So Eddie Lampert fires Sear's CEO and also announces that each division will be a separately managed entity...what - 2 days after the recommendation appeared here? Yeah - like I said - send me a check!
Ok, enough financial genius. What's REALLY got my panties in the bunch is finally realizing what language I SHOULD have been learning in high school, not what I actually wasted my time on...
Last year I'm in Hawaii (yeah, I know - a long way from Kabul), snorkling around when a notice a local guy that had about 20 Japanese tourists with him suiting up for a dive. The interesting things was, he spoke PERFECT Japanese, and had complete command of his audience. This went on for the week or so I was there, each day with a different group of tourists from Japan.
Then it hit me - what are these guys paying him? Figure about $100 a head (at least), times 20 heads = $2000 a day gross, less, call it $500 in expenses...still, $1500 for half a days work? In Hawaii? On the beach?
This is the part where you go "Boy, aren't *I* glad I can order beers and ask where the bathroom is in Tiajuana..."
Moral of the story - do what everyone else in the world outside the U.S. does - learn the language of the countries that have all the money, not the ones that don't...
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