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It’s a typical night at STABB, a new Detroit facility specializing in corporate team building.  Twenty-four employees of Midtown’s Matson Reducibles maneuver cautiously around...

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Before Buying “Blowin’ in the Wind,” Publisher Wants to Know How Many Roads Must a Man Walk Down, Etc.

Destiny45, the Detroit music publisher, is negotiating to purchase the rights to Bob Dylan’s “Blowin’ in the Wind.” Before the deal can be finalized, however, the company insists it be provided with the answers to all the questions asked in the composer's most famous song. The offer is reportedly so...

Pizza Corp Wins Right to Adopt

Now that the U.S. Supreme Court has granted First Amendment religious freedom to the Hobby Lobby Corporation - validating the principle that “corporations are people too'” - many court watchers expect other companies to start demanding rights of citizenship, including the right to adopt children. One case drawing a lot...

Artisan Ice Cube Start-Up Struggles To Keep Up with Demand

After just six weeks in business, Detroit Artisan Ice Cubes is already working at capacity “We're up to 13 cubes a week,” says founder Larry Petrangelo. “With just three makers, we can’t make more and guarentee quality.” The three – who also include former airline executive Madeline Fare and part-time...

Payables Clerk Now Receiving

Cecilia Minick loved working at Top Down Initiatives of Hazel Park, Michigan. But she never quite fit in. “I was an Accounts Receivable Clerk living in an Accounts Payable Clerk’s body,” says Minick. “I’d given up on ever being happy, because I couldn't be myself. “ Minick knew something was...

Systems Verifier Types Same Sentence 16 Million Times to Look Busy

William Harris, a systems verifier at Cleveland's Palmerton-Inge, was dismissed this week when it was discovered he had done no work since being hired 13 years ago, - despite being glued to his computer (lately his home laptop) an average of 12 hours a day. The situation came to light...

Business Cliche Offenders List Growing by 10% Annually

Carla Millington was ready to make the big move from Internal Tracking Clerk to Internal Tracking Coordinator. When she aced the third interview, she thought she was home free. But suddenly, everything stopped --- no calls, no emails. Sadly, Carla knew why. “Awhile ago I was in a meeting and things...

Colleagues Who’ve Always Seen Eye-to-Eye Now Also on Same Page

It was common knowledge at Trollem-Forth in Detroit that product conveyors Evelyn Franks and Carl Leeds have always seen eye-to-eye   Last week they issued a memo confirming that they are now also on the same page. This double synergy occurs only once in every 2,300,000 pairs of co-workers. “Over the...

With More Employees Thinking From Home, Think Tanks Shift Focus

Based on reports that 40 percent of think tank employees who think from home are thinking about things they're not being paid to think about, many outside clients have been terminating their thinking contracts.  To stay in business, some think tanks are changing their focus to include both thinking...

Customer-Obsessed Company Arrested for Looking in Window

Aldemon Logistics of San Francisco - whose mission statement describes it as "customer obsessed" was arrested on May 15 for looking in the window of a customer. According to the company's attorney, Martin Filmore:  “The company was merely attempting to ascertain the customer’s dessert-consumption habits, so it could more-fully provide...

What Should I Do if the Boss Thinks I’m Piedmont?

Q) The CEO has finally started talking to me! Last week, she nodded and said, ‘Hello Piedmont’. Then yesterday, she approached me in the hall and said, “I’ve been hearing great things about you, Piedmont.” It’s great to have the CEO appreciate you, and I feel like my hard...
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Business Briefs on Video – Jan 28

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