My employees called me about 7:30 and said the walls were chasing them down the hallway.

The best recruitment strategy is word of mouth from your current employees. We've been getting lots of referrals from our employees.

To many employees, Vista, the Windows update, exemplifies the company's struggles. When the project was conceived half a decade ago, it was envisioned as a breakthrough: an operating system that would transform the way users store and retrieve information. But the more revolutionary features have been dropped, and Vista will arrive three years after researcher Gartner Inc. originally predicted that it would ship. Worse yet, they say, nobody has been held accountable. 'People look around and say: 'What are those clowns doing?'' says Adam Barr, a program manager in the Windows group.

Be aware that as a business, you have an obligation to your employees and to other stake-holders, suppliers, customers - and some of those are legal obligations that you'll have to follow as well.

The class is designed for employees of businesses that sell fertilizer and pesticides. The training will provide increased knowledge in pest identification and management as well as basic horticultural training.

We'll just take it one day at a time.