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Company Short Term Memory Loss?

admin | June 16, 2009

In a crisis, can you call on your workers to tighten their belts with you to save the company? Many businesses may feel that they can but you have to question how enthusiastically those same workers will be. Will they have forgotten previous company behaviour towards them? ( http://www.notthenews.net/index.php/2008/11/03/if_you_say_nice_things_will_they_promote ) BA seems [...]

Is ‘bankster’ to be the millionth English Word?

admin | June 10, 2009

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jun/10/english-million-word-milestone
‘Bankster’ – a cross between a banker and a gangster – has the chance of being the English’s millionth word. Honestly though, I thought the words where inter-changeable considering the many years that banks have been skinning the public and the bloody mess they’ve put us in with their financial carelessness 8-). [...]