By Lindsey Campbell, Captains of Industry
Hey Captains’ Readers,
Here’s your Wednesday Deal:
1. R.I.P. Nightly News
Remember when your parents would tune into the evening news when they got home from work? It was like a ritual. My parents would watch, and then they would complain for the rest of the night about money/politics/bad people/war, or all of the above. It’s a lovely childhood memory that I hold dear to my heart. But the thing that sticks out in my mind the most is that I had absolutely no desire to watch with them. I figured that someday I’d wake up and basically turn into an adult. I’d watch the evening news, drink gallons of coffee, and sporadically slam my fist down and curse the stock market. Well, now that I’m a full-fledged adult, 401k and all, I’m finding that although I’m appropriately addicted to caffeine and care about the S&P, I’ve yet to fill one of my evenings with the nightly news. And I’m not alone.
With all of the various forms of media out there to retrieve news, its no wonder Generation X and Y aren’t carving out time in their schedules for a nightly dose of television news. And to add insult to injury, Garth Meyer of Beyond Madison Avenue explains that the majority of spots that run during the evening news are for things like sexual dysfunction, Alzheimer’s and bone loss. And no one, including those the spots are targeted to, enjoys watching these commercials. With Twitter, Facebook and on demand news updates, there’s very little hope that the nightly news will attract a younger generation of viewers any time soon. Meyer thinks that if more commercials were targeted to younger markets, the nightly news might have a prayer of surviving. I tend to doubt it. But what the heck, I’m a sucker for a come back. We’re all pulling for you, evening news!
2. Always have a Bic. Your (sex) life depends on it.
Some things only happen once in a lifetime. Blue moons. True love. Your first kiss. And when those monumental moments happen, you need to be prepared. That’s why Bic decided to teach men everywhere a lesson they’ll never forget: Never leave home without a Bic pen. Unfortunately for them, it’ll probably be the only thing they DO remember.
3. How to Battle a Mean girl. And win.
Most of the mean girls that used to torture you with hidden 3-way phone calls, constant trash talking and various other weapons of mass social destruction in high school do actually grow up. They become normal people and they live normal lives. Why? Well, according to Barbara Kantrowitz and Pat Wingert at Newsweek, by the age of 25 the part of our brain that controls the ability to recognize consequences has reached its full maturity. But the rest of the queen bees? They continue to torture their adult peers like ants trapped under a magnifying glass on an especially sunny day. And the worst part is, most of these women claw their way to positions of real power. CEOs, politicians, and even reality-TV-show stars have made the top spots on the Mean Girl Hall of Fame. In fact, Rosalind Wiseman, author of Queen Bees and Wannabes, explains that the exposure to this type of behavior only reinforces other women to accept their erratic outbursts and downright demonic behavior. So what’s a girl to do?
Surprisingly, be nice. Since high school, I myself have been wondering why women are so heinous to each other. Before I even meet another girl, I anticipate that she’s going to give me the once over-cold shoulder combo. But what can melt those icy stares? Ironically, being nice. And guess what? It works almost every time. I think the problem with mean girls is that they are just nice girls who don’t know how to communicate. And when they get hurt, they throw down the gauntlet to salvage their pride rather than maning up and laying it all out on the table. So the next time you run into a mean girl, try being nice. And if that doesn’t work, the good thing about being out of high school is that you don’t have to deal with her for the next four years if you don’t want to.
Until tomorrow,
Captain Lindsey
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