The M in MBA stands for Mployment: A Long Foreword by Some Guy I Don’t Know

So, I just finished the Finance mid-terms and I’m back to trawling the web for job leads and future sources of procrastination. Few things better to do on a slow Sunday afternoon when you’ve already bought yourself a buffet ticket that starts at lunch and ends at 10PM.

I’ve thus far applied to 1 job lead and downloaded another 6 songs from this quirky little group that I just discovered: Garfunkel and Oates.

As financial ratios go, 1:6 isn’t bad.  Not bad at all.

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The STeM award – IBM

I don’t know why I found this article so funny.  Maybe it’s a reflection on the current employer/employee dynamic, or that I know tons of people that feel this way; heck, I’ve definitely felt this way along various points of my career!  This phenomenon has been parodied by the movie ‘Office Space‘, the television show ‘The Office‘, and on a daily basis through the Dilbert comic strip, the hero of the cubical dweller.  Maybe that’s why it’s so funny…it’s just so real.  Or, just that this article is so blatant!

So without further adieu, the STeM award:

This month, we award the STeMie to IBM Global Services in the category of Business Trends for ignoring the nature of the modern employee-employer relationship.  According to IBM’s own proudly displayed metrics, the number of employees at least minimally satisfied with their jobs has remained in only the mid to upper sixties for more than five years without change. Specifically, it shows no effective effort to increase employee satisfaction.

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Would you book this Continental Airlines flight?

Ah, technology.  You’ve made our lives so easy.  No longer do we need to read a map, we can use Google Maps or Mapquest at a moment’s notice to get us from Point A to Point B.  And for those of us who can’t even plan that far ahead, there’s always GPS.  Computers have made traveling so easy, sometimes we forget that these systems don’t always get things right.  And every once and while, you’ll see a spectacular routing failure, as I did today when booking my flight to Shanghai.

I live in Philladelphia, the home of US Airways.  Domestically, I always default to them because I’m a status member, so I get all the perks that goes along with that.  Not to mention, since Philly is one of their hubs, they are also one of the lowest cost airlines flying out of PHL.  But in my CCMBA travels, I’ve had to step outside US Airways (except for London), and I usually fly Star Alliance member Continental.  Today, I tried to book a flight from Philly to Shanghai, and here is one of the lower cost results:

Continental Philly to Shanghai

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