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  • On Fraud and Credit Cards

    On Fraud and Credit Cards

    Via The Consumerist: Enter Merchantfraud, a group of well-intentioned but foolish outlaws who advocate having customers ask them for stickers identifying the companies as violators, then sticking them on offenders’ storefronts. I agree with the author of this article to an extent. Calling business establishments robbers...

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  • On Resume Typos

    On Resume Typos

    From The Consumerist: Sorry, kids, but humor has no place in a cover letter, and unfunny humor has no place anywhere. Don’t depend on a spell checker – print your resume out and look it over, read it out loud to yourself, and have another...

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