ethics
General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Appreciating Other People’s Time And Money

I was watching that Kitchen nightmare show yesterday and there was an interesting theme that talked about how the general manager of the restaurant was ineffective in his role. The interesting comment was how he was being labeled as a person who was scamming and taking advantage of the owner of the restaurant by pretending

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Business

Tricky Sales Techniques

An interesting thing happened today at the office. There was a person that knocked on the door and we had no idea who it could be. It turned out to be an artist who did paintings for a living and attempted to sell his work to us for a over $100. Although I didn’t talk

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General Thoughts and Fun Topics

Limits In Aiding People Who Are Reckless With Money

One of my family members today was telling me how she felt bad that a person she knew was constantly struggling with money. Whenever possible, she offers to pay for one of the person’s small expenses. The conflict though is that she believes she should stop doing so since the person is well within a

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Business

Determining The Value of A Service

Today I was told about an interesting story in regards to a very large real estate company here that needed a new online presence and so they hired a company to do so. The bill was rather hefty as it was well over $40,000. To make matters worse, the end product was not fully functional

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Business

Business and Friendship

Recently, I just had a conversation with a friend about times where it seemed like working with people that you have known and trust turn out to be a disaster. When I reflect back to the times where this has personally happened to me, the main theme in every case was that I was naive

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