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FOTLC (that's "Friend of TheLadders.com"), Steve, sent me this link today.
Sadly, I could probably do the 9 beers in 9 innings (actually, I know I can, although the 16 oz part could be tough). But the hot dogs part is just abusive.
If there is a good reason it's costing me $220 to get to Boston and back to NYC (without getting airborne at any point), I'm guessing you have something to do with it.
Let's break this down Mastercard style:
Golf on Saturday with the old friends: $95 (greens fees, multiple beers on the course not included).
Wedding gift: $100 (straight cash, homey)
Hotel for the wedding: $70
Getting to Boston and back: $220
Taking a bus back to Boston at 6:45 PM on Friday night leaving from midtown NYC: Frickin' PRICELESS.
There's something about turning the corner and seeing the giant inflatable rat. It gets me every time.
Now this is recruitment advertising...
So is this (boring), this (boring-er), and this (boring-est). But Meetup.com CEO Scott Heiferman puts the big guy (Google) squarely in his sites and goes at them hard. I love it.
More companies should do this. I've seen this once before done so overtly. When Siebel was acquired a few years back, Salesforce.com was offering a $5000 signing bonus to any Siebel employees right on the Salesforce.com homepage.
I've always joked that you can tell if someone has ever smoked pot before by how quickly they can identify a Pink Floyd song when it comes on the radio.
Judging by this newscaster's reaction to this 911 call though, I may have to add another indicator to my list.
Well, at least some of us. I don't (refuse) have one.
Ski2Sun, on the other hand, currently finds himself in an interesting predicament. Thankfully for him, he is on a Blackberry.
Ski2Sun: what are you doing this weekend?
Me: I am exhausted...worked like 70 hours this week. Parents in town tomorrow, doing an early dinner. What you got for me?
Ski2Sun: I got nothing...relaxing a little...I'm pretty beat
Me: I need a few dozen hours of straight couch sitting. I also haven't gone to the gym since before new Orleans.
Ski2Sun: I haven't gone since israel.
Me: You are a pig.
Ski2Sun (from his Blackberry): I am in the bathroom right now. I just realized that there is no toilet paper.
Me: Blackberry someone on your floor to bring you some.
Ski2Sun: I just ripped up one of those toilet seat cover things
Ahhh...so that's how we lived before Blackberrys...
JetBlue is a fantastic airline; despite the fact that most of their flights from New York leave from JFK, they are my overwhelming choice for most of my air travel.
This winter they had a pretty embarrassing system-wide meltdown that grounded thousands this winter.
Befitting a company that describes itself as a "customer service company that happens to be an airline", JetBlue's CEO, David Neeleman, went into full apology mode. He hit the national media, drew up a Passenger Bill of Rights, and began proactively offering vouchers for flights that were delayed.
It wasn't enough, unfortunately. Neeleman was forced out as CEO today.
I hope that the new CEO brings JetBlue's operations up to the level of their customer service, and not the level of their customer service down to their operations. That would be a big shame.
I've met Dave Mendoza a few times at various recruitment industry events over the last couple of years. There's one thing that really sticks out about Dave: He is passionate about destroying the status quo in recruiting. That's why I like him.
Last week he took the time to profile me on his blog, Six Degrees from Dave.
Click here to read more.
Thanks Dave!
Hot of the presses!
TheLadders.com Announces RecruitLadder Premium.
We've spent almost a full year working on the next generation of our Professional Network. It looks fantastic and I'm super excited to start selling it next week. If any recruiter is interested in learning more about our new offering and service, please contact me at michael (at) theladders (dot) com.
One of the best things about working at TheLadders.com is when we hear from job seekers and recruiters that they've had success using TheLadders.com.
We conduct an optional exit survey when job seekers unsubscribe where we ask them to tell us about their new role (if there is one). For example, we learned today that 16 people that unsubscribed yesterday found a job on TheLadders.com. That's a nice number (it represents a minimum of $1.6 million in salary).
Some of the companies that have had success recruiting on TheLadders.com just in the past week include:
Microsoft
Oracle
McKesson
RSM McGladrey
Merrill Lynch
Sun Microsystems
Citigroup
Wachovia
Cisco
Lowe's
In other words, what we're doing is working!