Q: I just finished my weekly shopping at Ed's Club, the bulk merchandise warehouse. As usual, the people who work there treated me like dirt – one guy stocking shelves just rolled his eyes when I asked where the peanut butter was, and the cashier snapped at me...

Q) I just got a new job as head coach of the Detroit Lions. Any suggestions on how to get off on the right foot? A) All you need to do is come up with a foolproof plan to fulfill the hopes and dreams of millions. Here are a few...

When Molly Tallman asked the barista at Sacramento’s Drippish Coffee how many types of mocha lattes were available, she did not expect the woman to pull out a taser and stifle her question with 38,000 volts. Yet that’s exactly what happened to her last Thursday – and to hundreds of...

Some of the brightest minds in business have seen their careers nosedive because they use too many emoticons in their emails. The situation has grown worse the past few years with the introduction of over 20,000 new emoticons to add to the standard smiley face – ranging from sword-fighting...

Q) As I understand the concept of “Fan Clubs,” people start them for those they admire a lot –  singers like Patti Page, or comedians like Shecky Greene. Bearing this concept in mind, and since I greatly admire my boss, who rose from the ranks of Accounting Coordinator Level...

Over the past five years, 22.4 million Americans have lost their jobs due to inadvertently writing something someone else found inappropriate.  To help prevent this, many companies have installed JobBSafe on the computers, phones and tablets of their employees. The security program automatically redacts from emails and other documents any...

Citing losses of over $220 million during the past four months, CityThird of Newark, New Jersey, has launched a new initiative to help it regain profitability.  Starting May 1, customers making a cash withdrawal at any of the bank's 4,500 ATM machines will have exactly five seconds to grab...

With phone apps like these coming to market this year, it’s no wonder that Detroit app developer Drumple has seen its price-per-share rise from $2.34 to $2,539.00 in just the past six months: Pulsification: Aggregates the USA's top 25 corporate pulses and sorts them three ways - by the number...

Q) JoAnne is the Systems Coordinator in my office. She’s been there 37 years. JoAnne isn’t her real name, but I’m scared to use her real name because it might get back to her, and I don’t want to get on her bad side. Nobody wants to get on...

After a six-year evaluation, a task force at Houston's Falco Financial has conditionally recommended that CEO Marianne Willikin participate in the GDS Sludge Bath - where participants spend ten minutes fully clothed in a tub full of sludge to raise awareness for Gatson-Drake Syndrome.     “We consider it an...

Yesterday was Groundhog Day, and official groundhog Punxutawney Phil is not only predicting six more weeks of winter – but the for the first time he’s also forecasting business trends. “I felt it was time to diversify,” he told Bloomberg News. “These days people are looking for more than...

After 40 years and thousands of businesses hellbent on getting rid of him, the Middleman has finally thrown in the towel. On May 1, he enrolled in Midwest Barber College of Ashtabula, Ohio. “I needed something more dependable,” he says. With so many companies eliminating him, he says he's earning...