Easy enough to slam business owners or paint them as heartless capitalists working to milk their companies by dis-investing in their equipment or people. But so far this year, I’ve heard from two business owners who, out of loyalty to their employees, delayed layoffs beyond the point of fiscal wisdom. These two owners ran smallish manufacturing businesses, and over time, developed deep loyalties to their employees. They knew their families, attended weddings, threw holiday parties. And when times got tough, all they could see was the suffering they’d cause through layoffs. So they did all they could to avoid the layoffs, often cutting their own salaries, or cutting back on other aspects of the business. In one case, the company is still in business, but barely. L
MOUNT HOLLY, N.C. (AP) — visit President Barack Obama will outline incentives to promote development of more fuel-efficient cars and to make it easier for people to buy and operate next-generation vehicles during an election-year visit to a North Carolina truck plant.
The morning after Super Tuesday voting, Obama picked up his schedule of weekly visits to politically important states with his trip to a Daimler truck plant in Mount Holly, N.C. With the price of gasoline at its highest levels for this time of year, Obama once again will promote policies he says will result in less foreign oil dependency over the long term.
He does so as the Republican field seeking to defeat him in November remains unsettled. M
The FTC – the government agency working for consumers to prevent fraudulent, deceptive, and unfair business practices – enters complaints into the Consumer Sentinel Network , a secure online database of millions of consumer complaints available to more than 2,000 civil and criminal law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad. In addition to storing complaints received by the FTC, the CSN also includes complaints filed with federal, state, and non-governmental organizations.
The CSN report breaks out complaint data on a state-by-state basis and also contains data about the 50 metropolitan areas reporting the highest per capita incidence of fraud and other complaints. In
We’ve all had one: that ineffectual boss that rarely has a clue. But what if your superior crosses the line from annoying to toxic, making your work life downright miserable? Think you can’t get him or her fired? Think again. However, there are some dangers have to approach it in an unemotional and methodical way. With that in mind, here are five steps to take if you want to try to get your boss fired. 
Keep a Record
Chances are the abuse didn’t just happen overnight, nor did your angst against your superior materialize out of thin air. Career e
A happy career and personal life from smiling?
Smiling engages at least three muscle groups, increasing bloodflow, and boosts circulation of immune cells.
What if youre not the smiley type? Fake it! Believe it or not, it fools your body into thinking youre happy about somethinglifting mood, and immune system function.
How easy is this? Its free, will boost your career, personal relationships, and you can do it any time! And if you walk around campus smiling, people will wonder whats going onand probably smile back.