job creators

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Murdered Jobs on the Blue Ridge Parkway: The Shutdown in Microcosm

pisgah_innBruce O’Connell is an American job creator. All he does is grab his bootstraps, sit down at the table, and create jobs. That’s literally all he does! But thanks to the goose-stepping sturmtruppen of the National Park Service, Bruce O’Connell can’t create jobs no more.

See, Bruce O’Connell creates his jobs on federal land, by running a nearly century-old hotel on a lonely stretch of the Blue Ridge Parkway. And since the National Park Service has been deemed non-essential, O’Connell’s hotel, the Pisgah Inn (the Peak of the Parkway!), is being forced to close. This is a pain in Bruce O’Connell’s big, swingin’ American dick, because the Blue Ridge Parkway offers some of the best leaf-peeping you’ll find south of the Mason-Dixon line, and seeing as it’s October, Bruce O’Connell was hoping to get PAID, cousin. Continue reading

Toilet Break Surveillance and Other Workplace Nightmares

Norwegian insurance company DNB has found itself on the receiving end of some bad publicity after its draconian crackdown on toilet breaks made worldwide news. DNB installed a surveillance system to track call center employees. If an employee spent over 8 minutes in a day on personal breaks, including time spent in the toilets, a flashing light went off to alert management to the slack employee. Continue reading