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more about #thewaywelivenow more comments → dreamadream: Everyone should leave the owner alone. The email was sent to his employees and not meant for the world. The backlash is insane, it should all be direc... more » BaconForTheSoul: I feel like a lot of you are acting like children. This is a job, he is a boss. As he said, you don't have to work there. People bitching about basic... more » a.nzibo: Seems like much ado about nothing. Never gotten a bollocking at a job where they require you to do something asinine? Most department stores collect e... more » SpyMagician: Folks, this all makes me really miss Florent, Shopsins and other old school places that had quirky owners who still cared for their patrons and their... more » Constantine: Telling the waitstaff that they're not collecting enough e-mail addresses is like yelling at the cooks for not improving the website's search-engine r... more » CODiva: Clearly there are more effective ways to communicate with your staff, but few could be more entertaining than this --- except if you happen to work fo... more » NanArgea: Hey - this guy is an ass - I get it. But at least he is honest, and doesn't tell you one thing and do another. He wants emails - great. You want a nic... more » schlesinger10: would you like my resume as an attachment or in the body in the of the email more » iabdai: Maybe he has a point, and wants them to do what he asks of them, but Vadim, you do not know how to go about it. There is a decent way to speak to peop... more » ligmasagbatch: Poor 13 year old kid. more » missdelite: "Paradou owner Vadim Ponorovsky just called us in a huff because he says that after Gawker and other blogs published an angry e-mail he fired off to e... more » lobstr: All it takes is to send this guy's email address to a Scientology org saying he's interested in some orientation materials, and he'll be deluged with ... more » alyssa001: It's funny to me that Gawker only posts the comments that they agree with. I've sent in my comments and for some reason they didn't get added... hmmm.... more » blackdogcomments: Vadim, Email marketing like the kind you're pursuing is kinda (super) dated. And it might make sense for your waiters to *not bother* customers for ... more » James Pyles: Something tells me that attendance at Paradou is about to take a turn for the worst. Someone should fire Vadim. more » -
#hellskitchen
New York Restaurant Owners Turn Evil
Times are tough, and people are sat at home chewing bellybutton fluff instead of eating out or ordering in. What are restaurant owners doing? Some are not paying staff, and others are sending abusive emails calling them "fucking lazy motherfuckers."
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#valleyspeak
Twitter's New Prompt: A Linguist Weighs In
Twitter today announced it will prompt users to post by asking "What's happening?" rather than the old "What are you doing?" We asked a prominent linguist if this means anything. Turns out it does: Twitterers are no longer such loners. More » -
#thewaywelivenow
Google Search Box Suggestions Allow Us to Peer into the Internet's Dark, Disturbing Id
There are things you don't tell your husband. There are things you don't tell your therapist. But virtually everything can go into Google's search box — for Google to re-broadcast to the world, via its "suggestion" feature. More » -
#thehelp
But Where Will the Butler Live?
People outside New York all used to live in giant mansions with Jacuzzis and closets the size of Luxembourg. Now they have to give these things up. The greatest tragedy? Buyers "are in danger of being underwhelmed." More » -
#disasters
Cornell Employees' Email Blunder from Hell
A tech consultant at Cornell University somehow CCed the entire campus emails to his mistress, a Cornell staffer and fellow married person. The naughty man is in no position to be "SPANKING that FINE ASS of yours" now! More » -
#dining
On Yelp, Every Restaurant is Very Special
Reviewers on Yelp aren't very discerning: They award four or five stars 69 percent of the time (see chart). The local ratings website could combat this by grading on the curve, but would rather force you to click around. More » -
#endtimes
Things Still Unimaginably Terrible In Detroit
The City of Detroit just wanted to hand out 5,000 applications for housing and bill payment aid to those at risk of homelessness, so of course chaos and violence erupted. More » -
#crime
Meet the Postal Worker Who Stole Your Netflix DVDs
Wondering why that one Lost DVD never arrived? If you live in New England, blame the Netflix Nabber. Myles Weathers pinched more than 3,000 DVDs from the mail distribution center where he worked. He faces five years in prison. More » -
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#trends
Everyone In America Flying to Argentina To Sleep With Mistresses
The Wall Street Journal's award-worthy "this is what former rich people are up to" coverage continues today with a story on how so many Americans are dropping everything to "hike the Appalachian Trail." More » -
#dining
The New Restaurant Bribery
The Web was supposed to disintermediate business, replacing corruptible middlemen with accurate information fed directly to consumers. But judging from the restaurant industry's experience, it may have just made corruption more widespread and louche. Just look at this receipt: More » -
#socialnetworks
Learn to decode subtle Facebook brags, and become annoyed with your "friends" all over again.
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#niceandboring
Why Is Everyone on Twitter So Maddeningly Positive?
It's so hard to start a good fight on Twitter. Praise someone effusively, it gets "re-tweeted" endlessly, while nice juicy feuds get smothered in the crib. Every Twitter user is president of his own fraternity. How stale! More » -
#facebook
Facebook, Twitter Make You Easy Prey
Sigh. Here we thought Facebook, Twitter and all those silly little websites were making our lives easier. Not so! More » -
#theolds
Twitter: A Sad Replacement for Your Aging Social Life
Young people are indifferent to Twitter, a hot topic the New York Times is mulling today. But no one's really figured out why. Our theory: Young people have lives, and Twitter is for creaking shut-ins. More » -
#health
Internet Your Way Out of Depression
In Britain, thedeath panelNHS commonly makes you wait a year to see a shrink, so some people just chat with therapists over instant messenger. Go figure: It actually works. So what about Tumblr, and so forth? More » -
#fashion
The Terrible Ingenuity of 'Winker' Jeans (An Introduction)
There's something admirable about this disturbingly awesome invention for the heartland, these Winkers™ pants: the fatter you get, the better they work. All of America, from coast to chubby coast, will soon need this clever thing, no? More » -
#meltdowns
Watch Schlubby Dennis Kneale Cry, Over a Blackberry
Dennis Kneale is in a purportedly bitter, cursing feud his internet critics. Just wait until the CNBC anchor's blogger enemies revisit this video of Kneale, pre-TV-makeover, crying like a baby because he's without a BlackBerry. More » -
#trendwatch
The Workaholic Google Couple That Will Crush Your Spirit
We learn this week in Vogue that Google executive Marissa Mayer and her husband fiancé are insanely addicted to work. Like Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner before them, their manic overachieving can and will put you to shame. More » -
#facebook
Facebook Your Party, Start a Street War
Facebook is quite powerful at lubricating relationships between acquaintances. Too powerful, sometimes: the social network turned an English garden party into a riot requiring a small police army to put down. More » -
#tweed
L.A. Weed Dealer Finally Finds a Use for Twitter
California won't let the gays marry but it does let people micro-blog (medical) drug deals. Meet former Northwestern J-school student Dann Halem, who is building an online business selling weed on Twitter. How is this possible you ask? More »
