Dear job recruiters,
I will never, ever, ever work for AT&T. Not if it’s the last job on Earth, not if I get exclusive use of the corporate jet, not if they paid me a million bucks, not ever.
You may pass your “exciting job opportunity” to someone with lower standards than mine. Thank you, have a nice day.
Best Buy catches up with reality.
You know how much I dislike shopping at Best Buy? I was given a Best Buy gift card well over a year ago and still haven’t used it. How bad is a store when I can’t even be bothered to spend free money there?
I’d also say that in spite of the reporter’s speculation, people probably don’t use Best Buy as a showroom, mainly because they hate going into Best Buy as much as I do.
There’s ever-growing speculation that Best Buy now is serving too much as a showroom for its possibly toughest competitor yet, online retailer Amazon.com. The thought is that customers are perusing the aisles at Best Buy, trying out or considering games, cameras and phones, then buying them cheaper online, and sometimes with less sales tax, through Amazon or some other online merchant.
via Best Buy CEO Resigns Amid Competitive Pressures, Search for Direction – Yahoo! Finance.
I found out yesterday that the jury duty I almost had to perform was for the Kathy Taft murder case. While I was willing to serve, I am feeling very fortunate today not to have been tapped for this case. I work as a contractor and get paid by the hour and the contracting firm that employs me would’ve only paid for the first 40 hours of jury service. The Taft case will likely drag out for months, putting us in a significant financial bind. The $50 a day with which the court would’ve compensated me would not have come remotely close to bridging the gap. This all aside from the emotionally traumatic impact the case will have on all its jurors.
If these factors often weed out good juror candidates, what does that leave for our justice system? What can be done to allow people like me to serve without the risk of putting us in the poor house? Should trials be shortened solely to minimize the disruption on jurors, or would that be denying the defendant his or her due process rights?
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