Business Lessons 101: Lesson 1

Business Lessons 101: Lesson One

I don’t consider myself a business man.

I don’t consider myself an entrepreneur.

I consider myself a career college student that has some common sense, and a slightly twisted sense of humor.

Why write a blog about business then? Because to be honest with you I have nothing else to blog about today, so I am going to teach everyone a lesson in business. It is a funny and interesting lesson to learn.

To illustrate this lesson we are going to use two companies Spacely Space Sprockets and Cogswell Cogs.

Spacely Space Sprockets is a company run by a very bad man. He lies to his employees, tries to black mail former secretaries with dirty pictures, and overall is just an honest to goodness dipshit. After going out of business for a short time Spacely brings back his company and tries to drum up some attention.

Meanwhile on the other side of town Cogswell Cogs is run by an attractive, honest, and hard working man. He doesn’t have employees he has co-shareholders and he tries to do what he can to help them live their dreams. Cogswell makes a mistake every once and awhile but overall is a pretty good dude.

Spacely in his attempts to re-launch his company decides to start advertising a website that he doesn’t own. Also during this time period he repeatedly talks bad about Cogswell attempting to get Cogswell to pay attention him. Cogswell takes the high road and continues to ignore Spacely. However he does notice the website that Spacely is advertising and checks it out only to find that Spacely doesn’t own the website.

As a businessman and as someone that has been personally attacked by Spacely time and time again what should Cogswell do?

a) Remind Spacely to register the url he is advertising
b) Buy the URL and sell it at triple the price back to Spacely
c) Buy the URL and link it to geriatric, gay male porn.

Cogswell being a man with a good sense of humor takes option number three. So for over a month’s time Spacely advertises geriatric, gay male porn without his knowledge. Until finally someone alerts him to it and he hastily changes his advertisements with a shitty photoshop job. (see circled area)
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Once again Cogswell makes Spacely look rather stupid and laughs at how dumb Spacely is. The good guys win yet again!

The Moral of the Story aka Lesson 1: Make sure you have what you advertise or you could end up being involved in geriatric gay porn.