Category: business
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Why I scrolled
Just a few quick scrolls through YouTube shorts is never just a few for me. It’s the place I turn to when I need to turn away from the mountain of overwhelming tasks. I seem to turn to it a lot. Instead of really enjoying the random video that I won’t even remember in the…
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Sorry, I was late
It was a picture of an adorable cub, hanging on to the screen door. In the background were woods. What you likely couldn’t see was the mama bear lurking, ready to attack anyone who came close to her cubs. The picture could have been a beautiful shot of what it’s like to live in a…
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Another day another controversy: Patrick Ta and Painted by Esther
On the interwebs, the social media channels, and the chat groups is a growing conversation. It circles around Painted By Esther and Patrick Ta. The first is a British makeup artist who has gone viral for her blush forward looks on her famous clients. The second is a makeup artist with his own brand of…
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Everlane’s sale to Shein is a sign of the end
Everlane, a company, known for its sustainability claims, just sold to Shein, known for all things the opposite of sustainability. Others will have covered the ends and outs of this buyout in more depth, and this is the question: Is this the beginning of the end? Are the end times upon us? Or at the…
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Well, Delta, seems I was right about that
On Monday, I suggested that if I were an airline, I would send a special thank you to fliers who have endured the extreme TSA wait times with the partial shutdown of the U.S. federal government. Well, maybe I’m a psychic, or maybe it’s just good business. On Wednesday, I received an email from Delta…
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Customers, am I right?
“This is poor customer service. Where is your manager?” The guest was unhappy with the employee’s polite attempts to explain store policy. Because she didn’t meet the customer’s exact demands, it was the wrong thing to do. Even though she was doing her job as trained, that customer could then take to social to give…
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This one reason drives too many layoffs
We often talk about layoffs a cost cutting measure, but it could be down to one other issue. We don’t know how to give feedback. Sometimes, those rounds of layoffs are thinly disguised ways of getting rid of employees who are not up to standard. Except you may have never told them the standard in…
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