Friday, October 21, 2011

Squeezing for productivity.

"Gaddafi's caught in the crossfire."

Yeah.

You know.

Oops.

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This call for small businesses NOT to hire in order to sabotage Obama's election chances?

I think I may have to figure out how to hire someone, instead.

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"Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned / Nor hell a fury like a CODE WRITER scorned."

Always fun to watch someone throw caution to the wind. In witty rage. It's sort of awe inspiring...like a psycho Dilbert.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out the local twitter. (Look for Paul.)

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Penney's left the Galleria building in the 70's not the 80's. I don't remember when the place was last renovated, but I suspect it was way sooner than 1989. Can't prove it.

"Old Downtown Building Getting Modern Makeover." Bulletin, 10/21/11.

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From what I've read, Steve Jobs refused to have his tumor removed for nine months because he wanted to fight it with "diet."

Being an innovative thinker can be deadly.

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Linda has fallen in love with the ads for The Three Musketeers. No matter how many bad reviews.

Based on the ads I expected Footloose and Real Steel to suck; and 3 Musketeers and The Thing to be cool.

The reviews say the opposite.

I still want to see Puss and Boots. Because the preview is great.

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Squeezing for productivity. There's an article on the Bleeding Cool site that talks about Marvel's penny pinching ways since Disney bought them.

I tell you, if I ran my business this way, I'd be in the gutter within 5 years. (My profits might be up for the first couple years...)

Since this is happening all over corporate America, I think we're headed for the gutter.

How much of whatever lackluster improvement in the economy has come from squeezing the employees and the inventory and the lack of infrastructure spending?

P.S. Walmart just cut health benefits. Any guesses as to whether they'll report a corporate profit increase?

6 comments:

H. Bruce Miller said...

"From what I've read, Steve Jobs refused to have his tumor removed for nine months because he wanted to fight it with "diet." Being an innovative thinker can be deadly."

Yeah -- especially when you (mistakenly) think that you know it all. Jobs's famous intellectual arrogance might have ended up killing him.

In general, it's amazing how many intelligent -- even brilliant -- people fall for bullshit New Agey woo-woo therapies. A healthy diet is good, and acupuncture relieves pain for some people in some circumstances, but they sure as fuck won't cure cancer.

Anonymous said...

Steve Jobs is and was an asshole.

The WoZ made apple, jobs just did the marketing christian cult shit that USA people love, in other words jobs served koolaide,

Jobs was big on the CALI shit of astral projection of the anus, but so are most people of the bayahrea,

Time to move along and forget about jobs, and NEVER own a fucking apple product aka spyware, just for spying on you are apple products,

Nobody will ever know the truth of anything coming from the jobs spin machine, which is MORE powerful than scientology,

Anonymous said...

Well its official the USA will now be giving 5 year visas to chinese that buy houses in Bend for over $500k,

I predicted this one a long time ok, that the chinese would come to Bend,

Where they will drink and gamble, and Bend's white children will prostitute themselves, and be sold just like the parents sell their children to chinese in south-east asia,

Bend's jumbo loan problem solved, now COVA only need to have street closure activitys that attract chinese tourists, ... don't think this is true? Just watch and wait.

Anonymous said...

What are you talking about on your third point? Just give us the guy's Twitter handle.

H. Bruce Miller said...

"Well its official the USA will now be giving 5 year visas to chinese that buy houses in Bend for over $500k"

Where do you get this shit, Buster?

But I hope this one is true. I'll gladly sell my house to a Chinese -- or to anybody.

Anonymous said...

HBM its all over the news, where in the hell do you read the news?

I guess you have to learn to use google and search for "500k chinese visa usa", ...

The chinese MUST purchase a home for more than $500k, and then they will get a coveted USA 5yr visa with re-entry, ...

The problem in general is that now that the USA is an ugly homocidal empire, who in the hell really wants to go there? Oh, I can honestly say its better than China, as 30 years ago I loved china, but now its terribly crowded, but moving from one shit hole to another, ... is not paradise, ...

But more power to USA & Bend if they can get stupid 'chinese investors' to Buy homes.

With regards to you hbm, you live in a $100k home at todays market, and thus no chinese would be interested, the visa arrangement makes it clear the home MUST cost more than $500k,