Well, I figured the best way to handle the labor problems was to call them all into the office so that we could come to a meeting of the minds. That is the reason why I am posting this today because they have all just left the office, some for good, despite my best efforts…
Author: mtc9393
Labor Woes:
I explained how I gave the staff August for a vacation. The other day (Monday a week ago) I received an email from: Luluisiana, referring me to an article in a newspaper about a CEO at a tech type firm who has decided to pay all his employees at least $70,000 a year. The text…
Stradivarius; Rembrandt; The FBI; The Failure to Question
What do Stradivarius and Rembrandt have in common? Both had one of their precious art works stolen in the Boston/Cambridge area of Massachusetts, both were investigated by the FBI, both investigations were bungled, and the Boston media skips over any analysis or inquiry into the FBI’s bungling and merely repeats the latest FBI sound bite,…
The French, the Americans, August and I:
It may be fair to say that without the French help we would not have won the Revolutionary War. If that is that case we owe France a lot. N’est-ce pas ? What is true is that our relationship with the French has never run smoothly. Take for instance what happened during WWI. Our military…
Boston’s Major Marty Walsh Has A Big Week
It has been a big week for Major Martin Walsh soon to depart from my home town of Savin Hill. Trying to figure out exactly why he intends to move from a mainly blue color neighborhood filled with three-deckers that was a short trip down Dorchester Avenue to downtown to the more uppity neighborhood of…
Understanding the John Connolly case: Part II, the Death Sentence
Judges can often be highly willful and evil twisting laws and upending laws rather than following them in order to reach a result. It is difficult not to feel that way reading the decision upholding Connolly’s conviction. It is clear that the judges had no intent on interpreting the law and applying it fairly but held…