business

In our school we pick options in year 8 and I was thinking of studying business for my GCSE's. I don't want to so much run my own business, but maybe work within an office space. Has anyone had any experiences in an office (or does/has someone got their own business?) Another thing, what level...

So at my workplace about a month ago they had me calculate an hourly read to see if we were either ahead, even, or behind in total sales. So one day my manager wanted me to calculate the hourly read since no one bothered to do it and we were about halfway through the new hour. She also asked me...

For the past year, I've been working very hard on starting up a new, very lucrative business in China. Now, I should clarify here that I have almost zero business training or education, everything I've learned has been learned hands on, through experience. Prior to this current effort, one...

Tonight's NBC Nightly News did a segment on the growing (according to them) trend of businesses bringing in ministers to deal with employees' spiritual needs. As expected from the spineless MSM, they didn't offer the slightest skepticism that this might be a bad idea. They mentioned that...

Here is the text of a letter I sent today to the Professional Investigations section of the Connecticut Department of Public Health: "I am a Connecticut state employee stationed at 55 Elm Street in Hartford. This afternoon as I went out to lunch I noted a most curious scene. Two women, who I...

Limited funding in education is an eternal problem in most countries. Many educational institutions address this through corporate cooperation, where large companies sponsor the resourcing of schools. I normally have small problem with this, as both parties benefit with minimal compromise to...

Well, the new hard drive arrived today and I just got the majority of my programs back to up and running status. I lost all of my iTunes, so I've got to repurchase those. :( I hate viruses... I really do.

Is anything wrong with: * Private companies making money off research/inventions made in public universities? * A professor who uses the resources in the public university to make a discovery or an invention, who then quits, manufactures the invention and becomes a billionaire? Should the...

Okay I don't get this at all. Has Bush said anything about nukin' Iran? Has he dropped by the UN for a resolution? And how would North Korea respond?

In English please.

"Ethical" bank asks anti-homosexual “Christian” group to take its business elsewhere I've just come across this news piece:http://www.guardian.co.uk/gayrights/story/0,12592,1513449,00.html What I've found very amusing about this report is that the Co-Op says it is because "...Christian...

Rupert Murdoch is attempting to revolutionize the world's video-rental market (both VHS and DVD). Since its inception in the late 1970s, video renting has been an inefficient business. Murdoch plans to digitally deliver movies and other programming from his satellites to home digital video...

Are there companies that supply, to their customers, observers/ witnesses who are paid to observe facts and either produce affidavits or actually testify in court? Such a company could provide observers for those who want to apply for the million dollar paranormal challenge. Also, such a...

Just wondering. I've done work like this at times but have a shot at a job that is strictly this, and in a lead position no less. Wondering what these jobs are typically like for ya....ie what does your job consist of. Is it a lot of liaison/coordination between diff. types of people in the...

Nice article on nanotechnology in this weeks Business Week: http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/05_07/b3920001_mz001.htm Mostly concerned with investment prospects for the field, but it does give a nice overview of the current state of the technology.

Speaking of dictatorships that boil their political opponents to death, (http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,963497,00.html) you'll be delighted to know that Tony Blair is helping to bring freedom and democracy to one tyranny ravaged country by allowing a British company help...

If Republicans are so good for business, howcome the states that vote solidly, straight-ticket Republican decade after decade are the ones in the economic dumper? This question came to me during a recent visit to the South. I was in a small town with only 3 open stores in an empty mall...

Probably some of you have heard of pharmacists who refuse to fill some perscriptions based on religious reasons. Usually contraceptive or morning-after pills. Well in Texas a woman who had been raped tried to get a perscription for the morning-after pill filled. Three pharmacists refused to...

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1516&ncid=1516&e=1&u=/afp/20030919/od_afp/china_animals_030919101647 news of the odd in an odd world...I guess this is progress.

I am trying to think: when it comes to conjurors are there any well known female conjurors? I can not think of any. All the females I have seen in the business are magician's aids or distractions. I knew one woman that had been performing off and on for 45 years as a clown that did a fair...

A restaurant here in Gorges is apparently friendly to the scientific outlook. Three cheers!

Being a truck driver, I try to stay on top of what's going on in the industry. One of the websites I check on regularly is http://www.realdrivers.com . A company I've been recruited by frequently is Covenant Transport, out of Tennessee. It bills itself as a "family friendly" firm, based on...