This afternoon I’m driving home to Salisbury, which for a Manhattanite like me means renting a car and realizing, suddenly, that gas is expensive. $3.50 a gallon? Dang.
When I go for my $40 fill up, though, I will try not to guffaw too loudly in the direction of the person running the gas station, because chance are, he’s suffering …
The outcome of the Ledbetter Fair Pay Act (see post below) yesterday: killed. By filibuster. From AHN:
Republicans in the Senate successfully prevented Democratic colleagues on Wednesday from considering a bill that would have overturned a Supreme Court decision giving employees only 180 days to make pay discrimination complaints. The
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Earlier this month, Justin told you about Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz popping by our offices and saying, among other things, that the coffee chain was really starting to feel the pinch from sluggish consumer spending.
Let’s put that one in the “you heard it here first” column. Today in reporting preliminary Q2 results, Starbucks played …
A few weeks ago, I got an invitation from the president of my company to a breakfast meeting. Ann Moore asked me, as well as a handful of top women editors at our other magazines, to meet a woman I’d never heard of: Lilly Ledbetter. Oh, and Anita Hill.
Hill came to lend her support to Ledbetter’s cause. Since I’d received the invite, …
On Monday I got an email from the University of Iowa telling me that Barack Obama had a 75% chance of winning the Democratic nomination; Hillary Clinton was at 21%. I’m guessing I’m not the only business reporter out there who is most comfortable processing the horse race elements of national politics through
Lots of excitement at Citigroup’s annual meeting today, as recounted in Crain’s New York Business. Shouting shareholders, wailing employees, an angry, overflowing crowd. New chief exec Vikram Pandit tried to calm everyone down: We’re now closer to the end of the write-down cycle than we are to the beginning, he said. With more than $40 …
1. Office chairs laughably ill-designed to accommodate enormous rear.
2. Vending machines promote increased enormity of rear.
3. Bathroom is far, far away. Even when it’s not.
4. Maternity office wear designed by mean, skinny people.
5. Glass office doors prevent 3 p.m. naps.
6. Three p.m. meetings prevent 3 p.m. naps.
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Hello! And Hej! to you, Henri. It’s great to be back.
So, last week Justin mentioned that Singapore’s Straits Times newspaper is looking to outsource some copy editing to the U.S. Foreigners? Hiring Americans? As my colleague Coco Masters recently reported, they’re after our pilots, too.
In a slightly different sort of turn-about, I …
I had lunch the other day with a colleague who told me something totally alarming: that after age 40, the chances of a woman conceiving using natural methods is 5%. Five percent! Her point is that women suffer a great disservice when we’re told, over and over, that motherhood can wait. Go ahead, grind out the hours at the office; gun for …
The Curious Capitalist family is about to head to Costa Rica for a week. In the meantime, veteran Curious Capitalist stand-in Barbara Kiviat and newbie Bill Saporito (a.k.a. my boss) will be filling in. Be nice to them. But not too nice.
I’m in D.C. today, and this morning I moderated a panel at the World Health Care Congress featuring Clayton Christensen. Christensen is the inordinately tall Harvard Business School professor who attained official business-guru status with the publication of The Innovator’s Dilemma in 1997 and has shown no signs of relinquishing it …
Just got this release from the ACLU:
The American Civil Liberties Union sent a letter to the Peace Corps today demanding that it change its policy of barring people with HIV from serving as volunteers. The ACLU sent the letter on behalf of a Denver volunteer who was sent home from his post in the Ukraine and terminated after he tested
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