Human resources boss Jackie Reses sent out a memo telling all remote employees that, by June, they needed to be working in Yahoo offices.
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Mayer – who had a baby last fall – is a working mother, but she’s able to bring her kid to work.
That’s because when Mayer had her son last fall, she paid to have a nursery built in her office.
Senator Elizabeth Warren’s First Banking Committee Hearing
Warren, former Harvard law professor, wondering why no one is doing their fucking job.
“There are district attorneys and United States attorneys out there every day squeezing ordinary citizens on sometimes very thin grounds and taking them to trial in order to make an example, as they put it. I’m really concerned that ‘too big to fail’ has become ‘too big for trial,’” Warren said.
A Warren constituent, open-Internet activist Aaron Swartz, recently committed suicide after being hounded by federal prosecutors who reportedly said they wanted to “make an example” of him. Warren had met and said she admired Swartz and, after he died, expressed her concern by attending his memorial in Washington.
What could possibly go wrong?
I’m kicking myself for not thinking of this. I could’ve been rich.
In addition to masterminding Nickelback’s ascent, Kroeger, 37, has found ways for his band to make money onstage and off, through licensing, merchandising, and product-placement agreements. He’s also helped groom many other acts, including some that the haters might even like. He co-owns the record company that released Carly Rae Jepsen’s ubiquitous summer smash, Call Me Maybe. He co-writes songs for other major artists and helps to promote them. As of May 2011, the rock-star-cum-business-mogul was earning $9.7 million a year from his various ventures, according to court records filed with the Supreme Court of British Columbia. He has a vacation home with friends in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico, a 20-acre farm with stables in British Columbia, and his own home recording studio. Chad Kroeger is not just a drunken rock god: He’s a kingmaker.
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Smart decisions have built Nickelback into a production conglomerate, with concerns that stretch across industries and genres. One of Nickelback’s two openers in Noblesville, for example, is the band My Darkest Days. Kroeger owns royalty rights to their songs because he helped write some of them and produced their current album on his own music label.
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Kroeger writes far more songs than Nickelback can release. Since 2001 he’s penned more than 150 songs for both his band and major artists in completely different categories, including classic rock (Why Don’t You & I for Carlos Santana), country (It’s a Business Doing Pleasure With You for Tim McGraw), and hip-hop (Tomorrow in a Bottle for Timbaland).
Didn’t eat. Lied about messing up at work and got a coworker fired. No health insurance. Stole money. Ignored medical and social disasters from family, friends, and pets. Borrowed money from everyone to pay bills. All I can say is…
@NeedADebitCard’s feed is populated by posts like this (photos not included because, come on):
- “Gave the birthday girl my credit card her for bday, go nuts bbgirl! [PHOTO OF DEBIT CARD]”- “NO MORE WAITING IN LINE WHEN I DON’T HAVE MY DEBIT CARD [PHOTO OF DEBIT CARD]”- “Just found my credit card :) Haha [MIND-BLOWINGLY READABLE PHOTO OF DEBIT CARD]”
Music industry group says it’s owed more than the entire world’s GDP in damages
An interview with journalist Steve Coll, writer of Private Empire ExxonMobil and American Power.
25% or so of ExxonMobil’s oil liquids production in a given year today takes place in West Africa.
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These are troubled states and the stability that arises there is often enforced by an authoritarian leader whose power is itself paid for by the revenue he gets from oil companies and oil sales.
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The United States government in Chad gives, in total every year… not more than 10 million dollars. Exxonmobil’s country representivie office cuts a check to the leader of Chad every year for more than 700 million dollars. Now in a country that poor, if you’re the dictator, who are you gonna call?
