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Friday Fun Link – Stupid Management Tricks at Circuit City (March 30, 2007)

There’s nothing fun about this week’s post but it’ll likely get your blood boiling. A recent MetaFilter post explained how Circuit City was losing too much money so their brilliant idea to improve the bottom line was to fire their top earning employees (3400 of them) and then offer to re-hire them at a lower […]

Posted 30 March 2007 § FridayFunLink § Main Page ‡ Comments (0) °

About Me (A Timeline of My Life)

Following up on my promise from awhile ago to add an “About Me” page to this blog, I decided to do something a bit different than the traditional, paint-by-numbers, paragraph-long business-style bio or the fun but frivolous, paragraph-long informal version that many web sites have (er, no offense meant if that's what your web site […]

Posted 05 March 2007 § Baby § Canada § Humour § Jobs § LibrarySchool § List § Main Page § Photo § Randomness § Saskatchewan § Shea § Travel ‡ Comments (7) ° Tagged: ,

Saskatchewan's New Family Day – I Called It! (Almost)

Now, far be it for me to take all the credit for Saskatchewan's first-ever Family Day.  But I would like to point out that I made a very accurate prediction, way back in July 2006 about a holiday that was announced in late October of that same year (er, if you ignore the part where […]

Posted 19 February 2007 § Canada § Humour § Main Page § Politics § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

2006 Saskatchewan Book Awards Winners Announced

This year was the first year since 1997 that I had to miss the Saskatchewan Book Awards which was a bit sad for me.  I attended my first Gala when I started working at the Saskatchewan Publishers Group that same year.  That led to me serving on the SBA board from 1998-2001.  After we moved […]

Posted 26 November 2006 § Main Page § PopCulture § Saskatchewan ‡ Comments (0) ° Tagged: