Running a business? Do you have employees or do you claim to have independent contractors?
Well if it’s the later that are in your coterie, you need to read this.
Continue reading Independent- or Not?
Nowadays, mostly due to the pandemic, checking into a hotel is vastly different than before. Many of us use an app on our phone, which provides us electronic access to our rooms. No checking in at the main desk, no waiting for keys to be printed, so we can enter our rooms.
Continue reading Take me to your leader?
I just don’t get it.
Microsoft Exchange Server updates in March- and is exploited for ransomware via backdoors left in the software.
Continue reading It’s not just four letter words that are problems. Cyber is a 5 letter one.
Come on! I can’t be all pandemic, all the time. Oh, wait, this is kind of about the pandemic situation. So, I guess -even in the height of (a now extended) tax season, the Covid-19 situation compels a lot of my attention.
Continue reading Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)
Here we go again.
Yes, the economy is in the doldrums. And, this time we weren’t taken down by foolhardy banks leaving us with the tab. Nope. This time it’s a pandemic. (OK, a foolhardy government that made believe the disease and its effects were a hoax.)
Continue reading Who Deserves a Bailout?
So, earlier this week, I wrote about the economic conditions in America. How we no longer believe in the American Dream, how wealth is being allocated to the 1% as the bottom 50% loses. How the wage gains some folks want you to think are due to our economic conditions are really just the result of the (finally approved) changes to the minimum wage.
Continue reading Where the money is
I have been listening to folks talk about the California bill (AB 5) that was just signed into law by Governor Gavin Newsom this minute. (OK, when this was written.) The provisions take effect on 1 January 2020, setting standards as to who is an employee and who is an independent contractor (such as drivers and delivery folks).
Continue reading Indentured Slavery is Over?
ASD. Autism spectrum disorder.
For those folks with ASD, it’s virtually certain they’ll be unemployed- or at best underemployed part-time. The basic fact is that 80% of those with ASD are unemployed.
Continue reading Our firms benefit with employees who manifest ASD
I found Mitch McConnell’s statement a few years ago that his top political priority was to deny President Obama a second term to be downright reprehensible. Only to be topped by his (false) claim that Supreme Court Justices are never approved in the final months of a president’s term, which killed Merrick Garland’s chance to be a great Supreme Court Justice.
Continue reading Look what’s sneaking in…
I had a meeting the other day with a very talented musician. He’s been preparing a brand new album and he wants to begin operating as a real business.
