Business

A Great New Vendor Story: Mountainland Business Systems & Ben Ashby

01.17.2012 Business
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I swear most days it feels as if the vendors who supply products and software for my day job are in a competition to provide us with the absolute worst service ever.  They seem to go out of their way to take our money quickly and provide the absolute least in return. I hate that [...]

Tagged as: Mountainland Business Solutions

Are American’s Work-Aholics?

07.30.2011 Business

When I lived in Denmark, the Danish work week was 37 hours a week or . It made me ponder if American’s were successful because of their education, intellect, natural resources or because their workers just put more time in. What do you think? Country Minimum paid vacation days Paid public holidays Total Brazil 30 [...]

Tagged as: Work

Some of My Favorite Reads from the Last Year or So.

12.20.2010 Business
Good Reads 2010

I am not much of a book reader.  Most of my reading is from the web. I read a lot from the Internet and I mean a lot.  This is a collection of some of my favorite articles/blogs I have read. How Will You Measure Your Life? By Clayton M. Christensen Mr. Christensen is a [...]

Tagged as: reading

Home Depot CEO: Obama Portrays Businesses As “Monsters & Villians”

09.22.2010 Business
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Today I saw this clip thats just as priceless. Bernard Marcus is the founder and former CEO of Home Depot. The other day I flipped on the TV and saw an interview with Donald Trump and his was bagging on the current President.  He said I know 10 business guys who could turn this country’s [...]

Tagged as: economy

Employees Selling Yourself

Selling Yourself

08.22.2010 Business

I thought I would write a few thoughts about employment. It’s easy to forget that as an employee your are a commodity easily bought sold or traded.  An employee can be upgraded downgraded or completely replaced.  Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we are replaceable.  I have been laid off five different times and here [...]

Tagged as: Job Search, Valuable Employees

Comcast Love/Hate

Comcast: Its a love/hate… mostly just hate.

07.07.2010 Customer Service

I have a love hate relationship with my internet service provider. I love one thing… the speed but hate almost everything else. Here are a list of things I would change if I were magically put in charge at Comcast. Really I need to reboot my modem weekly? Every week without fail I get to [...]

Tagged as: Bad Customer Service, Comcast

Delta Airlines Destroys Bike Used for Charity and Refuses to Pay For It

Delta Airlines Destroys A Bike Used for Charity and Fails to Refund Shipping Charges

06.09.2010 Anti-Hero

Delta Airlines recently Destroyed a Triathelete’s bike during transit. Triathelete James Lawrence is doing 20 triathons in 30 weeks to raise money for drought relief in Kenya. While traveling back from a triathlon in Hawaii his expensive custom bike was destroyed by Delta Airlines after paying $200 to check it. Delta is refusing to pay for the damage or even return the check baggage fee.

Tagged as: Charity, Delta Airlines, Give a Dam, Poor Customer Service

Is Apple the Bully?

Apple Becomes The Bully: Raids Journalist’s Home

04.29.2010 Business

What the hell has happened to Apple? Steve Jobs and Apple  are acting like the Gestapo. The background story in short… An Apple engineer looses the next-gen iPhone prototype at a bar.  Some one finds it and and attempts to return it to Apple. Apple doesn’t realize its missing or whatever.  The finder after realizing [...]

Tagged as: Apple, Business

The End of The Chunga Show

The Chunga Show at 101.9 THE END is Over!

04.21.2010 Music

After a 14 year run today was The End of The Chunga Show. Apparently its been reported at All Access that Citadel the owner of The End has adopted a dj-less format that will focus on 90′s music and Gen X’ers. ALL ACCESS is hearing from reliable sources that CITADEL Triple A KENZ(THE END)/SALT LAKE [...]

Tagged as: 101.9 The End, The Chunga Show, Utah Radio

15 Basic Microsoft Word Skills Every Employee Must Have

Microsoft Word Skills the Average Worker Should Have According to the IT Guy

02.24.2010 Business

A few weeks back I posted the Top 10 Computer Skills the Average Worker Should Have According to the IT Guy.  Today I would like to add some skills that people need to know using Microsoft Word. People often are unsure what Word skills they will need for a general office type of job. Applicants [...]

Tagged as: Computer Skills, Computers, Office 2007 Skills, Office 2010, Office 2010 Skills, Word 2007 Skills, Workers

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