Good riddance!

Here’s former Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang’s memo explaining his departure to employees. Notice the highlighted clichés. Related posts:If clichés can kill, these probably willTo be honest with you

Is there such a thing as responsible retrenchment?

Gan Kim Yong, Singapore’s Acting Minister for Manpower, said the new guidelines on management of excess staff will “send a clear message to employers on the need to leverage on the tripartite framework” between the government, employers and workers’ unions, so that any retrenchment can be conducted in a “responsible manner”. A sprinkling of euphemisms… Read More »

Con job

Before I left Shenzhen for Singapore on vacation, I received this mailer from English First with the last page about some activities held at a local bookstore throughout November for people to experience the joy of learning English. Unfortunately, they couldn’t get it right and called it “English Conner”.

World War III?

The world got out of the massive bout of falling prices, or deflation, during the Great Depression in the 1930s partly through World War II. Would we have to start World War III to dig ourselves out of the current financial crisis? Technorati Tags: World War WWII WWIII Great Depression deflation financial crisis