May 2018

Does anybody here speak jive?

A few weeks ago, Fox News reported that Alaska Airlines made company history with their first flight to be piloted by two black women. Naturally, people are falling all over themselves to praise this event – most treating it as the first time two black women have ever piloted a plane together, though a reading of the article makes it clear it was a first for Alaska Airlines. (No word on if that makes them the last airline to achieve this… (racists)) The thing is, it obviously never happened. We’ve been trained that “Faux News” only reports fake news,…

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The root of the Starbucks problem

I think the bigger question that no one is asking is: Why did Starbucks hire 175,000 racists in the first place? (Well, they’re not racists anymore… now that they’ve all been trained not to be.) Perhaps Starbucks was providing a community service. Perhaps they figured if they would hire as many racists as they could and then rehabilitate them in one half day session. We’ll know soon, because if they did, they’ll lay off the newly reformed racists and hire a new batch of 175,000 racists. With this plan, it won’t be long before Starbucks has solved the entire…

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Starbucks’ national overreaction day

By now, most everyone is aware of the two black men who were handcuffed and escorted out of a Philadelphia Starbucks because the white manager called the police after they wanted to stay, and use the restroom, without making a purchase. Naturally, this was blamed on racism. And so, today is Starbucks’ National Overreaction Day, where they shut down all the stores and make all of their employees pay for one manager’s mistake. I’ve read two management books in my life. One of them was The Dilbert Principle, by Scott Adams. One of the lessons I learned from the…

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Don’t consider the source

Consider the content of what is being said. Considering the source is one of the greatest wedges dividing our society. It allows us to avoid the merits of an idea by destroying the reputation of the source. Instead of stopping and considering the idea or information being shared, people are becoming way too quick to dismiss what they’re hearing because of who’s saying it. Think what you want of Donald Trump or Hillary Clinton (just to pick two examples), but there’s a reason they say the things they say and do the things they do. (And you’re not them,…

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