Water cooler: Put your money where your house is

Put your money where your house is

By Times Staff
Published July 1, 2007

Put your money where your house is

Independents Week starts today, and you don't have to wear red, white and blue to celebrate. The Tampa Independent Business Alliance and similar groups across the country are encouraging consumers to shop at locally owned businesses. Many will offer raffle prizes throughout the month to shoppers. For a list of TIBA members, visit www.tibatampa.org.

The firm won't miss that pen ... will it?

That trail of Post-its looks sort of incriminating: Nearly one-fifth of workers admit to stealing office supplies from their employers, and about one-fifth of those thieves said they felt guilty afterward.

That's according to Spherion Corp., a staffing and recruiting company based in Fort Lauderdale.

Reasons most frequently cited: A) I needed them. B) My boss said it was okay. C) The company will never miss them.

A fourth answer, I am silently rebelling against a boss whom I loathe, wasn't an option. But we bet that's what some people who checked "Other" were thinking.

Find out what's going on in town

TampaOptions.com keeps the hip connected to what's happening in the bay area. Now it's trying to appeal to businesses, too, by selling subscriptions to a new Web feed that keeps track of local social and business events. Corporate and individual subscribers can link their Web sites, intranets or PCs to the feed for $400 a month. TampaOptions is promoting the Web feed as a tool to keep sales staffers abreast of business opportunities, attract visitors to the company Web site and build morale by helping employees feel connected with the community.

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