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Really Facebook?
Aside from the fact that apparently “2 of my buddies from scottsdale think I am stupid” they use the <blink> tag to shout the IQ rank of my friends to me..
Hey facebook app developers.. please go play in traffic.
Facebook is on the backside of awesome and is speeding 100mph towards suck
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So I have been giving a few guys @gangplank a hard time for coming into the office wheezing, hacking, coughing and otherwise spreading their sickness around.
Getting sick sucks.. but it happens. But it doesnt need to happen to everyone you work with.
A couple years ago one of my employees came into work looking like walking death, I had a meeting that morning so he was there a few hours before I came in. When I got there and saw him, I told him to go home. And not in a nice way. I did not want to get sick, and I did not want to lose more productivity by the rest of the team catching his funk. Of course though.. i did get his death, and so did 2 others.. so the company as a whole lost a few days of billings/output. That is real $$$ gone.
To his credit, He was commited to his job and felt compelled to come in. Thank you, but no thank you.
Think about all the common surfaces someone comes in contact with at business office:
So you are sharing all these surfaces with the sick guy that means wells, but is leaving little bacteria/virus cultures on all these common places throughout the office. I am no bio-scientist but I know these microbes can live on these surfaces for a few hours to a few days.
So be kind to your fellow workers, employers, etc. Stay home when you are ill. If you sickness takes the boss and 2/3 of your team out for 5 days.. you cost the company.. and the ECONOMY for heavens sake a multiple of your wages/productivity.
UPDATE:
sure as shit i got a cold.. muther f$ckers
So Last month CitiBank attempted to bump the APR on my creditcard from 5.89% to 14.99%.
I told them to jump in a lake, and they backed off. Except it basically terminates my account upon the expiration of the credit card.
Today Chase bank tells me they are bumping my APR 3%.. If I decline, my account is closed immediatly. They DO NOT say whether the balance is due today.. or at the expiration of my card.
They both cite “market conditions“. That is code for “We got our ass handed to us by making stupid investment decisions, so our boys in congress gave us a bunch of money so we can make the down payment on the new Leer Jet, and cast our CEO’s comode in gold… and now we are gonna stand on it while we piss on all of you”
So lets play this out. I have excellent credit, never late or over limit on these cards… and they can unilaterally make changes to the account terms, and then penalize me if I don’t agree. They are recipients of our tax dollars to cover their bad mortgage paper.. and they turn around and use that money to buy private jets, and push rate hikes back on their customers.
Whats wrong here? Where are the consumer protection laws? Why has congress let the banks write legislation for the last 40 years? Where is my power to modify the terms in my favor?
The Bums in congress better do an anal-cranium extraction real quick. The middle class is at the end of it’s rope.. and unlike the poor, they have the power to change it. The poor cant vote with their wallets, which seems to be the only thing these guys understand.
Looks to me like there is a huge gap waiting to be filled by a new, smaller, and bullshit-free bank that can take advantage of the exodus of customers from these tainted institutions.
What does community mean to you?
That word is thrown around a lot in our industry, building communities and all that. I think sometimes it is used as an empty buzzword, and other times as an accurate description of a gathering of like minded people.
The community, any community is made of disparate souls with their own self serving interests, but those interests more or less align themselves in some fashion that provides the glue to keep the community together and hopefully growing. As long as the community means something, and I dare say stands for something “bigger”, a higher purpose if you will, it will flourish. The nay-sayers, dividers, and ignorant take the stupid with them as they leave.
Within a broader community like business, there are subsets like the web crowd, the retailers, and the bean counters. At Social Media Club tonight, (after Sally‘s awesome preso), Francine Hardaway brought up an issue that faces all communities: how to outreach from the subset to influence, educate, and embrace the broader community that shares common edges with the subset. What is the answer here?
At Gangplank, the focus is community. Nurturing a new one into life. People there are looking to do something bigger, better, awesomer, with more collaboration, more outreach, more education, and less bullshit. The form of community outreach there involves an open door that invites everyone to participate. There are photographers, web marketers, muscians, and the occasional mortgage meltdown refugee sharing the free co-working space. How do we take it to the next level? How does a group of smart, driven people break down the walls that from our side seem paper thin, but from others; appears as thick and unyielding as a brick. Does one build a ladder over the wall, a bridge around it, or do you quietly infiltrate the headquarters of the old guard establishment and drop a few percussion grenades to snap them out of their idea and energy deprived coma?
At what level does community leadership become a hindrance? Is taking a hands off approach akin to letting the insane run the asylum? Or is it necessary for some form of leadership, to establish a clear mission and objective that everyone can rally behind. You need the detail minded and big thinkers, as well as the disruptors and technicians. What is that happy medium between input and mutiny?
One advocate shouting from the soapbox touches few, an army marching in the streets stops traffic. A coordinated campaign of education makes communities grow.
Welcome to the knowledge economy. Participate, collaborate, and grow.. or die tryin.
Ask your doctor about sheepivex..
Watching “CBS Sunday morning” this morning the commercials really got under my skin. Maybe I just woke up crabby, or maybe madison avenue is the devil.
Here is a quick run down of the commercials in rotation this morning….
Big Pharma: Ask your doctor if you have any of these common symptons that may be the sign of a serious illness: skin, hair, bones. Big Pharma advertising is the scourge of the earth IMHO. Yes there needs to be a profit motive for these companies to create the “blockbuster” and “lifesaving” medicine we need. I do not begrudge any corporation of making a profit, by definition that is what they are here to do. But the advertising of these drugs is mind numbing.
Srsly.. the Pharma advert story board is as follows; Ask vague health related question of the viewer that 99% of the populous could answer favorably, show happy people that have been cured by wonder drug, overlay voiceover of disclosures and hurry through the part about anal leakage. Close with prompt to demand this cure for the self diagnosed disease from your pesky prescription pad wielding Dr.
Do Dr’s even need a medical degree any more? I could diagnose myself (of every known ailment) off these information packed adverts, and if only there was 1800 number I could just order LATINNAMEIVEX to my door. Cut out the middle man and leave me and my potentially dangerous side effects to myself. Enlarged Prostate FTW!
Watch this:
Perhaps the only thing more insulting to my intelligence than pharma, is big corp lobbying.
Have you seen this commercial?
Inspirational music, happy kids, uplifting and hopeful message about a better tomorrow for everyone, blue sky and awesome green infographics, brought to you by: The American Big Oil Industry.
Or this one.
Sleek automotive interiors, flashy high tech graphics, verbal description of cutting edge techno-vative gas saving technology, Brought to you by Chevrolet. Srsly? Chevy has not been innovative for 40 years, this is the same car company that has spent billions on lobbying congress to NOT be innovative.
Does the average viewer really fall for this shit?
I guess they do. TV is the perfect medium for checking your brain at the door and just passively accept what you see and hear. No need to question the facts, question the motives, or agenda.
Take it all in my little sheepy’s and consume more.
