Capital One Card Lab.. No thehappycorp card yet?

We found ourselves the target of many ads for Capital One’s Card Lab. It’s a website that is basically a CafePress or Spread Shirt for Your Credit Card, with all the fixin’s, except one. They promise in all their ads that you can upload a photo to live on your card, however upon further examination, they haven’t launched that feature yet. Sad.  Another sad thing, is how big they want their capital one logo to live over your artwork.  We can’t have it all. But maybe someday..

thehappycorp welcomes new office manager, Lindsey Green

If by some act of God you don't know that moving takes a lot of work, we're here to tell you it does, especially if you're going to move a company. It's no coincidence then, that our new office manager, Lindsey Green, sits a bit higher than the rest of us. Literally, her chair is a lot taller. She has to oversee things, get a lay of the land, and figure out how to move the guts of one space into the shell of another. That's her MO.

Once we're settled into our new house Lindsey will be in charge of order and operation at thehappycorp (maybe even rumor control!). She's only been here for a week and already the reigns are tightening. Mysterious orange crates are popping up all over the office and it's only a matter of time before Lindsey tells us to start packing.

Lindsey tried to regale us with stories of going to school at London Metropolitan and Arizona State University.

“Then I transfered to Hunter College, but I actually finished at the School of Visual Arts…”

We weren't really paying attention until she told us her dad used to be the CEO of Smitty's. If you lived out West about 12-15 years ago you know that's amazing, and that now thehappycorp's under the eyes of a woman with taskmaster in her blood.

Rishi Desai, new LVHRD Business Production intern

Today Rishi said, “So how come all the other new hires got new hire posts? Where's my new hire post?”

To which Dave Franzese replied, “Son, when we started here we didn't get no new hire posts! I had to write my new hire post on the internet with a ballpoint pen uphill both ways in the snow.”

But we like Rishi, and he only had to ask, so, here goes:

When Rishi started at thehappycorp a couple weeks ago he had a broken face, just like the song. He still has a broken face, but it's less puffy now: he made us feel the fracture under his right eye, a little boney gap.

“My last night in Lima I stayed up all night drinking and decided to go out for the good waves when the sun came up,” said Rishi. It was bad. My board came up underneath me into my cheek. I was in bed two weeks after that, my whole face in a cast”

We imagine the immobility was the worst part for Rishi. He's been to South America four times and almost all the corners of the world, including Antarctica.

He's the founder and director of the Sustainable Design Review, an internationally recognized sustainability competition for Parsons students, where Rishi is a Design & Management degree candidate at the School of Design.

Rishi has more ideas for LVHRD than he can hold in his hands. He's constantly spreading out reams of paper in front of us, pointing at keynotes, sticking graphs on the bulletin board, reading at least two newspapers at once. Guy means business.

Today he came in with a streamlined haircut because, oh–wait for it–he's training for a triathlon. That's right. Go see Transformers, take a nap, and when you wake up Rishi will have spun the time you spent doing those things into golden straw with which he will buy your life purpose.