The Dalai Obama recently suggested that government must act as responsibly as families do when they set their budgets and wants legislation that would require lawmakers to offset any new tax cuts or spending increases with off-setting tax increases or spending cuts.
I’m sure he means well, but the way I see most families budget [...]
Studies show that there is a link between laughter and one’s well-being. This sort of study always makes the Worried Worker laugh anyway, because it’s pretty much a blazing flash of the obvious. Unless, of course, the laugher is an axe-murderer, or a lunatic playing an imaginary accordion on top of a telephone pole.
Scientists recently [...]
News surrounding American auto makers has been pretty bad for a long time, but the worst news hit the press yesterday when GM announced that it was going to let go 21,000 workers and “kill Pontiac.”
Now, it is clearly a bad thing for the workers losing their jobs, but how do you kill a chief [...]
If it’s true that the feds aren’t going to raid dispensaries like they did during the Bush era, this may signal a new cottage industry.
Given that most Americans have felt pretty low these last few months and that projections suggest we’ll feel even lower for a couple of years, the idea that we could [...]
From court reporters in “Disorder in the American Courts - Charles M. Sevilla”
ATTORNEY:
ALL your responses MUST be oral, OK? What school did you go
to?
WITNESS: Oral.
Our bizpain continued through the week with an eruption of conflicting feel good/feel bad stories by week’s end – hard to know what to do with this information, but it just doesn’t suggest that we’re on the mend yet. In fact, it appears that the people with the job security out there really don’t know [...]
10 sample Home-based companies
Alpine Access is a call center company that uses customer service representatives that work from home. Employees use their own telephones and computers. The company provides representatives for clients like Office Depot and J. Crew.
Convergys hires home-based call center agents who provide support in customer service, and also supplies sales agents or [...]
So many emails are shared, it’s hard to know what anyone is reading We got this several times and still read it.
It’s crazy, but it’s also funny in this not-so-funny time.
As sent to the Worried Worker:
This was an article from the St. Petersburg Times Newspaper on Sunday. The Business Section asked readers for ideas [...]
The First 100 Days
Basically, he spent too much. Had a couple trillion in his pocket and spent about 10 trillion. I don’t know what the bank stress tests are like, but this one has the Worried Worker uncomfortable. He’s off to a fast and furious change as opposed to evaluation and then change – we’re [...]
There will always be someone out there who’s going to ask you to do something you don’t have time to do. In an effort to please everyone, you may say yes. While this is honorable, it is also a recipe for increasing your stress and falling short of completing any obligation well.
Besides, you really [...]
