Profile for Umwelt
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- Hi everyone. I'm a new user of this site and haven't updated my bio yet, but feel free to send me a message if you would like to know more about me.
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- on 24/6/08
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Buffalo’s amazing collection of 19th and 20th Century architecture is featured on the cover of today’s edition of The New York Times Arts & Leisure section in an articl... Continue Reading
The Onion article is too funny...where is our suburban-obsessed commenter "Dan"? pwn3d.
Jump to storyImagine if we had a subway system that went somewhere and ran 24 hrs a day. That would work just fine and be cheap. The subway is useless unless you live 4 blocks off main st.
Jump to storyClown? Third most Fortune 500 company headquarters of any city, including HQ of Coca-Cola, Home Depot, and UPS. The metro area is also home to HQs of AT&T Mobile, Georgia-Pacific, Delta Airlines, Equifax, S...
Jump to story@estreet, lose to who? Rudy Giuliani? Are you serious?
Jump to storyWhatever. Atlanta's pretty crappy too when you think about it: their biggest employer is Delta Airlines. An old school dinosaur airline. How clown is that? Their banks all got bought up by Wachovia, and ever...
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Umwelt's Comments
What Do We Want To Be When We Grow Up?
I was distracted when I wrote that, sorry if it went astray. To clarify and summarize my previous post, it is my impression and experience that the Buffalo workforce lags behind other areas in terms of motivation, trust, self-direction, determi…
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What Do We Want To Be When We Grow Up?
In my experience with Buffalo workers, I find them to be relatively unmotivated and distrusting of corporations and management. This seems to be a pervasive culture, probably ingrained from the "blue collar heritage" and collective bargaining cult…
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Holding On To Number Three
Forbes is looking at this from the wrong angle because the most miserable sports cities are those without professional sports franchises. There is a risk with having your city and reputation associated with a professional sports team, we have to r…
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WBFO and BRO: City Living, Bars, Bikes and the April BRM
Benfranklin - I left my previous employer to take the job in Buffalo. It took a little while to find and land the right job but it was time well spent. My wife works in Amherst, about 10 minutes from where we live. I work downtown, about 20 minu…
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