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...young people who hop from one part-time job to another, their income cobbled from their parents' handouts and minimum-wage jobs. Employment for life? These kids don't think much past tonight's handful of mushrooms. These are the latest incarnation of the people Japanese mothers used to warn their kids about, the types known pejoratively as furyo, good-for-nothings, or asobi-nin, partyers, who would never get jobs in big companies and would never wear business suits. Their lifestyle, in short, is perfectly suited to the laid-back ethic embodied by freewheeling psychedelia. "It's the result...
Companies have the legal right to monitor their employees' Web surfing, e-mail and instant messaging. Many do, whether they warn their workers or not--so don't count on any of it remaining private. Last month the University of Tennessee released more than 900 pages of archived e-mail between an administrator and a married college president in which the administrator wrote of her love for him and of her use of drugs and alcohol to deal with her unhappiness. Employers, including the New York Times and Dow Chemical, have fired workers for sending inappropriate e-mail...
...Warren Buffett (who won't touch a PC stock) took a fair amount of grief for their technophobic ways. To their credit, they raised awareness of the risks building throughout the stock market--and in tech land in particular. Yet I thought they were wrong to warn individual investors consistently off tech stocks entirely, and I said so in a November 1999 column...
...that fancy new gear failed to warn of the present slowdown or keep companies from stockpiling unsold goods. (We have no "visibility," corporate chieftains declaim.) "If the decline in sales is dramatic," says Shepherdson, "all the technology isn't going to tell you it's coming...
...York-based child and family therapist who has written multiple books on parenting, the message is clear. "This study shows that if there is a gun in the home, kids will gravitate towards it," Wallace told TIME.com. "Parents can say no, no don?t touch that, and warn the kids about the gun, but it won?t matter. This kind of study really supports the notion that there is inherent danger in having a gun in the home...