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Recent stories of hiring in the news, both good and bad.

Experts: Employers Cannot Force Workers To Get Vaccinated

One of the biggest stories of the past week has been the Disneyland measles outbreak, where at least 50 people in the United States and Mexico acquired measles, with the outbreak originating out of the California theme park. The story is controversial because measles is a preventable disease: in 2000, the disease was declared eliminated from the United States, thanks largely to the measles vaccine. However, there has since been a push by select parents to refuse to vaccinate their children, which has allowed the measles to start spreading again. In response to the outbreak, Disney offered up free vaccinations to any of its employees …Read more »

Tom Brady Is Kinda A Boring Dude (And What That Has To Do With Hiring)

Tom Brady is regarded as one of the most desirable men on the planet. He is also married to one of the most beautiful women in the world, who is also super rich. Thanks to Sunday’s shocking victory, he’s a four-time Super Bowl champion and is generally considered one of the greatest quarterbacks of all time. He has three healthy children, globs of money and is probably the most famous NFL player going. But want to know a secret about him? He’s actually sort of a lame dude. For example, do you know that Tom Brady goes to bed each night at 8:30? 8:30! He has all the money, all …Read more »

The Problem With McDonald’s “As Tasteless As A McRib” Ad

  Facing their largest drop in sales in at least 10 years, increased competition and protests across the country demanding higher pay for their workers, McDonald’s is in desperate need of some goodwill. Unfortunately, their attempt to build exactly that is going down as well as a Big Mac for a guy with chronic acid reflux. A new McDonald’s ad entitled signs (shown below) is basically a photo gallery of McDonald’s signs after tragedies and marking community events set to perhaps the most tear-inducing music possible. The description of the commercial on the McDonald’s YouTube channel is, “For years, McDonald’s …Read more »

The Life-And-Death Lesson The US Army Learned About Leadership

In early April of 2003, Lt. Col. Ernest “Rock” Marcone’s battalion of 1,000 men was about to be attacked by approximately 7,000 Iraqi soldiers – the largest counterattack in the Iraq War – while protecting a bridge on the Euphrates River considered to be “the most important piece of terrain in the theater.” The Iraqi assault was anything but clandestine – approximately 27 tanks, 75 armored personal carriers and, naturally, all those soldiers – marching right towards Marcone and his men. And yet, despite the military spending hundreds of billions of dollars on devices used to identify military troop movements …Read more »

Did Oregon Lose The National Title ‘Cause They’re Millennial “Babies”?

Monday night, Oregon lost college football’s national championship game to Ohio State, despite being heavy favorites and having perhaps the biggest quarterback advantage in the history of the title game. Why? Well, if you ask two of the nation’s leading sportscasters, it is because Oregon is a team of iPhone-wielding, skinny jeans-wearing coddled “millennials” – the term used in the most pejorative way possible – who go running to their parents every time something doesn’t go their way. The comments are a reaction to a Wall Street Journal article that ran last week about how Oregon coaches refuse to yell at their …Read more »

Why Free Community College Isn’t The Solution

President Barack Obama made big news Thursday when it was announced he is backing a plan to give free community college for any student who attends school at least part-time and has a GPA of at least 2.5. The plan should aid nine million students who are enrolled in community college and are paying an average of $3,800 a year to attend, according to government numbers. With the cost to attend a single year at a public, four-year college $18,943 on average and rising (with that number jumping to an astonishing $42,419 for private schools), the move will certainly be …Read more »

Why Cable And Satellite Are Doomed (And What You Can Learn From It)

Cable TV companies, I have bad news for you: your days are numbered. Comcast, Time Warner, Cox and the rest will have a long tail, no doubt, as many people will still watch TV “the old way.” But, in 20 years, it is very unlikely any of those companies will exist anymore, especially if they stay in their current form. I wouldn’t bet on satellite either. Yes, DISH made some news this week by announcing a $20 package that features ESPN and DirecTV has been steady if not spectacular, but those won’t be around forever, either, for the exact same …Read more »

A Fable: How Not To Deal With Competitors

There isn’t a business in the world today that doesn’t have competitors. Coke versus Pepsi. The Yankees versus the Red Sox. Justin Bieber versus the patience of the American public. We try to be friendly about them, try not to say anything bad them (in public, at least), but there’s something we all agree on: we secretly sort of hate them. And we want to beat them, really badly. The question is, how do you deal with competitors? Do you analyze their every move and figure out counters? Do you ignore them completely and just focus on improving your own …Read more »

Is Shake Shack A Good Investment?

It seems like a familiar trend: a “fast casual” restaurant advertising fresher, better food than traditional fast food places is going public, in the hopes of raising huge amounts of money so it can quickly expand, Chipotle-style. That’s the story of Shake Shack, a burger joint with 63 locations worldwide, which started as a hot dog stand in Madison Square Park in 2000. The company officiallydeclared its intention to go public on Monday hoping to raise $100 million, primarily to build new stores. Shake Shack, like Chipotle, plans on owning its own stores, instead of franchising them out. Its plan is to capitalize on …Read more »

The Costly Universality of Limbaugh’s “Bond” Thinking

Pierce Brosnan is a 6’2” tall, dark Irishman with dark brown hair. Daniel Craig is a 5’10” Englishman with blond hair and blue eyes. From purely a looks perspective, few of the actors that played Bond really look like what Bond was supposed to look like, with the closest probably Timothy Dalton. Here’s a picture of Dalton, below Ian Flemming’s original sketch of James Bond:          So the man who looks most like the original James Bond character is widely regarded as the worst James Bond ever (aside from George Lazenby, who did just one film). And …Read more »

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