WHAT IS YOUR WORKPLACE LIKE? AND OTHER THINGS

(2006) BUSINESS WEEK 9/25

13/What is your work place like? Staffing.org asked 300 respondent and got the following:

57% are like THE OFFICE   24% DILBERT   MASH  14% AND LEAVE IT TO BEAVER 5%.

52/ Consumers keep buying Chinese goods. There have been marked upward turns in Furniture,

Appliances Shoes and Leather goods, Clothes, Toys TV's and Computer Electronics. The growth started just after NAFTA at 50 billion and today is 250 billion.

55/ The economy is not really generating all that many jobs. In fact, in 2001, the only growth came from healthcare.

40 Business insert/ The wisdom of crowds. For every 1% that creates content, 10% will interact with the interment, and 89% will view the content and interactions.

71-74/ Gambling is still generating money but it is beginning to diminish.

82/ The IRS has outsourced to bounty hunters to get you for not paying back taxes.

84/ Dunham

Where you buy things is now part of political analysis. Thus, if you purchase at certain stores, you can be cross listed with your party affiliation. Corporations sell your name to the two major political parties and then the store and cross list of party is used to identify party regulars and swing voters.

APPLEBEES means voters  from both parties. WALMART generally means Republicans. STARBUCKS means Democrats.

128/ Scott

Can't get into Harvard or Yale. Try the great schools in the UK. Hint: they are cheaper than the US ivies even including travel, taxes and related.

(2006)TIME 9/25

34/ Those that live the longest live in Iowa and Minnesota.

G23/ Grose

WHAT MAKES US BUY?

You are placed in a fMRI and you see a product. The magnetic scanner checks you out in 9 regions of the brain. There is a struggle between  old brain and new brain about a product .Results indicate what you like, but they do not indicate which advertisements that you like. You resist them every day of your life.