Posts tagged humor
BREAKING NEWS: Jay Leno to leave “The Tonight Show” so that he can spend more time being annoying and unfunny with his family…
BREAKING NEWS: American Airlines and US Airways are merging….because one huge crappy airline is so much better at sucking than two…
Claustrophobia - An anxiety disorder typically classified as the fear of a fat perverted old pedophile in a red suit…
TODAY’S CHRISTMAS TIP FOR JEWS: Get some Christmas lights and spell out “JESUS WAS JEWISH” on the front of your house…
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas — and by that I mean I just saw a drunk Santa vomiting into a Salvation Army red donation kettle….
“Is It Time For Dogs To Have A Social Network Of Their Own?” - AKA: The Reason Why Your Local News Channel Sucks…
“Costco’s average pay, for example, is $17 an hour, 42 percent higher than its fiercest rival, Sam’s Club. And Costco’s health plan makes those at many other retailers look Scroogish. One analyst, Bill Dreher of Deutsche Bank, complained last year that at Costco “it’s better to be an employee or a customer than a shareholder.” Mr. Sinegal begs to differ. He rejects Wall Street’s assumption that to succeed in discount retailing, companies must pay poorly and skimp on benefits, or must ratchet up prices to meet Wall Street’s profit demands. Good wages and benefits are why Costco has extremely low rates of turnover and theft by employees, he said. And Costco’s customers, who are more affluent than other warehouse store shoppers, stay loyal because they like that low prices do not come at the workers’ expense. “This is not altruistic,” he said. “This is good business.”
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How Costco Became the Anti-Wal-Mart - New York Times
