http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants Humorous, Satiric, and Exasperated Observations about Business Life Fri, 10 Nov 2006 15:16:06 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, my two blogs have been a noble experiment. As much as I'd love to believe that regular blogging will bring me millions, it just isn't true. Maybe some people can knock off a hundred blog entries a month, but I'm hard-pressed to do one or two. So I'm shutting ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/shutting-down-this-blog-for-now-in-favor-of-experiment-blog-who-has-the-time-17/ This isn't a business rant, except that businesses seem perfectly happy to sell their services in undermining the democratic process. This video of a congressional oversight witness testifying that he actually wrote vote machine tampering software for a congressman in 2000. Those of us who care about vote tampering have known for ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/vote-rigging-dont-do-it-even-if-they-pay-you-well-16/ I've been reading about rising gas prices, falling home values, and the rest of the sad story we're currently in. (Note: virtually all of it could have been avoided with wise forethought and appropriate action on our part. But it seems to be human nature that regardless of level of ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/some-sobering-questions-that-no-one-wants-to-face-15/ Shouldn't we hold business to the same standards as a 13-year old boy? Do we really worship business so much that we don't even expect it to have teenage standards of conduct, must less adult? Sometimes, business equals death. And we don't care. Want to commit murder? Incorporate. Then, it's easy. I ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/business-death-14/ The LA Times reports the Supreme Court will be hearing a case on whether the goverment should act to stop global warming. They'll be hearing the case in the fall. It will affect whether California's rules take effect in 2009. Is anyone other than me scared about this? Twiddling Our Beaurocratic Thumbs ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/beaurocracy-will-kill-us-yet-leadership-could-save-us-but-its-missing-big-time-13/ Hey, I'm going to be on the NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams on Tuesday night, June 20th. Dawn Fratangelo and I will be discussing how to deal with email overload. Make sure to tune in! http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/stever-on-nbc-nightly-news-tuesday-june-20th-12/ Today's Metro had a full-page display ad claiming that Father's Day is getting Screwed. It explains that even little Groundhog Day gets more attention. At the end of the two-page missive, the way out of this painful quandry is happily revealed-buy HBO DVDs. Whew! What a relief that the holiday ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/its-fathers-day-feel-guilty-feel-very-guilty-11/ Money! If you have it, you're a worthwhile human being. If you don't, well, then, you suck. So says the cultural undertone at Harvard Business School. At least when I attended HBS, there was a subtle attitude of money = worth. You've simply got to be an investment banker, consultant, or ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/your-worth-as-a-human-being-is-determined-by-how-much-money-you-have-10/ A drafting teacher gave his teenage class an assignment to write an essay on who they would like to murder and how they would do it. He's been allowed to keep his job, as he's apparently an upstanding guy and this was simply a lapse in judgment. Excuse me? A lapse ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/teachers-promoting-murder-excuse-me-9/ Happy Birthday to Me, Happy Birthday to Me, Happy Birthday Dear Stever... Happy Birthday to Me. "Happy Birthday, Stever!!" —Automated email sent by a website I'm registered with Unlike most of you, I've been using the Internet(1) since 1977. All my middle-school friends were people I met online. Until tenth grade. After moving to San ... http://blog.steverrobbins.com/bizrants/happy-birthday-to-my-inbox-6/