Category Archives: Work
Limburger on a Plane
“Drinks for everyone in the place are on me!” yelled my friend Jerry to the barkeep, his voice echoing across the empty saloon. The “My Three Sons” episode running on an old TV screwed up into the corner of the ceiling … Continue reading
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CubiCaller Confusion
This week I observed two mature, successful advertising professionals who long ago mastered such sophisticated hardware and and software as the Mac, PhotoShop, Microsoft Office, the iPad, the iPod, the iPhone, Quark and Adobe Indesign attempting to change the sound emitted … Continue reading
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Wall Street Traders Manipulating Market With Facial Expressions
New York City – The SEC has charged several Wall Street traders with manipulating financial markets using nothing but their face. Undercover agents capture these traders grinning up and grimacing down the Dow and Nasdaq for personal gain.
Filed under Headlines, The Street, Work
“The stockholder of yesterday is the stowaway of today.”
– Groucho Marx in Monkey Business Between meetings you work up the nerve to check your 401(K) online and discover that since your last visit a year’s worth of contributions have done gone phssssitt! in a protracted market decline the … Continue reading
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Good Solves
Most challenges facing this country are scarily complex. The economy. Terrorism. How Sarah Palin can fit a whole speech on the palm of one hand. But some are not. Gay marriage? Approved. Throw the rice. We just made some very … Continue reading
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The copier repairman farted.
The copier repairman farted today. I’d say it was a B-flat but piano lessons were years ago. As I walked down the office hall past the toasty little room that is the copier garage He leaned over the glass of … Continue reading
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“FYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEEE”
Do you find that while sitting in long meetings the only thing keeping you from reaching across the table and squeezing every head you see like it’s a ripe casaba melon is the thought that one can’t get pizza delivered … Continue reading
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Jacket by Armani. Face by Ferragamo.
Like it or not, fashion designers color your world. They inform your purchases of clothing, sunglasses, house paint, furniture, jewelry … even automobiles. Remember the Pierre Cardin Cadillac? You may not buy the label, but whoever made what you do … Continue reading
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Sweetening the Deal
by guest writer Bob Jacobs. I don’t know where he works. Like a lot of work places, ours is tightening the collective belt these days. The air conditioning feels like it’s set to be just a little warmer, the heating … Continue reading
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