economy

The worst experience in retail shopping is giving in to their “Can I help you?” with a “yes,” only to have the employee be of no help at all.

Here’s what happened: I walk into an office supply store (which I will not name) looking for two things, being a long network cable and a small table. I’m going to this store because we have an account there, and they sent us a discount card for the month of April. I answer “yes” to the first store employee, and the next thing I know she takes off without me, expecting me to follow (which I do). She walks down an isle and stops, looking around, lost.

What am I doing? Walking over to the network cables and picking up the longest one they have. She had no idea where they were. How is this helping me?Read more

I think we could all use some good news, so here’s my latest bit: the company I work for, AiM&M, hired another employee today as we expand again.

A lot of the people I’ve interviewed these past few months have talked about security. Security means different things to different people. There are two main ideas about security people talked about with me.Read more

There have been a lot of terms thrown around about the US economy in the past year which we’ve all heard numerous times. Foreclosure, and recession, and bailout, and bank failure, and stimulus package are among them. If you’ve been following the economic news, even lightly, I’m sure you have an opinion on what the government should do and who should be saved and who should be left to crumble and be picked at. Personally, I see an easy way of doing it: follow nature’s lead. Ask, how would nature sort this out?Read more

On Thursday a friend of mine made a comment about how she feels the economy is rough, people are losing jobs, and knowing this is going on sucks the life out of her. My reply? “I’m not worried.” She then said she’s not worried about her current position either, and we talked about what our plans were for a few more minutes.

Her words lingered, though: this economy is sucking the life out of her? I don’t feel that way at all. I thought about why she felt that way and started to realize why I do not.Read more

The days of Americans spending more than we make may have come and gone officially. Not only are Americans driving less and thinking of fuel economy more, which many feel is a permanent shift in people’s core beliefs, we are *gasp!* saving more, another shift which many believe will be permanent. I agree with that one. How much longer do you really think we could go on spending as much money as we made?Read more