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Morning meetings, especially long ones, throw the rest of the day under the bus. Playing catch-up isn’t easy for the employees, and it is frustrating to your clients.
I realize there isn’t probably a perfect time to have a meeting, but there are definitely times that aren’t good to have them. Thus, the eternal question of “when?”
So, we play catch-up and everyone’s stress level or anxiety goes up.
#SMH
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Our neighbors from the northern land!
Improve your driving we shall command.
Your lack of skill comes as no surprise,
Violate the laws and you won’t be free!
From the border you come,
O Canada, you speed on the freeway.
God you’re rude and pushy too!
O Canada, we won’t stand to let you speed.
O Canada, we won’t let you speed for free.
A little ode for our Canadian neighbors, sung to the tune of their national anthem. If you live in the upper left corner of the United States, you can totally relate to this little ditty. Shoot, if you live anywhere within reach of the Canadian border, you can probably relate. Am I wrong?
Total generalization here, but the general consensus (or commonly held stereotype) is that Canadians are generally a docile and friendly people. If you are actually IN Canada, I have found this to be true for the most part. They are nice people. However, in my experience, the are not great drivers.
Once they cross that border in the US, that stereotype goes away and another becomes the reality. They apparently forget all rules of the road and all manners while shopping. If you live within 200 miles of the border in Washington, this is a well known fact.
Reality is that Canadians are rude and self-absorbed. Two areas this is blatantly obvious: driving and shopping. This is displayed in driving because they speed, weave in and out of traffic, cut people off, tailgate, and otherwise display poor behavior with abandon because there is apparently no consequence for it, even when they get pulled over. The other area is shopping. The clog up our stores (especially close to the border) and purchase weird amounts of milk and gas (can we thank socialism and price controls for that?). They are pushy. They are usually very loud. They sometimes appear to not even understand the purchasing process…I mean, really?
So, how about we try this? Shop online and we’ll ship it too you. We want your money, but we can do without the bad driving and invasion of our stores every time you have a holiday in the land of maple syrup and Mounties.
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The downfall of society is coming (well, some would argue it is already here).
Dramatic much? No, I don’t think so.
Language is important. Unfortunately, people are lazy and that translates to poor language skills, as well as a plethora of other bad habits. So, what is the deal with the lack of punctuation in nearly every social media platform? Yes, the option to punctuate is available but it seems fewer and fewer people are choosing to do so. Maybe we can blame it on Twitter – 140 characters is rather limiting and why waste it on punctuation? I get it, but at the same time it isn’t cool.
Grandmothers and small children are being eaten, for the love of everything holy! Some classic examples of why punctuation is important:
“Let’s eat grandma!” vs. “Let’s eat, grandma!”
“We just ate Timmy.” vs. “We just ate, Timmy.”
Oh, and while we’re at it, how about we throw in some capitalization as well?
Anyway, I read an article not long ago that said if I use punctuation in text messages, like a period at the end of the sentence, that I am angry. WTH? Who made up these stupid rules? That’s a pretty big ASSumption to make when I am just using the rules of writing because I don’t want to look like an uneducated dumbsh*t. Got me?
its the little things people and little things matter we ignore the little things and i just dont think were going to recover from this catastrophe see what i mean its annoying isnt it dont make up rules just cuz youre freaking lazy to write properly
Punctuate. Communicate properly.
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About that trip where I slept on the ground, in a tent, in a sleeping bag…
I also had to set up the tent in the dark, alone.
OK, so growing up, we were always setting up camping for family camping trips in the dark. It became a joke later as us kids got older, but all of us hated it growing up. And, it was always dad’s fault because he was always late getting home, which meant late leaving, which meant late arriving, which meant setting up in the dark.
So, as an adult out on my own, I always made it a point to leave early enough so as to not have to set up camp in the dark. I was pretty successful at getting it done! So much for being like my dad, right?
Well, I now know why dad was always late. His job – or in our case, our existence. He was a business owner and did everything. As the business grew, so did the work and the employees and everything else he was responsible for. So, of course he was always late.
Dad, I now understand.
But, I still hate setting up camp in the dark. Period.
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I recently attended a mini family reunion on the other side of the state. It was a quick one, just over a weekend so two nights was all I was staying. I was also going alone, kids were busy and wife had to work, so I didn’t need to take the usual stuff. I wanted to travel light and quickly.
So, I threw a few camping type supplies into the car and some clothes, and off I went. Tent, sleeping bag, clothes, food.
Well, I regretted “go light” as soon as I climbed into the tent to sleep. I didn’t include the usual stuff like a sleeping pad or an air mattress, like I would have if someone else was along with me. What was I thinking?
My body doesn’t handle the same things it could when I was younger. Apparently my brain thinks I am still young enough to do this crap, my body obviously let me know that wasn’t the case. Comfort? Yeah, not so much. Sleeping on the ground and having an old body (or at least feeling old) just doesn’t add up to much sleep.
Lesson learned? Take the comfortable stuff. It isn’t over-rated.
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Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep…
Snooze.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep…
Snooze.
Beep, beep, beep, beep, beep…
OK, fine. Shut up already. I’m up…
Every stupid day of my life (or at least it seems that way).
Alarm clocks are the worst invention ever. OK, maybe not the worst because getting to work on time is a must, so let’s just say they’re the second worst.
Do I really need this job? I could get rid of the alarm clock…
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So, apparently, there are people out there with nothing better.
Nothing better to do than engage you in an effort to try and pick a fight on the internet.
I believe they call them “trolls” these days.
Obviously, you can’t avoid them completely, especially if you have an opinion and express it. I know we all have one now and again, and we express them knowing full well that you may be entangled in an argument that will go nowhere but in circles. Yeah, that’s fun…just like a ferris wheel only dumber.
I especially love those kind of trolls that seek you out and ask you questions just so they can try to “get you”. Not gonna do it. Crawl back under your bridge or rock, into your hole, walk back down into your dark and dank basement (we all know where you are, really).
Please, continue to live out your existence lonely and in your underpants.
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There are lots of people out there these days that say one thing and do another. We would like to think that “our word is our bond” but that isn’t really how it works any longer. “The handshake” used to be all you needed, now it means almost nothing.
“Your actions speak so loudly that I can’t hear what you are saying.”
You say you will do this. You do that.
You offer a service. I pay for that service. You don’t provide said service.
There is nothing more irritating than people who don’t do what they say they will do.
Just gonna leave this right here…
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Rocks are great for mountains and landscaping.
Rocks are not good when you are digging a hole or a trench.
Rocks are not good when they are loose on a roadway and flip up to chip your window.
Rocks are not good when they are in your shoe.
Rocks are not good when they somehow end up in your food.
Rocks are not good when you get hit in the head – whether it was thrown or falling from a mountain.
Rocks are not good when you are sleeping on the ground and they are under you.
Rocks are dumb when you inscribe, paint, or write a message on them.
So, really, other than the first two things what are rocks good for?
Piss and Moan 