Super Flashy Raft

Whenever I get together with my buddy, we talk a lot of shit.  Most of the time we just chalk it up to having a good time but once in a while, one of us will come up with an idea that is groin grabbingly amazing.  A few weeks ago my friend posited what I [...]

Now I’m sure that there are lots of consultants out there that bring value to customers that hire them on.  Many of these people are highly educated, intelligent and facilitate positive change in the company that have hired them.  However, in my working career I have never encountered one of these types of consultants before.  [...]

Working in an ethnic neighborhood, I’ve gotten used to spotting a lot of the more prominent accents in my endeavors.  As a former linguistics student in college, I think that I have a pretty good grasp of certain accents, especially those from countries inhabiting East Asia and the Arabian Gulf. 
Recently I was speaking with a [...]

Have you ever noticed that the people that talk a lot and monopolize every conversation are the same people that always complain that other people talk too much?  I’ve noticed this disturbing trend in every workplace that I’ve been a part of but especially in my present digs.  I’ve also noticed a pretty significant ethnic concentration towards [...]

Today we had an outdoor training/festival event for all of our employees.  This entailed lots of gnashing of teeth sitting through inspirational speeches and cornball recognitions.  However, not merely content to let this activity fall into simple mediocrity, the powers above decided to provide karaoke as entertainment to the 500+ employees that showed up.
Knowing a [...]