If he’s anything like me, he doesn’t like being hugged because the feelings of emotional and physical proximity are simply overwhelming for him and it becomes a sort of sensory overload when there’s firm contact with another human being.

Eh, not sure I can buy Vanderbilt either, they haven’t been shut out since 2017, and Rutgers have been shut out three times this year. Including one against Indiana. Plus Vanderbilt scored 38 against LSU. They gave up 66, but they scored 38.

Vandy is losing to UNLV right now. Let that marinate.

Jesus Christ, Indiana? At least the Michigan loss came against a football school.

It’s quite pungent.

Not if we rub heavily scented balms on our genitals to hide the scent of our periods.

And to watch Clarke, he spent a lot of time with those dogs .

I heard from all my coworkers about how impossible it was in their stores/territories which were well run before the recession. I got lucky that I wound up in places that were so poorly run before I arrived that I made my numbers. Thank god for bad predecessors!!!

It's always been the case, but internet has made the road to market saturation that much more smooth. 

Mergers and acquisitions, bruh. Make money get paid baull ouwt bruh

It hasn't been about making money as a company for a while now.  It's about buying a company, saddling it with debt, the proceeds of which are payable to the purchasers, and then not watching it burn while running down the next victim.

Perhaps when Gordon Gekko said “Greed is good” too many people took it as a pronouncement from on high, rather than just a line in 1987 movie?

From 2005 to 2012 I worked for two of the 100 largest companies in the country. During the recession, both demanded increased year over year sales from their foot soldiers despite the obvious lack of increased spending by consumers, many of whom were being crushed by falling home values in most of the country and/or…

Not even more money, just a higher percentage of profits.

They’ll fire their whole staff, turn into a managed brand that fades into irrelevance, because in ten years time the kids they’re trying to fob their shit off on won’t even know what SI *was*, and ride the revenues all the way to zero.

The argument I’ve heard is that it was flipped about 60 years or so ago, when the top echelons of society stopped being populated exclusively by wealthy scions who—though vile—had been raised with certain ideas about noblesse oblige, philanthropy, community responsibility, and propriety. They were bad men, but of an…

Avarice and gluttony are terrible bedfellows.

Well a major issue, in my opinion, is how a lot of places build their management teams now.

Milton Friedman is the switch. The idea corporations are only responsible for shareholders equity means increasing share price is the only thing that matters. 

I used to handle budgets for my department at my old gig, and for years as long as we continued to hit 20% profit or better, the powers that be left us alone. Then overnight, we were told 35% or better, which was/is completely impossible in that field. My department was laid off in batches over the course of three…

This was pretty much always the case. The problem is that the internet has lowered the barriers to entry and siphoned away the customer base.  There was no way you could have done to SI 30 years ago what is being done today.