As an overview, this article is part of a series (Overview: The Best (Really Worst) College Student Excuses of All Time — Introduction to the Article Series), exploring what excuses college students have offered to explain an absence, a missed exam, a paper or project being late, etc. All of these excuses have been collected from this author’s contemporaries — professors and instructors at colleges and universities all across America. As such, it is a “crowdsourced” piece, and I owe them my gratitude for sharing their “best” excuses — which in reality means the “worst” — from their students over…
As an overview, this article is part of a series (Overview: The Best (Really Worst) College Student Excuses of All Time — Introduction to the Article Series), exploring what excuses college students have offered to explain an absence, a missed exam, a paper or project being late, etc. All of these excuses have been collected from this author’s contemporaries — professors and instructors at colleges and universities all across America. As such, it is a “crowdsourced” piece, and I owe them my gratitude for sharing their “best” excuses — which in reality means the “worst” — from their students over…
As an overview, this article is part of a series (Overview: The Best (Really Worst) College Student Excuses of All Time — Introduction to the Article Series), exploring what excuses college students have offered to explain an absence, a missed exam, a paper or project being late, etc. All of these excuses have been collected from this author’s contemporaries — professors and instructors at colleges and universities all across America. As such, it is a “crowdsourced” piece, and I owe them my gratitude for sharing their “best” excuses — which in reality means the “worst” — from their students over…
This is the introductory article to a series of articles exploring the “best” — well, read that as the worst — excuses offered by college students for missing classes, tests, paper due dates, etc. The basis of the articles has been “crowdsourced,” as college professors from around the country responded to an invitation on social media to share their most memorable excuses offered by their students over the course of their teaching careers. The article series has been compiled and authored by Dr. David C. Wyld, himself a business professor with over thirty years of classroom experience. While prior to…
Ah, the WFT! For fans of the Washington Football Team, the team’s identity has been both a source of pride and shame for many years. Yes, the “Redskins” name is full of history, including Super Bowl champions (although not so much lately…), and it even was the inspiration for what is without question the greatest and probably most recognizable team fight song in U.S. professional sports…
BUT — and it’s a BIG but — the Washington Redskins were the only team whose name literally meant persons of color! …
“A service failure is the opposite of customer satisfaction.”
All of us have experienced it at one time or another. If you’re lucky, it’s a rare occasion. On the other hand, if you feel like you’re an unlucky person and a dark cloud hovers over you, well, it might be a more frequent occurrence. However, whenever it happens, such an event can be upsetting, irritating and, most importantly in the big picture, a relationship killer!
What are we speaking of? The “event” that it’s referenced is a customer service failure. This is when the kitchen in the restaurant loses your…
COVID-19 has ushered in a new way of working. So what will the characteristics of the post-pandemic world of work look like?
Recently, I watched an in-depth story on CBS Sunday Morning, the title of which posed the question millions and millions of Americans (and exponentially more worldwide) desperately want to know the answer to: “Will we ever get back to the office?” The news report took a very in-depth look at the many pros and many cons of working from home. It also gave a platform to two tech company CEOs (Matt Cooper of Skillshare and Dev Ittycheria of…
It is one of the more mind-boggling aspects of travel today. No matter how one feels about gun issues, gun ownership, the Second Amendment and so forth, how can anyone in their right mind today end-up trying to take a gun on a plane? Well, even with airline travel being down significantly due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it is happening more frequently — much more frequently in fact — today. …
We tend to think of business history as being made decades in the past. After all, it is history. We think of the big mega-transforming events — key inventions like electricity, the Model T, and even the iPhone — as having been in the increasingly distant past. And yet, right now, all of us are living through what will likely be regarded as one of the most transformative and important eras in the history of business and commerce. This is because retailing, not just in the United States, but all over the world, is rapidly changing. The brick and mortar…
It is a staple of modern life that watching your favorite show, catching up on the day’s news, or taking in the “big game” means making a trade-off. In a world where we can watch almost anything ever made on demand somewhere in the streaming universe, if we watch something live, that means one thing: Commercials. And while kids who are used to watching their favorite movies on Disney+ or their favorite cartoons on Netflix or Amazon may scream in horror, “MOM! DAD! Why is the show stopping?,” …
David Wyld (dwyld@selu.edu) is a Professor of Strategic Management at Southeastern Louisiana University. He is a noted business consultant and writer.