Verizon’s Fee Flip Flop Signals Deep Trouble

Verizon’s “con­ve­nience fee” is more than just a stu­pid mis­take, it’s a symp­tom of how unsus­tain­able busi­ness has become. A quick sum­mary: Thurs­day Ver­zon put a $2 fee on cus­tomers who pay their bills with a credit card one-bill-at-a-time. While this move tar­geted very spe­cific cus­tomer behav­ior, there was a gen­eral out­cry on social media. […]

It’s Very Important for Me to Have Fun…

I take respon­si­bil­ity seri­ously, and work as hard as the next guy. I think what some­times con­fuses peo­ple is that I like to have fun while I’m doing what I’m doing. I go out of my way to make myself laugh. Like, when sites let me put in a “free form title” (instead of a […]

You Can’t Make This Stuff Up

I’d laugh at HP if I thought they were the only com­pany so dys­func­tional around the tablet movement.

Another Riddle

Can’t get off rid­dles this week, I guess. What do Sears, The Gap, and Friendly’s all have in com­mon? They’re suck­ing wind right now. All clos­ing retail out­lets. In fact, there were two arti­cles on the front page of the NY Times Busi­ness Sec­tion today about this. It also listed a bunch of restau­rant chains, including […]

Company Sues Former Employee over Twitter Account

This is a very inter­est­ing sit­u­a­tion. I have opinions.