LinkedIn

Hey Gen-Y, guess what?  LinkedIn is not the new MySpace. You don’t increase your value to potential employers by randomly connecting with thousands of other smartphone wielding tard monkeys who have no relevance to your chosen profession. Seriously, that just makes you look awkward and...

Corporate Speak

If I hear one more junior executive talk to me about the big picture impact of reducing silos in an effort to enhance departmental synergy and create more bandwidth so we can better leverage our customer-focused client portfolio, I’m going to take the conversation off-line and empower myself...

Inefficient Coffee G...

      So let me get this straight. I can silence a bullet fired from a .357, but I can’t contain the ear-shattering emanations from a Starbucks coffee grinder. Seriously? Being tea-bagged by a sumo wrestler would be less distracting than such an auditory assault. Props and Kudos:  That...

Teachers Who Over-Ma...

It makes me crazy when the lounge lizards of PS 121 refer to themselves as “educators.” Confucius was an educator. Aristotle was an educator. I’ll even throw a bone to Friedrich Froebel. But if part of your day consists of gym, coloring, or naptime, you’re a babysitter with a health...

The Insurance-less

I know times are tough, but unless you live in a city the size of Singapore or have committed to traversing about the open plains via mass transit, give friendly folks at Geico a call. Last week while heading north on the Taconic Parkway to visit some redneck relatives a deer darted in front...