September 6, 2006

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3 Responses to “center of everything”

  1. John Dodds says:

    Pedants’ cor­ner — some euro­pean drin­kers will not like the ame­ri­can spelling.

  2. Hugh MacLeod says:

    And some Ame­ri­cans wouldn’t like it if we used Euro­pean spe­lling, John.
    Luc­kily, depen­ding on the mar­ket, this kind of stuff is easy enough to change. Unlike being a pedant ;-)

  3. llywrch says:

    This car­toon is like the ave­rage Dil­bert car­toon: as biza­rre as it might appear, there’s some truth in it.
    The mother of a friend of mine (actually, the daugh­ter is friend of a friend, but I heard this from the daugh­ter) works as the hos­tess for a high-end res­tau­rant in down­town Port­land. This woman makes a good salary, has bene­fits & she never has to work holi­days — a rarity for the res­tau­rant industry. (For the non-US folk, the job con­sists of taking reser­va­tions & sho­wing peo­ple to their tables.)
    Every time a new mana­ger tries to reduce costs by let­ting this woman go, he ends up hiring her back on terms more favo­ra­ble to her. Why? She’s suc­cess­fully sch­moo­zed with the local rich & power­ful, who eat there on a fre­quent basis. And when they find out that she’s been let go (again), they com­plain.
    Just another exam­ple of how social net­wor­king works in unpre­dic­ta­ble ways.
    Geoff