Tag: office work
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Back to the Grindstone
Hoo-boy, I am beat! A whole day of regulating and licensing Cheeseheads sure does wear me out! My Darling B confirms that feeling like a well-wrung dish rag after laboring mightily all day for the Great State of Wisconsin is pretty common, and I’d better get used to it. Well, hoe-kay! If I gotta, then… Read.
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Seven Habits
I went back to the daily grind Thursday morning after a relatively relaxed day at a management seminar on Wednesday. This once-a-month series is broken up so that each day-long session covers some important aspect of managing a work place. Yesterday’s subject: Time management, something I could always use help with. Even if I learned… Read.
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role play
After two days away from the office to attend a seminar that will give me the managerial toolbox I need to become a better supervisor, it’s back to the grindstone for one more day, huzzah! The seminar really was very good, in that I not only learned about things that will help me out, but… Read.
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a tall tale
We took positions at our flip charts and prepared for the first round of participatory exercises at this morning’s leadership seminar. “To let you know when it’s time to change positions, I will make a loud noise,” our instructor, Mary Kate, advised us. Chuckles all around the room. She grinned at us. “It will be… Read.
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looks are deceiving
This would probably fall under the heading of stuff I shouldn’t write about, but the longer I thought it over the more important I believed it was to share this: Before you call up your banker to bitch him out because you suspect last month’s interest payment on your loan was calculated wrong, get out… Read.
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jealousy
My Darling B had the foresight several months ago to ask for today off from work, apparently knowing way back then that spring weather would have come by now, the snow would all be gone and she could begin to plant her garden. Lucky girl gets to spend the day starting seedlings (poking seeds into… Read.
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