I know there are millions of people unemployed right now and one of them broke through the email and message clutter the other day to ask me one important, blunt and direct question: ”Why Is It So Hard To Get a Job?” I thought I would take a stab at an answer. !. Companies are [...]
Female Staff in Norway Ordered To Wear Red Bracelets During Their Period
Posted in December 1st, 2010
by admin in Work-related
Ed Note: Thanks to Newser and The Daily Mail, UK, for the initial reporting on this career and jobs story. And just when I thought reporting on careers and jobs was dead and in the dareitsayit toilet, the Daily Mail’s Ian Sparks, its young crack, ace reporter goes after this small company in Norway. No [...]
Cyber Monday: Let’s Make a Deal, winkwink
Posted in November 29th, 2010
by admin in Work-related
Isn’t America great? Today is Cyber Monday. I bet they don’t have Cyber Monday in Peru or France. CM comes after Black Friday which is the day we all drag our asses to the mall to do Christmas shopping. Since cyber sellers know their market, their day is not the day after Thanksgiving, but the first [...]
Comments Off
Lost at Sea: How 3 Boys Spent 50 Days
Posted in November 28th, 2010
by admin in Work-related
Did you hear about those three teenage boys who took their dingy…God, I love that word…out into the Pacific chasing a girl. They were lost for 50 days. Women are calling this is a stupid stunt, men are wondering what the girl looked like. How would three boys spend seven weeks, out in the ocean alone [...]
Straight Talk For College Sophomores
Posted in November 27th, 2010
by admin in Work-related
Bad word alert. This is directed at you college sophomores. Most of you do not have a genie. It’s taken nearly two years away from home but it looks to me like you are finally getting your shit together. You can’t carry it yet, but you are getting it together. So, good going. So far. [...]
Comments Off
Pre-Thanksgiving: Someone is Going to Get Hurt
Posted in November 25th, 2010
by admin in Work-related
by CAL, Curmudgeon at Large My job at the pre-Thanksgiving here is peeling potatoes. Not that I am bad at it, but my suggestion to get the Costco instant version was deemed as me-trying-to-get-out-of-work. This suggestion was offered only because I had heard that a local caterer used Costco’s potatoes. But the professionals laughed and [...]
Tonight’s Bobby Flay Throwdown, 8 pm, CST
Posted in November 24th, 2010
by admin in Work-related
It takes a big event to get me to miss Modern Family, but I am going to miss it tonight. My friends, Cal and Jack, own Hancock Gourmet Lobster, up in GodKnowsWhere, Maine. It’s a small business…or at least it started that way…and I lovelovelovelove their food. Calling it “food” is like calling Sarah Palin [...]
Look Who Followed Me First
Posted in November 23rd, 2010
by admin in Work-related
Lee Meriwether @LeeMeriwether Los Angeles, CA Bio Former Catwoman, Miss America and actress from Barnaby Jones, Batman, Star Trek & All My Children 273 1,502 2,519 tweets following followers
Fix the Little Things First is My Advice
Posted in November 23rd, 2010
by admin in Work-related
by CAL, Curmudgeon at Large Back in the 19-hundreds, New York City used to be a dangerous place. ’Member? Crime was unchecked. Whole city blocks looked like Detroit and everyone had given up. Gangs roamed and citizens left the city. Madonna lived there. Enter Rudy Guilani. As mayor, he got busy following the Broken Windows [...]
