Two brothers joining forces to practice the three R's of blogging: Ranting, Raving, and Reviewing about anything that catches their eye or gets their goat.
In a January issue of Fortune magazine, Google was named the number one place to work in America. Employee perks such as free lunch, free massages, free on site health care sent Google to the top of the list; however, are such perks honestly meant to keep employees “happy” or just meant to keep them “in the building?”
By the headline of this story you might draw the conclusion that this is nothing more than another story about Bank of America issuing credit cards to illegal aliens. While I do hope that the US Attorney General finds BOA in violation of banking laws and slams the door on this practice, I have a more personal gripe with the nation’s second largest bank. About once a month my wife and I take our 5-year old daughter to the mall where she has a routine of riding the large carousel and the 50-cent rides typical of the ones outside your local grocery store. Grasping a small Ziploc bag with roughly $6 in dimes and nickels, we stop at the neighborhood BOA so she can turn them in for quarters. Now, my wife and I have both savings and checking accounts with BOA and our daughter even has her own savings account whose balance has often times exceeded my own thanks to very generous relatives at Christmas and Birthdays.
Nearly every reality television show is some sort of game, and to succeed at any game a player must develop and implement some type of strategy. Up to recently the only strategy that existed for contestants on American Idol was to “bring it every week” and select songs that best showcased their talent; however, now that Vote for the Worst (VFTW) and Howard Stern have joined forces and demonstrated their power to control the vote, two new strategic moves for idol contestants have emerged: be an awful singer, or suck up to VFTW and Stern.
