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The weather will be just right to visit Wisconsin Dells, WI on April 20th. I will be presenting Uncrapify Your Life! for the Wisconsin Bankers Association. If you have never been to the Dells, you absolutely have to go. Wisconsin Dells has the best water parks in the country, bar none, and also more fudge…

On April 19 I will be at Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, IL promoting How to Get Fired!. I’ll be back in my home state, full of corn and soybeans and, you know, more corn and soybeans. I love corn, and I love soybeans. The soybean, incidentally, is one of the most amazing organisms on…

I will be performing How to Get Fired! at Mercyhurst College in Erie, PA on April 14th. I love the name of this college. It alternately sounds loving and painful at the same time, and would look excellent on someone’s upper arm, perhaps surrounded by flames, but most definitely centered over a heart with a…

Just a little note here to let you know that I’ll be on TV in Dayton, Ohio on April 9th. I’m sure you’ve heard of Dayton, everyone, it’s the home of…well…all those people who live in Dayton. I’ve actually performed in Dayton before at Wiley’s Comedy Club. Ah, the memories. —– Jeff Havens is a…

Customer Service: Charge People for Things They Are Used to Getting for Free!!!

I am just going to assume that most of you know what you get for free. Or used to get for free. Take a moment if you need to remind yourself what those things were. Most businesses are finding new and innovative ways to charge for things you once expected to have handed to you.…

Continuing with my tour de higher education, I will be at Indiana University-Kokomo, doing How to Get Fired! Oh, and the Indiana University-Kokomo mascot is the Cougars, which is super-awesome given that one of their biggest majors is nursing, it’s 70% female, and the average student is over 25.  I simply cannot think of a place…

Welcome back, students! I will be starting the summer semester at Culver-Stockton College in Canton, Missouri today, April 6th. Culver-Stockton is the smallest college I have ever heard of, with an entire school population just under 600 people. I’d imagine that rush must be pretty easy for the Greeks on campus- “Hey, guess what! You’re…

Customer Service: That’s Some Fine Print Work, Lou.

When you think of fine print, you might think of your local car dealership ads in the newspaper (you know, that roll of gray paper that used to show up on your doorstep every morning when you were a kid. It had the funnies in it…you now use it to pack things when you move.…

Spying – It’s Not Wrong If They Never Find Out

As we all know, the moment you step inside your place of employment, you are subject to the whims of your employer. For the most part, your employer has created ‘best practices’ to help you move through the morass of your workday as fluidly as you can. For the most part. But there is something…

Good News, Everyone!

How to Get Fired! goes on sale today. That’s right, today! As the world awakens, my influence will be spread into the collective consciousness, freeing up the time and minds of thousands, nay millions of potential employees! Productivity will plummet! Purchases of Xbox Live accounts will soar! Let the Pink Slip Revolution begin! (Bwa-ha-haaa!) But…