Jeers Rating for HP8500

Purchased only six months ago, our customer reports the HP8500 “All-in-One” printer is inoperable.  Providing assistance to our customer in procuring a “return authorization” was met with a host of red tape.  After several days of “finger pointing” between distribution and manufacturer, we got a hold of a customer service contact line and provided the data for our customer to contact HP support.  Today, the customer sent me an email which read, “Finally – A$$ H@|& INDIA DUDE – is sending a new printer…”   (more…)

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Movie Star In Only 58 Days

Hard to believe that it has been only a mere 58 days between the “shooting” of Army Wives Season 4 – Trial & Error [Episode 10] and the respective network airing (6/20/2010).  Backgrounder accounts of the day are available in blogs of that day. (http://elifespaces.com/blog/2010/04/23/backgrounders/)   (more…)

Tags: Army Wives, Community events
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FOB [a/k/a Freight on Board]

Condition of the Occasional Shipped Product

FOB is the first of three items that potentially may derail our company from doing business with a manufacturer (or distributor).    The term “Freight on Board” (commonly referred to as ‘FOB’) is often used when shipping goods to indicate who pays loading and transportation costs and the point at which the responsibility of the goods transfers from shipper to buyer.  For our company, FOB Destination is the signature of a reputable company, a company who takes great care in the delivery of their product up until it gets into the customer’s hands.  Alternatively, FOB Shipping Point is a company with a completely different set of agendas.  Their mantra – as soon as it leaves their dock, it’s the customer’s problem.    (more…)

Tags: Dealer Negotiations, Great Conspiracy Theories, SmallBusiness Challenges
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Teenage Employment Matters

Teenage employment is important.  Developing confidence tops the list followed by a sense of responsibility, contribution, time management, and business networking skills all of which will become essential tools in the years ahead.  As an employer (founded in what might be considered “old school” thought), there are eight (8) valuable work habits that we would like for you to take back to school as you leave our workplaces.   (more…)

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Network News Alienates Audiences

CBS News, Ida Mae Astute/ABC, Virginia Sherwood/NBC

Losing more that 565 thousand viewers during 2009 (and soon the loss of our household in 2010), the “big three” network news groups appear to be out-of-touch with their audience.  If the news weren’t depressing enough, we become bombarded with drug commercials more depressing than the news itself, discussing each drugs respective side affects (including depression, suicide, heart attach, vomiting, diarrhea, etc.).  And if this weren’t bad enough, the sheer proportion of news versus commercials had grown out of whack.  So tonight (6/22/2010), while the children were away at camps and other summer activities, we sat when pen and paper and documented the news broadcast.  Here is what we found…  (more…)

Tags: Network News, Television
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Memorial Day

Guardians of Freedom

Please watch over the men and women who serve (and have served) our community and nation, and keep dear in our hearts and in our memories those who have departed this life.  Amen.

God Bless America!  Have a great Memorial Day. 

Please enjoy the attached performance of our National Anthem by the Cactus Cuties.

National Anthem

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Rumors, Accusations, and South Carolinians

Descriptors synonymous to one another, Wikipedia will soon formally associate rumors and false accusations with South Carolina.  Having battled against our own set of marketplace “dirty” rumors, we understand the challenges faced by Mrs. Haley as she defends against accusations of an extramarital affair.  It can only be described as boxing match in which one of the participants is a ghost.    (more…)

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Uncertainty Breeds Nasty

Small businesses have an inordinate potential to inhibit its employees, particularly in tough economic conditions.  With huge economic pressures to keep prices to down, employers cannot afford to increase employee wages without passing on these costs to customers.  As employees seek wage growth elsewhere by going into business for themselves, they too will soon face the same issues which prompt this eternal cycle of stifling the American worker.  Not us, not now, we are changing!   (more…)

Tags: CE Corporate Strategy, ESC Forward Looking
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Facebook Privacy Woes

Be careful what you write (no matter where you write it) – good advice.  “Dumb f#*&$ | they ‘trust me’ | I don’t know why” reports BusinessInsider are extracts from Facebook’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s IM exchange about privacy issues after launching the social networking site.  Suddenly Facebook is facing a storm of criticism and scrutiny about their cavalier attitude toward user privacy, so much so that search engine inquiries into ‘how to’ delete FB are on the rise.   (more…)

Tags: Facebook, Social Networking
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Forecasting Abrupt Changes

Noetic Science Silent Participants

eLectronics will change everything (if you haven’t figured that out already)!  In an online USA Today Article, Tech CEOs try to predict who’ll win tomorrow’s Tech Race, these enlightened few reflect on the companies of tomorrow.  It is only appropriate, that this “great conspirator” contribute to the good of the cause with two items. Be aware of…  (more…)

Tags: Great Conspiracy Theories, New Technologies, Technology Ahead
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