On the job: April 2008 Archives

The Democrats' plans to fix the economy

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Both of the Democratic presidential candidates have made improving the economy a central issue of their campaigns.

Here's links to both of their Web sites where you can read about their plans for fixing things so you can make an informed decision tomorrow.

What Hillary has to say.

Obama's plan for reform.

What's coming up: Voting, Earth Day, and Admin. Professionals Week

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Happy Monday!

Here's what's going on this week in business world.

It's administrative professionals week, so make sure you thank yours for the awesome jobs they do. To celebrate there's a lunch Wednesday at the Valencia Ballroom to honor them from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Call 849-5492 if you want to get tickets.

Tomorrow's Earth Day. Do you know anything business are doing to celebrate?

Tomorrow's also election day. Go vote.

Everything I know about work, I learned from Jim Halpert

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It's true Jim Halpert usually teaches me a thing or two about about work every week, but I think last night I learned more from Andy and Kevin.

I especially learned how to solve problems between companies that share the same building and parking lot. Turns out when you want other workers to stop taking your parking spots the best thing to do is discuss it with the other managers in the building. Don't make a big deal out of it. Just talk it out and it will get fixed.

As always, I learned from Michael Scott what not to do.

Harley job cuts and reactions

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Just wanted to follow up with you all and get you two quick links to the stories about the Harley-Davidson job cuts and employee reactions that ran in this morning's paper.

As always continue to check the Daily Record and Mind Your Own Business for more updates as we get them.

Harley to cut 730 employees

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According to Brent Burkey's article on the Daily Record Web site: Harley-Davidson is reducing its workforce by about 370 unionized employees and about 360 non-production employees, the company said this morning.

More information will be coming in throughout the day. Make sure to check the Daily Record and Mind Your Own Business for updates as they come in.

Retirement confidence tanking

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RetirementLane.jpgThe results of the 2008 Retirement Confidence Survey were released today and showed the people ages 25 and older who were surveyed had very little faith they would be financially secure in retirement.

In fact, they were so unsure, the study showed the biggest drop in confidence that it ever has in the 18 years it's been conducted.

Is it sad that I wasn't surprised to hear that?

With the way the economy is going, there are a lot of people who aren't even sure they'll be financially secure at the end of the month or year, much less when they reach the magical age of 65.

And the winner is

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For April Fool's Day, Mind Your Own Business held a little contest to see which of our readers had pulled the best prank or had been fooled by the best prankster. After carefully considering all of the entries, a winner was selected.

And the super cool York Daily Record umbrella goes to.......

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