Not to mention, if you are a clued-in line manager, you'd better hope your boss has a clue, too. From personal experience, coming up with a realistic schedule and defending it can get you canned quickly, and a yes-man brought in to replace you.
Repetitive commercials are part psychology, but there is some rationality behind a consumer's decision to go with a heavily advertised product.
More adverts = more money the company spent on adverts More money company spends on adverts = more money company (hopefully) has More money company has = more money they received in revenue because they had a quality(?) product
When was the last time you bought a product you had never heard advertised?
Oh, fer chrissakes. One way to describe a surgeon is a human body Mechanic. Would it make you feel better if they referred to themselves that way?
People like to feel important - hence Admin Assistant instead of Secretary. If someone wants to call themselves a Sanitation Engineer (or MCSE for that matter) I say God bless 'em -- I doubt they have any illusions of pulling down six figures anytime soon.
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Not to mention, if you are a clued-in line manager, you'd better hope your boss has a clue, too. From personal experience, coming up with a realistic schedule and defending it can get you canned quickly, and a yes-man brought in to replace you.
Repetitive commercials are part psychology, but there is some rationality behind a consumer's decision to go with a heavily advertised product.
More adverts = more money the company spent on adverts
More money company spends on adverts = more money company (hopefully) has
More money company has = more money they received in revenue because they had a quality(?) product
When was the last time you bought a product you had never heard advertised?
Richard Garfield never envisioned people buying crates of the cards to get four of the rare ones in their deck...
Never envisioned it without also having visions of dancing dollar signs, you mean.
Seriously, the whole point of putting rare cards in any collectible card game is so that people will buy crates of cards to get them...
Oh, fer chrissakes. One way to describe a surgeon is a human body Mechanic. Would it make you feel better if they referred to themselves that way?
People like to feel important - hence Admin Assistant instead of Secretary. If someone wants to call themselves a Sanitation Engineer (or MCSE for that matter) I say God bless 'em -- I doubt they have any illusions of pulling down six figures anytime soon.