IT'S A NEW YEAR, but the people who populate business haven't changed. As proof, here's another edition of Weird Business News. That Must Have Hurt Award to an unnamed major metropolitan newspaper in Houston. In a listing of Christmas gifts, the writer touted a pants-pressing device.
Device lets owner insert pants and walk away.
Nyuk, nyuk, nyuk. The Life Vest Not Included Award to La Reserve at the Omni Houston Hotel, which last November staged a theme dinner that copied the meal served on the Titanic just before the ship had an unfortunate meeting with an Ocean on the Rocks. Harrah's operates use 120 million feet of toilet paper a year. Par for the course The Surprise, Surprise Award to Accountemps, the temporary staffing service for accounting personnel. The Name That Building Award to the unnamed bellman at Harrah's Las Vegas hotel, as reported by Travel Weekly, a trade magazine.