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Friday, July 06, 2018

Whatcha gonna do when they come for you? Bad statie, bad statie.

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From time to time, Pink Slip has opined about business malfeasance. I’ve always been particularly intrigued by stories about those with the...
Thursday, July 05, 2018

There’s more to July than the Fourth…

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Holiday-wise, yesterday was the big July kahuna. Which led me to wonder what we might be celebrating today. So I checked around to see what ...
Wednesday, July 04, 2018

For what it’s worth, here’s to a Glorious Fourth

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I’m not a big, go-all-out celebrator, but I’ve always enjoyed the Fourth of July. I sing “Grand Old Flag” in the shower. I watch the Boston ...
Tuesday, July 03, 2018

Unreal estate

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Allston-Brighton is a Boston neighborhood that’s a combo blue-collar, college student, and twenty-something enclave. It’s near Boston Colleg...
Monday, July 02, 2018

Separation Anxiety

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A month or so ago, I was temporarily separated from my phone for less than 24 hours. When we were reunited, I made a joke about a mother and...
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Friday, June 29, 2018

Okay, if this isn’t the weirdest thing I’ve read in a long while

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It’s a Friday. It’s summer. It’s a summer Friday. It’s the first Friday of summer. So Pink Slip was foraging around for a short and sweet l...
Thursday, June 28, 2018

How in the Tony Manero did I ever miss this?

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Just a few short days ago, I’d never even heard of Gianluca Mech. And then I came across an article on his Italiano Diet products, and scale...
Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Beware of bogus rentals on Craigslist

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Last Saturday, I had lunch in Boston with some friends from Houston who were passing through on their annual trek to Provincetown. It’s the ...
Tuesday, June 26, 2018

Obvious Info 101

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If only I’d known that it’s a dumb idea to eat spaghetti at a business dinner.  If only it had dawned on me that spaghetti is something that...
Monday, June 25, 2018

I vana talk about the Italiano diet

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Been wondering why we haven’t heard all that much from Ivana Trump? Me neither. Too busy obsessing about the rest of her family (kids and ...
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Friday, June 22, 2018

Get on the bus, Gus

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A few weeks back, there was a provocative headline in The Economist . It read “Can coach companies lure business people on board?” I’m goi...
Thursday, June 21, 2018

PABNABbed

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I spent all of my career in the technology sector, and a good slug of it in technology for financial services, so I am no stranger to rampa...
Wednesday, June 20, 2018

Jockeying for position on the front lawn

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When I was growing up, my family took a lot of “spins” – my father’s word for hopping into the car and driving around to look at things. We ...
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Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Even more of the nth degree. (This is it. Promise.)

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The last two editions of Pink Slip have been more or less Public Service Announcements on interesting and slightly out of whack degrees tha...
Monday, June 18, 2018

More of the nth degrees

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Last week, I came across a piece on Fastweb on “weird-but-cool” college majors. Sure, you may already decided that it’s worth going back to...
Friday, June 15, 2018

To the nth degree

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The other day, I saw an article on Bloomberg on what I took to be a pretty unusual business degree: an MBA in Wine. It’s offered by Sonoma S...