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Despair Inc.™: Problem Employees? It’s Not You, It’s Them: Leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of “The Art of Demotivation,” shows how to manage three types of problem employees. Whether you’re dealing with the “perpetually offended employee,” the “aggrieved superstar,” or the “egomaniac,” the answer is simple: they need to be grateful for what they have.; Tags: satire, humor, Despair Inc., E.L. Kersten; Videos 2007-12-04
Despair Inc.™: Battle Bureaucracy with Fake “Crises” and Caffeine: If your company is at all established and successful, it’s probably already become a bloated, uninspiring workplace, says leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of “The Art of Demotivation.” Here’s how to take back your company by overcaffeinating your workers, limiting their contact with the outside world, and teaching them...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, workplace, worker; Videos 2007-12-04
Despair Inc.™: Why Workplace “Communication” Is Overrated: According to leading satirist Dr. E.L. Kersten, author of “The Art of Demotivation,” the source of workplace conflict is often misdiagnosed. What’s seen as a simple “misunderstanding” or “failure to communicate” really runs much deeper: Your coworkers don’t actually like you. Kersten helps clarify the situation by translating what they’re...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, workplace; Videos 2007-12-04

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FIVE BEST PLAYS: Small Change (Donmar Warehouse, london) Cracking revival by Peter Gill of his 1976 play about two working- class boys struggling to extricate themselves from the apron strings of their domineering mothers. (08700 606 624) to 31 May One...; Articles 2008-05-08
Will.i.am wins Webby award for Obama video: NEW YORK AFP — Hip hop star will.i.am, whose Internet videos for US presidential hopeful Barack Obama have attracted millions of hits, is one of the big winners in this year's Webby Awards, organizers announced Tuesday. Will.i.am, frontman of the Black Eyed Peas, joins satirical comedian Stephen Colbert...; Articles 2008-05-06

'You Can Get Anything You Want … ' At Hard Rock Park: Arlo Guthrie Spices up Hard Rock Park with the Incarnation of Alice's Restaurant MYRTLE BEACH, S.C., May 5 /PRNewswire/ -- First a hugely popular satirical 60's song, then a major motion picture... and now you can actually get a table at the famed "Alice's Restaurant" when the...; Articles 2008-05-05
COMMUNITY CALENDAR: All in bloom - More than 300 varieties of iris, including mini, border and tall-bearded types and in every color combination imaginable, can be seen at Toad Hollow during its annual Mother's Day weekend tour. Peonies, poppies and larkspur may be blooming. Tour between 1 p.m. and dusk on Saturday...; Articles 2008-05-04
Real Charlie Wilson toppled 'evil empire': If there's one constant in the extraordinary, almost mythic story of former U.S. Rep. Charlie Wilson, who was instrumental in bringing about the defeat of the Soviet Union in Afghanistan, it's that it is shot through with irony after contradiction, and contradiction after irony. Wilson -- whose...; Articles 2008-05-04
Five best comedy gigs: Jenny Eclair tonight, Wed & Fri Jenny Eclair is a preternaturally vivacious stand-up presence. In her Because I Forgot to Get a Pension show, the 1995 Perrier Award- winner touches on the problems of being the mother of a teenage daughter. Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, tonight; Royal...; Articles 2008-05-03
Five best London shows: Shakespeare's Histories Roundhouse The Royal Shakespeare Company presents eight dramas chronicling more than a century of English history. To 25 May Small Change Donmar Warehouse Cracking revival by Peter Gill of his 1976 play, starring Luke Evans and Matt Ryan as...; Articles 2008-05-03
Five best London shows: Shakespeare's Histories Roundhouse The Royal Shakespeare Company presents eight dramas chronicling more than a century of English history. To 24 May Small Change Donmar Warehouse Cracking revival by Peter Gill of his 1976 play, starring Luke Evans and Matt Ryan as...; Articles 2008-05-03
SPECATATOR'S NOTES, THE: If, when you read this, Boris Johnson is the Mayor of London, it will, I have just discovered, be thanks to me. When the idea of Boris's candidacy was first suggested, I spoke on the telephone to Mary Wakefield, who is now the deputy editor of The Spectator. What did...; Articles 2008-05-03
The Slab Boys are older, not wiser: Theatre NOVA SCOTIA Traverse Theatre EDINBURGH *** WHEN TO RUN Royal Exchange MANCHESTER *** With the emergence of Nova Scotia, John Byrne's cult Slab Boys trilogy, begun 30 years ago, officially becomes a quartet. Of the boys introduced as colour-mixers in the slab...; Articles 2008-05-02
NO LAUGHING MATTER: Mikhail Zlatkovsky, left, has been lampooning Russian leaders since the days of perestroika. But he has discovered that satire permitted by Gorbachev and Yeltsin is dangerous under Putin. By Shaun Walker Cartoons and the Kremlin With his easily recognisable features, his...; Articles 2008-04-30
World-Leading High Tech Companies to Celebrate 40th Anniversary: MONROEVILLE, Pa., April 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Three Monroeville-based companies that are prominent members of the Pennsylvania high-technology community and leaders in the global high-tech manufacturing and service sectors, will celebrate 40 years in business with a shared anniversary gala to be held April 30th at the Carnegie Music Hall...; Articles 2008-04-28
The Seven Days of Peter Crumb By Jonny Glynn Portobello Pounds 7.99: *** There are glimpses in this novel of a time when Peter Crumb was a normal, functioning member of society, who had a job, a wife and a child. Now he finds society unendurable, humanity intolerable, and is living in a squalid east London flat; alone save...; Articles 2008-04-27
SUNDAY 27.04: PICK OF THE DAY Bremner, Bird and Fortune 7pm C4 The satire continues with some up-to-the-minute fun at the expense of the US Presidential candidates, the 2012 Olympics and Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson, fierce rivals in the race to be London's Mayor. ...; Articles 2008-04-26
Five best London revivals: A Night with Roger Corman Fri 11.30pm The king of the B-movies himself introduces two of his favourite exploitation pics: The Intruder, made in 1962 and starring William Shatner, and The Masque of the Red Death from 1964, with Vincent Price. Curzon Soho The...; Articles 2008-04-26
Another step on the road to disaster: In the dwindling life of a government in the purely palliative stage of terminal disease, Tom Lehrer moments come thick and fast. Satire has died countless times since Henry Kissinger went to Stockholm to collect a peace prize brought to us in association with the Acme Napalm Company, and the...; Articles 2008-04-25
Also in theaters: Harold & Kumar Escape From Guantanamo Bay **1/2 In a film that is even more raunchy and raucous than its predecessor, Harold and Kumar are still focused on the pleasures of weed and wild women, but this long, strange trip of a sequel also is surprisingly...; Articles 2008-04-25

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