpleasant people in their jobs suffer from an increased stress level, according to UPI, today.
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/05/16/scientist_smiling_can_hurt_your_health/2772/
Maybe bad jobs do not kill immediately, but workers do suffer adverse stress consequences which carry over into other parts of their lives. So here’s news, if you hate your job, quit and find [...]
May 16, 2008
Ending an Era
Today, Barnett’s News Stand in downtown Athens, Georgia, closes for the last time. Barnett’s falls victim to the internet age and healthy living movement. Serving a predominantly college clientele, Barnett’s stock mostly tobacco and print media are no longer in vogue. I can read the news on my crackberry. No one smokes anymore. One exception, [...]
May 8, 2008
Fair Weather Employers
The Weather Channel, currently marketing itself as a television channel worth millions, perhaps billions, to would be buyers, faces the bad choices made by the leadership of that channel. Instead of firing Bob Stokes when the first female co-anchor complained of sexual harassment, management moved the co-anchor to an unfavorable overnight shift and kept the [...]
