Happy Hump Day York. 
I feel remiss because I wasn't here to give you your weekly outlook on Monday morning, but that's because I was in Baltimore at a conference for the Society of American Business Editors and Writers learning all about how to write better business stories.
Hello, hello happy people. It's almost 5 p.m. on Friday and that minutes we're minutes away from celebrating the weekend.
But before you head out, here's your round-up of what happened this week in the business world. It deals a lot with gas and oil.
Oil prices rose.
People are cashing in their grocery points to save money.
The Pres. says the rebates checks will boost economy (I'll believe it when I see it.)
They ran some drills to make sure people knew what to do in case of an emergency at Peach Bottom. For results see tomorrow's paper. (I hope they did well, I can imagine a nuclear meltdown would not be fun.)
And in kind of random news, the owners of Arby's bought Wendy's. I'm not sure what that means for the fast food industry, I just thought it was interesting.
One of the good things about York is that it's a relatively short drive from a lot of places: Baltimore, Harrisburg, D.C., Philly, etc. And probably more than most people realize, the same is true for good trout fishing.
What did I learn this week from my friends at Dunder Mifflin?
I'll admit, not as much as I usually learn. But I did pick up a few things that I'll pass on to you all:
Here's how not to launch a new business venture:
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.
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.
Well people we've just about made it through another work week, which means it's time to update you on the great happenings in the business world this week.
Stating the obvious, Tuesday was tax day.
Gas is the root of all evil.
Harley employees weren't thrilled about almost 300 jobs being cut in Springettsbury Township.
Gold dropped because the dollar gained.
Being corrupt is costly.
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.
About 80 percent of the 370 unionized jobs Harley-Davidson plans to cut will be at the Springettsbury Township plant, according to reports from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Check the York Daily Record and Mind Your Own Business for more updates as they come in.
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.
The 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.
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.......
