Great news monkeys!
We’ve secured some private financing to move this magazine to a self-hosted URL. From now on, no new articles will be posted here.
All new content will be posted over at http://40hourmonkey.com
In addition to being a more power and more secure site, we will have room for some of our readers and sponsors to advertise allowing 40 Hour Monkey to actually pay for itself.
Thank you for all of the support. See you at the new property.
TGIF fellow 40-hour monkeys.
The weekend is here and for the next two days, you are your own monkey. Make the best of it.
I leave you with a comic one of our loyal readers left with us. Enjoy.
And be sure to check in with us Monday morning — as you sit down in your cramped cube — for a new Survey Monday.
While the average 40-hour monkey has seen his or her home value drop in the past 12 months, those of you in Phoenix Arizona may have more reason to cry uncontrollably.
August home price data was released and the great citizens of Phoenix Arizona have been hardest hit.
According to CNN.com:
The hardest hit of all 20 cities on a year-over-year basis was Phoenix, where prices plummeted 30.7% during the past 12 months.
“Now we’re paying the price,” said Joan Dodd, 36-year Phoenix real estate veteran.
If you are a complete waste of a labor monkey unless your day starts with a cup of coffee, you aren’t alone. We consume an estimated 500 billion cups of the stuff world-wide every year.
The trouble is, coffee is one of those labor-intensive commodities because the bright-red cherries that will later be roasted and slapped with a high-end label and price tag, are usually picked by hand — the hand of men, women and unfortunately children — in exchange for only a few dollars a day.
What a relief it is to finally realize where you stand in society.
No more pretending that we are something we are not.
We here at 40-hour monkey are not mistaken any longer and that’s ok. In fact, it’s a good thing.
We are monkeys in the labor force. Labor monkeys make the world go ’round.
Here we go.
