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A note to any employers out there considering legal action against former employees:  before you send a letter threatening to sue your former employees for allegedly possessing company information that is only accessible to current employees, which they should have given back when they left the company, you should probably make sure that they are, in fact, former employees.  When 2 minutes of research reveals that they are actually current employees whose contracts do not expire until September, and you have taken no action to fire them, it makes it awfully easy to rebut your allegation.

This helpful tip brought to you by the “No Shit, Sherlock” department of Lawyer & Counsel, LLP.

Do you all read Yelp?  It’s an online site for user reviews of local restaurants (and stores and bars and clubs, too.)  Somehow I have gotten on Yelp’s email list.  Every week they send out some “thematic” email- favorite Chinese restaurants, best places to watch the Cubs home opener, etc. 

Today’s list is entitled “Yelp Loves Locals.”  “Hm,” I think, as I click to open it.  “Must be like a list of local haunts for different neighborhoods.  Could be worth checking out.”

The list of places recommended in this email, in order:

• H&M
• Filene’s Basement
• Gap
• Urban Outfitters
• Chili’s
• P.F. Chang’s
• McDonalds (“kids in the know call it Ronalds.”  Um, okay.)
• The Cheesecake Factory
• Blockbuster
• Target
• CPK
• Domino’s

I’m thinking: Dude, Yelp, if I wanted a recommendation for freaking Chili’s I’d ask my cousin in the suburbs.  “Kids in the know call it Ronalds?”  What the hell?

Then it hits me:  the date on the top is April 1.  This is not for real. I just totally fell hook, line, and sinker for an April Fool. And I came within about 30 seconds of posting a semi-ranty email about Yelp’s ridiculousness.  I am awesome.