Who doesn't??

I just had to regulate on a burglar.

HAMburglar? :rolleyes:

The speaker at Rotary lunch was a former Senior VP at Chase who started a management consulting business down here in the woods. Almost every example she talked about managed to run counter to what the US airline industry is doing.

Care to share an example?

God I can be so stupid sometimes. I’ve been suffering from writers block all week as well as being easily distracted. Then I remember a long, long, long time ago I’d do this type of stuff with music on. So on goes iTunes and 20 minutes later the stuff I have to write is done.

So I can add that to the list of things I want in a job, music, being able to wake up at 8AM (instead of 5:30AM), interacting with non :rolleyes: people, feeling useful, etc. A bit lofty isn’t it?

Be profitable.

80% of my job is writing. And my iPod or radio is always on. Always.

Ah, that explains why when I click on threads to see unread posts, it takes me back to early January. Guess I'll have to recount all those upgrades and put them back in. :rolleyes:

Good? Don't know about all that. More like being assigned to multiple projects from Hell at work all at once. But yes, that does involve tours of Bizarro Redneckistan, as well as tours of Bizarro Cajunstan.

We were in NY this past weekend. My partner was there for the show, but he's always there before it opens to the public for the Media Days. Unfortunately our perfect weekend in NYC turned into a dud — he woke up very ill Friday morning with what was probably food poisoning and spent the entire weekend in our room at the W. At his insistence I did go to the two plays we had tickets to and got out here and there for a couple of hours at a time so that he could sleep, but it wasn't the best of weekends for either of us. By the time he was finally feeling halfway decent and up to doing anything, it was Sunday afternoon and time to go home.

It sounds like you had the same bug the AMS crew had.

She was running very counter to the idea that prices should be cut in a recession. Her talk referenced places like WN and Wal-Mart and how their processes and their culture are designed for efficiency for cost reduction that is passed to the consumer, and how legendarily difficult it is to shift to that mode of thinking. Ted was referenced in comparison to Southwest, along with about 19 places down the road at which GM made the wrong turn.

It shows. I thought I wrote well, and then I started reading your posts.

Were you here for the debut of Plus1? That's some big Box news that you may have missed out on.

There is definitely a 24 stomach bug/flu going around.

Mrs Mudder and I came down with it at the same time. At first we thought it was food poisoning since we were on oppostie sides of the country and hadn't seen each other in about 36 hours, but we eventually figured out it was a bug.

Signature fixed. I'm happy now. Was worried that J.Edward had hacked into my account and reset my counts out of jealousy. :p

Wal-Mart and Southwest thrive on the idea of perceived affordability and cheapness. That's why Wal-Mart is doing quite well right now. However, the reality is that they are often not the cheapest. Case in point? Last night I priced BWI-LAX and IAD-LAX for my partner's sister. On BWI-LAX the cheapest carriers were NW and DL. WN was pricing higher than any other legacy, and in some cases by more than $125 roundtrip. Results were similar out of IAD. I'm not saying Wal-Mart and WN aren't well run companies, because in many ways, they are. But they often don't "pass along savings to the consumer" and what savings they do pass along are often a small percentage of the overall savings which hit the corporate bottom line. And when those savings are generated through reduced service and quality, there are a lot of consumers who are more interested in true value than just the cheapest price regardless of quality. And those consumers are a market segment that companies like Wal-Mart and WN don't do very well with (although WN has improved in that area).

Yep, I was here for that.