The Journal of Labor Research claims to have a proof study that shows all us alcoholics are better off than anyone else…. That’s right drinkers are better off than non-drinkers.
“Social drinking builds social capital,” said Edward Stringham, an economics professor at San Jose State University and co-author of the study with fellow researcher Bethany Peters.
“Social drinkers are out networking, building relationships, and adding contacts to their BlackBerries that result in bigger paychecks.”
The problem with this study is that this hypothesis is as they admit based on “casual observation and examination of scholarly accounts”. Which means just by watching drunks at a bar and observing their paychecks they’ve made the claim that drinkers are richer than those poor bastards that don’t go out and can’t afford the $10 cocktail and hence don’t socialize in those liquor fuels settings… hmmm… quite observant guys!
Funny how this article does not point out that socializing in bars under the influence is a direct result of the chemical reactions to alcohol – its called intoxication.
Mindless fun if you want to read the whole story:
Alcohol use helps boost income: study
I have to say the regional director and his counter part are some very smart individuals; very well capable of leading an enterprise team and I’d work for them selectively again, however, the flaw came in hiring a middle manager for myself and 2 others. Initially he impressed me with his ability to quickly digest a situation and regurgitate it back out to whom every he was speaking to in the most simplistic form. However, his failing came in dealing with people (especially clients) and this is huge for a sales person. I can’t see where this guy gets the skills to run an enterprise team. After 5 months, the manager still doesn’t get the simpilist aspects of wireless or the difference between IDS and IPS. But more so, the rub is he’s not of use for me to help navigate the processes of the company, can’t be a go to guy to fight for terms, and has been reduced to a roadblock to get things done rather than a motivator within the group. The only time I would interface with him, was the mandatory daily check-ins in the morning, the daily call reports, the activity reporting, some hr crap and the like. I serious believe his need for micromanagement had me spending more time generating activity reports than developing revenue generating conversations with customers… what a loss of motivation, not to mention waste of my own time to get a pay check.
