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Chipotle Mexican Grill had their IPO last week and the WSJ ran a short piece on the titles that company leaders use.
The customer service manager goes by "Manager of Duct Tape and Plungers". The guy who runs creative-services is the head of "Special Weapons and Tactics". Finally, the company's spokeman goes by "Director of Hoopla, Hype, and Ballyhoo".
That probably gives some indication of the kind of place it is to work. :)
I have been fighting off some nasty flu all week.
I am much better now, and am only waiting for my voice to return.
This morning, my wife brought me in a snack to make sure I would make it to lunch.
She is the best.
I go on and on about how everyone should read The Wall Street Journal. I gave my dad a six month subscription for Christmas. He loves it.
Saturday's Weekend Journal was a gem. Here is what you missed:
If you are not subscribed, you are missing some of the best journalism anywhere.
My wife and I took on the project of upgrading the memory in her Mac Mini this week. She had been complaining that she was getting the pinwheel quite a bit and that she could only have one or two programs open at a time.
I think the main memory hog for her is iPhoto. She lives in that program and has over 2200 photo and almost 3GB of data. The rate of photo taking has only increased since September, so we needed to do something.
Her original machine came with 512MB and we decided to go to 1GB. We didn't have a lot of choice in the matter, since there is only one memory slot and the maximum you can put in is 1GB. A trip to our local CompUSA got us the 1GB upgrade for $89.99 after rebate. Not bad.
The only difficult part of the upgrade is getting the case apart. MacWorld has a great tutorial for doing the upgrade. You want to take their advice on finding the thinnest putty knives you can. I got thinnest I could at Home Depot and still had to use a razor blade scraper to get the putty knives started on each side. Once we got the case it took about 3 minutes to complete the upgrade.
She is already reporting a much better experience since the upgrade.
Our next task is getting a backup drive. I think we are going to go with the LaCie mini 250GB. It will sit nicely underneath her Mini and connect via Firewire. We can both backup our computers there, as well as archive some data we don't use much. I'll let you know how that goes.
Today will be considered a watershed event.
IBM announces they will cancel their pension program in 2008.
The company will increase its 401(k) plan and match employees' contributions dollar-for-dollar to up to 6 percent of their salary. Even if employees don't contribute to their plans, IBM will still place 1 percent to 4 percent of an employee's pay into a 401(k) account.
Many companies will follow this lead. Pensions have been become a drag on earnings and a nightmare to administrate. They also don't reflect the reality of today's workplace.
Healthcare is next. Employers will only offer high deductible policies and all employees will have health savings accounts to cover years with high expenses.
More and more people are going to be required to take personal responsibility for their future.
I should have gotten this up a little sooner, but if you read the Michael Lewis piece from New York Times Magazine about Texas Tech, you have a chance see them in action today.
Texas Tech (9-2) is playing Alabama (9-2) in the Cotton Bowl. Game starts at 11:00ET and will be televised on FOX.
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