Let Us Give Thanks

What we’re thankful for this November:

• The vision of our Gen-X employees may be bad from growing up in front ofcomputer screens, but laser eye surgery is getting cheaper.

• Our stock in Amazon, Ask Jeeves and Buy.com (and all the rest) can’t getmuch lower.

• Goodyear.

• A member of the HR profession, Richard Hatch, was the sole”Survivor.”

• The Olympics have gotten so good at drug testing, they’re taking goldmedals from people who’ve taken cold medicine.

• Toll-free help lines to HRMS providers.

• The United Nations has realized that helping cure world poverty will helpachieve world peace.

• Telephones — still much better for talking than e-mail.

• eBay.

• We never hear the phrase “Total Quality Management” anymore.

• We don’t always get a busy signal anymore when we dial into AOL.

• At last, an answer to the labor shortage – cloning.

• You all like our e-mail newsletter so much, you e-mail to tell us when it’s late.

• United Airlines’ labor problems may be ending.

• The 2004 presidential election is just beginning.