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Month: June 2014

Getting Unstuck

Can a former employer prevent you from getting a job? Why, in America, yes! Now more than ever

June 9, 2014 Bob Sullivan 0

OK, free market defenders, time to stand up and be counted. Do you believe in competition, or not? Aptly named “non-compete clauses” are creeping into standard employment agreements across a host of low-wage industries, according to a story in The New York Times.  One such clause prevented a 19-year-old college [Keep reading]

Women in tech

Woman in tech: GenX’r on the importance of mentoring millennials

June 9, 2014 Bob Sullivan 1

Heather Dahl directs global analyst relations at a major communications technology firm Her new illustrated book, the Cynja, introduces kids to the world of technology and cybersecurity — you’ll hear more about this from me soon. She’s also Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Press Foundation. During [Keep reading]

Privacy

Town considers forcing bars to install always-on cop cams, Bill of Rights yells “LAST CALL!”

June 6, 2014 Bob Sullivan 0

Like father, like son.  Hey, if the NSA can do it, why can’t we?  A Wisconsin town council is considering an ordinance that would require every bar owner to install cameras, record every patron that comes in and out of the bar, store the video for 21 days, and……here’s the [Keep reading]

Getting Unstuck

How did The Plateau Effect help the Miami Heat repeat? The same way it can help you

June 5, 2014 Bob Sullivan 0

One-week special: Sign up and get free email Getting Unstuck help from Bob! Click to subscribe or read on Bob Sullivan and Hugh Thompson have helped the Miami Heat win consecutive NBA titles. Their book, The Plateau Effect/Getting Unstuck, has been featured on the cover of O! Magazine, and the Wall Street Journal, and [Keep reading]

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Gotchas / Consumer

Ground hog’s day: Sprint purchase of T-Mobile would be consumer disaster

June 5, 2014 Bob Sullivan 0

Noooooo.  Once again I will invoke the spirit of Teddy Roosevelt, the TrustBuster.  Cell phone carrier Sprint is said to be on the verge of a deal to acquire T-Mobile.  That would shrink the number of large U.S. carriers from four to three. American cell phone service is already too expensive [Keep reading]

Privacy

Verizon Wireless wants your most personal data, offers yucky auction points in return

June 3, 2014 Bob Sullivan 0

Verizon Wireless is rewarding long-term customers by tricking them into joining a ‘rewards’ program that A) Feels and works just like those yucky penny auction sites  B) let’s Verizon consume and sell immense amounts very sensitive personal information about you.  A very strong “boo,” to Verizon. Please stop abusing my [Keep reading]

No Picture
Getting Unstuck

Are you a perfectionist? Take the test…and start making changes now!

June 2, 2014 Bob Sullivan 0

  SPECIAL OFFER! This week only.  Sign up for the Getting Unstuck in Your Career 30-Day Challenge this week and get free e-mail career help from Bob. Click here to sign up. It’s fast and easy. And so we come to the end of the Getting Unstuck staircase.  It’s not an [Keep reading]

Privacy

The Right to be Forgotten vs. the Digital Scarlet Letter, and the world we don’t want to create

June 2, 2014 Bob Sullivan 0

The floodgates opened on the Right to be Forgotten this weekend, with 12,000 requests landing at search engine giant Google within the first 24 hours of a temporary form being made available.   You’ll recall that a European court recently ruled that EU citizens enjoy a Right to be Forgotten, [Keep reading]

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BOB SULLIVAN is a veteran journalist and the author of four books, including the 2008 New York Times Best-Seller, Gotcha Capitalism, and the 2010 New York Times Best Seller, Stop Getting Ripped Off! His latest, The Plateau Effect, was published in 2013, and as a paperback, called Getting Unstuck in 2014. He has won the Society of Professional Journalists prestigious Public Service award, a Peabody award, and The Consumer Federation of America Betty Furness award, and been given Consumer Action’s Consumer Excellence Award.

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