Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. When your customers complain a lot, is it always your fault? Or could it be that you need a better class of customer? I teeter into this philosophical conundrum after looking at the list of U.S. airlines […]
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Never imagine that life is fair. The best you can hope for is poetry. Poetry can even lift pain to the level of art and greed to the level of pity. Which brings me to Harvard economics
An airline CEO says he’s voluntarily reducing his salary, and it has nothing to do with how profitable the company is. The reason? With the cut of a little under 5 percent, he’ll match the salary of his predecessor, who was a woman. Now, CEO pay cuts aren’t unheard of. Tim Cook’s pay dropped last
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. So there you are seated in your comfortable surroundings. You’re an important customer, waited upon with assiduous care. These fancy first class lounges aren’t for the riff-raff, after all. Why, Qantas just forbade The Human League’s Joanne Catherall from
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Christmas Carols are playing in airports. Staff are wearing their Santa hats. Everyone’s infused with Christmas spirit. Except, a woman says, Spirit Airlines. As KPRC2 reports, this unnamed mom says she was sitting in a Spirit Airlines plane at Houston
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Status consciousness can affect human consciousness. It’s easy for us to decide that we’re not who we think we are, but who others think we must be. So we surround ourselves with trappings and sneer at those
Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek It seems like such a simple request. Sadly, when it comes to airlines these days, few requests are simple. Ask for a blanket when you’re sitting in coach and you might have to pay $12. Now
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Hideto Kijima lost the use of his legs when he was 17. 27 years later, he’s now the head Japan Accessible Tourism Center in Toyonaka. However, on a recent flight from Amami Oshima Island to Osaka,
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Absurdly Driven looks at the world of business with a skeptical eye and a firmly rooted tongue in cheek. Admit it, this thought always crosses your mind. You’re booked in coach. You hear the boarding announcement. You’ve already been discreetly scanning other people’s boarding cards, as they clutch them and wondering. When you take your
