Eight Percent Less Sales, Too.

in the news, January 30, 2006

Kraft Foods Inc., the nation's largest food manufacturer, said Monday it would eliminate 8,000 more jobs, or about 8 percent of its work force, and close up to 20 production plants as it broadens an ongoing restructuring effort.

Okay Kraft, Ford, General Motors, and the rest of the knucklehead corporations in the news lately, just who is going to buy Kraft food products, new Fords & Chevys, computers, homes, etc. when nobody is working at a good paying job anymore?

Sure, the gov't. tells us that 4.5 million new jobs have been created recently, but I think those jobs have all been at McDonalds, aren't they? Nothing to really pay the bills with.

I have a funny feeling that the true problem is company officers, executives, and managers that didn't pay attention when they were in business school, took the lazy way out, and don't have any idea how to run a company. Admit it, you have all been just faking it and you have no idea what to do now, right? Bluffing your way to making money and living large off the backs of the real "America Builders" of the last generations. Now that it's your turn to really run a company, you haven't a clue what to do because you weren't in class.

So...lay everybody off! Increase your profit share, and POP your golden parachute! That's all you know how to do. Bail Out!

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Peter Townshend made me deaf... Who!?

The level of loud noise is measured in decibels, with 0 being the softest sound someone can hear and 194 being the loudest sound possible. Noise levels above 140 decibels can cause damage to hearing after a single exposure, experts say. Here is how loud some everyday things are:
In decibels

50 - Rainfall, large office
60 - Normal conversation
70 - TV audio, freeway traffic
80 - Alarm clock, ringing telephone
95 - Lawnmower
110 - Leafblower, car horn
117 - Stadium football game
120 - Rock concert, ambulance siren, thunder
130 - Percussion section at symphony
140 - Threshold of pain, airplane taking off
150 - Jet engine taking off, firecracker
170 - Shotgun
180 - Rocket launching

Sources: OHSA, Centers for Disease Control & League for Hard of Hearing

This fellow walks into a bar and says, "Hey, I just got a great new hearing aid" The bartender says, "What kind is it?" The fellow looks at his watch and says "It's twelve-thirty" Ha-ha-ha. I slay myself.

On his Web site, Townshend has warned iPod users that they could end up with hearing problems as bad as his own if they don't turn down the volume of the music they are listening to on earphones. Townshend, 60, Genius, and guitarist in '60s rock band The Who, said his hearing was irreversibly damaged by years of using studio headphones.

Tommy? ...Tommy?