A new blog I am starting... thoughts? ------------------------ The Business Burn A weekly roast of the business news. Week of 10.13.14 A brewery in Finland is remaking a 19th century beer that was found in a recent shipwreck discovery. The empty bottles found by the captain’s wheel explained the shipwreck. The brewery says this beer tastes like history… so it turns out that history tastes a lot like salt water and fish eggs. ----- A recent report shows that Wall Street’s latest darling, Alibaba aka China’s Amazon, allows companies to sell torture devices. It turns out that it was just the new U2 album. ----- The latest trend in restaurants is an all mac-and-cheese menu. The down side is that these restaurants are having trouble keeping crayon drawings off the tables. ----- Apple and Facebook have offered their female employees $20,000 to freeze their ovaries. A similar program allows male employees to have 5-7 minute breaks. ----- French economist Jean Tirole won the Nobel prize for economics. It is the highest honor an economist can earn… other than not working in economics. ----- Jimmy John’s low wage workers are complaining that they have to sign an oppressive non-compete contract. Not only can they not work for anyone who serves a sandwich, but they are also not allowed to work at places that look like the inside of a trapper keeper. ----- A new employment report shows that robots are rapidly replacing warehouse workers. As it turns out, a smoke break for these robots means there is a fire in the warehouse. ---- The beard trend is costing the shaving industry millions of dollars a year. But upon further inspection, it is not because of a fashion trend. This sales decline is because people do not like having more than three blades pressed against their neck. ----- Uber recently received an F rating by the Better Business Bureau for their surge pricing model during busier hours. This report prompted Uber to change their slogan to, ‘Its still cheaper than a DUI.’ ----- HBO announced they will now offer streaming service. Insiders are saying that this is the worse thing to happen to Comcast since Comcast’s customer service.
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 17:45:14 +0000
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