I lost my job a few years ago. While in my search, I got an offer for an equivalent position (Purchasing Manager), but with a 20% pay cut. The upside was, the role was being groomed as the VP of Purchasing’s replacement as he was retiring in 2 years. I was fortunate in that my wife just got a pay bump that let us keep…

Take your star.  That was a long way around for a great finish.

Isn’t part of the problem that both of these are supposed to be more of a “side-hustle” than “full time job”? I agree the app is taking way to much from what they are actually providing. At the same time, people are looking at this as a way to pay their bills the same as working in an brick & mortar industry. People…

What professional athlete could you outrun?

I like to think I pay a little more attention than the average voter, but it looks like not quite enough...

The easy way to counter that is start passing a shit-ton of progressive bills that would demonstrably help the average voter. Send them to the Senate and let Moscow Mitch sit on them. There’s your commercial.

I’m totally down with Salty on this one. I’ve adopted a three strikes rule with new restaurants and it’s served me well.  I’ve been to places where the first time was awful, second was OK, third was great.  That one made it into the rotation.  There was another instance where are three were bad.  We do not speak of…

I used to work for a loco manufacturer. The railroads haven’t been buying new locos for almost 4 years now. There was a flurry of buying before the new emissions standards, but it’s been nothing since then. The railroads are only doing limited rebuilds of existing to conserve capital. Warren Buffet saw this recession…

+1 toes-knees-hip

Every time someone talks about this, I’ve got to wonder what a couple hundred NRA fans would do when confronted with a battalion or so of real soldiers, complete with armor & air support. A real, live insurrection (that’s what it would be called) would pretty much put posse comitas on hold.  I’ve got to imagine the…

Trump backed himself into that corner the day he was elected. His brand has always been about winning biggly. He can’t not run again, no matter how bad it is. He can’t be impeached, as he will have lost the Senate. He can’t lose the election, because he doesn’t lose. Whether he truly understands this, or is lost in…

Wait, you expect solutions from HamNo? You must be new here.

I was in Beijing ~4 years ago and went to Tienanmen Square.  It’s very heavily guarded and there’s nothing there to indicate what happened.  As an American, it was very unsettling to see.

What about the most electrifying weapon of all...

HR is never there for the employees. If you don’t learn that in the first 6 months of employment, you should probably not be allowed to use scissors.  HR’s whole role is to ensure the human part of the equation costs the company as little as possible, including defense from lawsuits.  If they tell you anything else,…

A friend of mine was the VP of HR in a Fortune 500 company.

We’ve been buying lease returns for years, and typically hold on to them for 8-10 years. Yes, they don’t have all the latest features. Yes, they aren’t completely tricked out. Yes, I have more cash in hand.

Do you think the Secret Service or some other Deep State (TM) operatives are keeping a buffet of his favorite greasy food just off camera in hopes of exacerbating a stroke/ diabetic coma/ exploded colon just to get rid of him in a more embarrassing way than Trump is already looking at?

Dude: