corporate-america

Faster, Starbucks Robots!

Hamilton Nolan · 08/04/09 12:00PM

You, Starbucks worker: Your inefficiencies are showing! You lean to scoop coffee at a sub-optimal angle! You waste precious seconds with your sloppy human movements! Improve efficiency, serve coffee two seconds faster on average! Move swiftly for mother company's glory!

Edelman Memo or Totalitarian Propaganda?

Hamilton Nolan · 07/16/09 04:18PM

Massive enemy PR firm Edelman is moving its office from Times Square to Hudson Square. Employees received (and leaked!) a motivational brochure that has a decidedly...propagandist design style. Compare:

Wretched Interns Desperately Compete for Life-Sustaining Snack Cakes

Hamilton Nolan · 07/14/09 04:27PM

Things have gotten so bad that unpaid corporate interns are literally starving. Across America, interns are desperately prostituting their fresh young smiling faces in return for a single box of Little Debbie muffins, so they may live another day.

Successful Writer Feels Not So Successful

Hamilton Nolan · 06/23/09 12:51PM

In your perennial Tuesday media column: It still sucks to be a writer, sucks if you bought a newspaper, sucks to make stock picks, sucks to produce news on television, and somebody got a new job!

The*Real* Idiot's Guide to Workplace Racism

Hamilton Nolan · 05/13/09 04:45PM

We live in a racist world, but the Delaware Department of Transportation is doing something about it: issuing a hilarious memo! Who wrote this, some "retard" "homo" "typical white person?" Below, the best idiot guidelines: