Humans are still needed in retail
This is a follow-up to my article regarding JCPenney’s decision to phase out human-operated cash registers for automated units: I visited the JCPenney’s in the Solomon Pond Mall to return…
Articles by Mike Rana
Emergency Unemployment Compensation seminar
If you are currently receiving unemployment benefits after the expiration of your state-allowed benefits, and it’s recent that you jumped on the federal program, reading this before-and-after might help you….
Privacy on the internet
Every time I see the words ‘privacy’ and ‘on the internet,’ I want to laugh until I turn blue in the face. Allow me to explain my raucous state of…
Apple vs Google
Replacing Google Maps with their own Disclaimer: I do not work for Apple or Google, nor do they compensate me for anything I say. Ever since both events happened, the…
Interviewing as a tool versus a search
There was a time when the only reason you were interviewing for a job was when you were looking to leave your current company, you were unemployed looking for work,…
Picture on Facebook gets reported
[http://www.theblaze.com/stories/facebook-bans-mother-for-posting-photos-of-baby-born-with-severe-birth-defect/ I have viewed TheBlaze for news stories, and I’ve even cited their articles in some of my political blogs, but there are some things that are just not news-worthy,…
Verizon is finally ending unlimited data plans
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57435601-94/verizon-to-kill-unlimited-data-plans-for-existing-subscribers/ Full disclosure: I do not work for or represent Verizon Wireless in any way. Out of all the possible sources, since Verizon themselves have not released anything, this is…
Clarification is king
This whole post started over a phone call to the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. The MADOT has recently announced that they will be retiring the FAST LANE name, and replacing…
Why I chose WI over any other state
You might want to get comfortable, this may take awhile to read. My decision to vacation in Wisconsin this year, versus any other state has four solid reasons: It’s outside…
Emotional states
e·mo·tion noun 1. an affective state of consciousness in which joy, sorrow, fear, hate, or the like, is experienced, as distinguished from cognitive and volitional states of consciousness. 2. any…
