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OK, so I like don’t park in the same place every day.
Oh, wait, I do! My mistake. That’s my spot! Get your jalopy outta my spot!
So why the hell are you parking in my spot? Just because you got here a fraction of a second before me? Yeah, ok, like I don’t let the air out of tires every day either…
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Driving down the highway, perhaps over the posted limit, but minding my own business and staying my own lane when out of the blue there is a huge THWACK!! on the windshield.
You guessed it, a flying object made of stone but probably only the size of a peanut.
No damage this time, but is certainly gets your attention and most definitely riles you up. Rocks on the windshield, or anywhere on the car for that matter, are most irritating.
I commute millions of miles, it seems, and I hate it when that tiny little rock causes a chip in the window. Time and cold weather mean at some point the window is getting replaced. Who has time for that? Who can afford that? I suppose that is why you see cracked windshields everywhere…
Damn little rock.
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I am little overwhelmed at the moment.
Can I just take the day off from anything that has a major decision involved? Can I just take the day off from responsibility?
Anyone have any suggestions for getting away from it all?
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I am not totally sure what that means, but I do know it means whatever I was trying to do on the internet isn’t working, and it is frustrating as hell.
“Page not found.”
“We’ve encountered a problem. Try again.”
“HTTP server not found.”
It all means that whatever is trying to be done ain’t working and everything comes to a grinding halt.
Ugh, tech problems are the worst!
Anyone else have a “favorite” that short circuits their day?
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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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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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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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Passable roads are nice. Summer is nice. So do we have to ruin one to make the other possible?
Summer is apparently the only time road construction can get done. Added to that, it also can only be done during the day and not at night, which is weird considering we have this cool technology called “lights”. So, with technology available to do construction at night while traffic volumes are reduced significantly, why are we still doing it during the day while traffic volume is at it’s highest?
I suppose someone (or maybe just LIFE in general) is out there conspiring against me and all the other people that have to get somewhere…
So, you know that saying that goes something like, “Only the best intentions”? Uh huh…
Actually, intentions are only that, intentions. Qualifying them as “best” means that those intention probably fell short. Really, if you think about it, anytime anyone uses the word “intend” they are actually admitting that they failed. They didn’t hit the mark. So when someone says they only had “the best intentions in mind” then they are admitting that their best didn’t come out and the best is still in their head.
So, I have to admit…I have the best intentions to get a post out earlier today. Actually, that isn’t the truth either, I actually intended to write a post and then schedule it so it would post this morning but it didn’t happen. Life and work have hit an intersection and my best intentions didn’t get ahead of them. As I write this, late in the day I have intentions of writing tomorrow’s post too. Well, intend to make that happen…
Man, I hate intentions.
#smh
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You know what really sucks? Those all company meeting!
“Hey, even though we’ve worked together for years, let’s do an ice breaker.”
“Thanks for being here today. I am going to show you a PowerPoint about company/organization policies. This is our annual reminder and the same PowerPoint you have seen the last six years, but we’re gonna do it again anyway.”
“So, wasn’t that great? Thanks for being patient with that as we covered exactly the same things we covered last year, and the year before that, and the year before that.”
“Moving on, we really need you people to buy into what we’re doing here at our organization, so let’s sit around and brainstorm ideas for goals. Let’s write those goals on these giant post-it notes on the walls. Then let’s go around and place these colored dots next to the ones we thing are most relevant. Then we’re gonna rank the ones that are most relevant.”
“Now we’re gonna take those goals we came up with and in your teams please write some S.M.A.R.T. goals that your team can work on over the next year.”
“Finally, we are gonna post these goals in some really obvious spot where we can all see them and remind ourselves about why we do what we do and what we’re working towards.”
Then we all leave the room, looking at each other like we all just went through a painful root canal. We find the posted goals on the wall the next week and promptly forget they are there and ignore them for the rest of the year.
The life cycle of the dreaded ALL company meeting.
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