Today, I spoke with Anne Fisher, who is a senior writer at Fortune and the face behind the “Ask Annie” column at Fortune.com. We discuss a lot of important workplace themes, such as office politics, how the workplace has changed in the past decade, the real way to get a job and what to do if you get laid off right now. She provides sound advice for anyone who is encountering issues at work or issues trying to get a job. Anne, how have you seen the workplace change in the past decade? Is it for better or worse? The...
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Filed under: Poultry, America, Thanksgiving, Local Eating, FallHaving grown up on sterile, deep frozen turkeys, I have always had the sneaking suspicion that my Thanksgiving was missing something. About a year ago, my wife and I moved into a Dominican neighborhood, an experience that has brought me into contact with an almost endless array of new, exciting foods and food services, notably the collection of "Vivero" joints in my area. Basically, these are sort of like a cross between a butcher and a pound. You go in, choose your bird or rabbit, tell them what you want done with it,...
Fortune Compass, LLC has rolled out its hand held electronic Feng Shui compass known by the same name, and has brought the ancient art of Chinese geomancy to the 21st century. I am extremely skeptical of this product, and most of the time Feng Shui is but common sense and good engineering principles when you look at it in a closer manner, after all, who would want to sit underneath a beam in real life? There is a sense of pressure bearing downwards always, and that will definitely affect the concentration of anyone who wants to work. Let’s not even...
Many have heard of Feng Shui, the art of aesthetics that is supposed to deliver more Qi to a person. That might be something that many in China go for, but many Americans look at the topic with more than speculation. Still, if you are into Feng Shui, here is your gadget. The Fortune Compass is designed to locate and engage the Law of Attraction according to the maker to allow a person to arrange things to get the most Qi. The thing claims to be able to locate the vibration frequencies in the environment. Using the compass people are...
Some strange science news for you now. You know how you can “buy” stars, even though such purchases aren’t recognized by any legitimate scientific organization? Well, Chelsea Football Club owner Roman Abromovich—he’s a tremendously wealthy Russian, for those of who don’t know who he is—just did one better. He bought [Spanish] his girlfriend 100 acres of land on the moon. Yes, the Russian billionaire “bought” the land, which is located between 20-24°S latitude and 30-34°W longitude up there, in order to make it up to his soon-to-be wife, Daria Zhukova. Apparently their crazy wedding had o be toned done...
I realize that people like buying silly technology type toys of which USB related things have to be the worst but $400 bucks for some sort of Feng Shui Compass? They can’t possibly be serious about this - or can they? From the company website - because I couldn’t even start to make this crap up The Fortune Compass is a hand held precision instrument that makes intricate and ancient Feng Shui calculations available to everyone. The Fortune Compass is the first electronic Feng Shui compass to combine aerospace technology with intricate and ancient mathematical calculations in order to...
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Eco Factor: Furniture made from old reclaimed wood. The reduction in the number of trees due to urbanization and the demand for wooden furniture has escalated the effects of global warming. While designers now tend to develop skyscrapers with living roofs and balconies, Meyer Wells has taken up the task to provide wooden furniture with a touch of green. The company is promoting products made from salvaged wood. The furniture collection merges organic materials with a geometric form yielding distinctive furniture which could just prove to be the right choice for a home with green interiors. The company is...
