My Musings

  • BS Jobs

    This article about BS job is kind of funny and I suspect the guy leading the charge may not really understand what those so-called BS jobs entail or why they exist. What are BS jobs? Here’s some example he lists: clerical workers, consultants, telemarketers, corporate lawyers, service personnel, brand managers, middle management, etc. Telemarketers, if…

  • Blankenship Surge

    When I heard that Don Blankenship was surging in the polls, I thought, “What’s wrong with you people?” First Alabama with Judge Roy Moore and now Don Blankenship, the convicted CEO. Mr. Blankenship was CEO of coal company Massey Energy Company when there was a mine explosion killing 29 miners. I believe he was indicted…

  • Avoid Private Equity Debt

    “To be in retail now, you need to be unique; you need to offer something you can’t get online. And typically private equity firms tend to cut back,” Josh Kosman, author of The Buyout of America: How Private Equity Will Cause the Next Great Credit Crisis, told BuzzFeed News. “They’re not improving their stores and…

  • Using Google for Answers

    Earlier in the week, I was working with somebody on getting Dropbox loaded onto her machine. For some reason, Dropbox would not install after you hit the “Install” link. Instead, we kept receiving a blank screen. So I went to Google to see if it could direct me to the answer to our problem and…

  • The Date Logic is Killing Me

    Lately I’ve been working on this reconciliation problem where I want the spreadsheet to highlight for me all potential problems with the data. A lot of the reconciliation deals with employee ids, social security numbers, dates and deductions. I want the spreadsheet to do the work for me since I actually do not have the…