posted 06-11-2001 01:23 AM               

* If the client is coming in on Monday, and the reports absolutely positively have to be on everyone's desk first thing Monday morning, any benefit to my morale conferred by you telling me to leave on Friday will be quickly undone by the dressing down I get on Monday.

posted 06-13-2001 03:09 AM               

* A five-dollar gift certificate to a local hoagie shop as a reward for good work is good. A raise is better.

* Do not pay me the bare minimum of attention in an attempt to look cool in front of the Office Chesty Blonde. If she hasn't slept with you yet, she's not going to.

I've also got a pointer for co-workers:

posted 06-15-2001 12:08 AM               

In honor of whom, perhaps, we should add:

posted 06-23-2001 10:18 AM               

* She said, He said, is NOT grounds for an exhaustive audit, and performance review.

* This ones cliche, but "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." Please, don't even touch the damn thing, ok?

* Believe it or not, there are people on your managers' staffs who have more experience than you. Just maybe patronizing them is a bad idea for morale.

Here is a more general one: demographics that include rural communities and trailer parks do not consist entirely of morons. If you open a discount store, and raise prices two months later, they WILL notice.
Oh, and try to think of who catches hell for these price changes, ok? We cashiers, managers, and cash office personal don't appreciate catching hell from the customer for your mismanagement. We end up working for the competetion.

OOO! If a worker has two jobs, works for you full-time, and someone else part time, don't assume the second job is less important. If they are on the clock at their second job, they are working for the second job. Not you. On your clock, do your work. On theirs, do theirs. Very simple.

posted 06-26-2001 10:50 PM               

There were at least two signs on the road leading up to the produce store, both ov which advertised fresh corn. Another sign outside the store called further attention to the store's cache of maize, and more signs inside read, in bold letters, "CORN."

Numerous people --numerous people -- would invariably come into the store and ask the same question, over and over:

posted 07-02-2001 05:28 PM               

*Do not, after repeatedly harping on your employees about their documentation skills, proceed to write "could not continue treatment as lunch arrived" in the medical record. Ever.

*Do not reply to an intelligent discussion concerning the details regarding the safety of delivering a specific treatment consisting of argueing the scientific rationales for precautions vs. contraindications for said treatment with "I just do what the doctor orders." Because you look like a moron. Actually, you look like a f*&#ing moron but whatever.

*Do not act like a pompous ass when an employee gives you 3.5 weeks notice (with the option of staying on in a per diem capacity) to take his/her dream job (as was stated rather clearly during the interview process). Especially considering that on the third day of work, your company was sold to the equivilent of the devil and you weren't informed of this possiblility during the 2 weeks of interviews and negotiations.

posted 08-29-2001 10:19 PM               

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Originally posted by slgorman:

*Do not, after repeatedly harping on your employees about their documentation skills, proceed to write "could not continue treatment as lunch arrived" in the medical record. Ever.

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Especially if you're not going to tell us whether lunch was any good. I mean, heck, if you're going that far, why not include a small rating of the take-out place for future reference?

posted 08-31-2001 06:11 PM               

I do, however, laugh out loud at your interpretation.

posted 01-23-2002 08:22 AM               

A) Double check a fellow worker's writing before it comes time to get our talent to say it while a tape's rolling.

B) Change or completely rewrite it if it is factually or grammatically incorrect, or if it's not a story we want to be promoting.

C) Let him know what I changed and why.

The first time I got to step C, no one had told him that I would be doing any of the above, so he responded to me in a "What the hell is this!?" fashion. For which I don't blame him a bit.

Naturally, I get to do all of this while I'm making live additions to the station's web site, and naturally, I don't get paid one extra bloody cent for suddenly acting in an all-but-unofficial supervisory capacity either.

posted 07-17-2002 11:49 PM            

Teachers in the employ of the Archdiocese of New York aren't given dental benefits because it was deemed unimportant. Oddly enough, all of the clergy members have it. Are holy teeth more prone to becoming holey teeth?

posted 07-21-2002 08:58 PM               

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Originally posted by Amy Rizzo:
Are holy teeth more prone to becoming holey teeth?

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LOL! OK, that's just darn funny! I should ask the teachers in the Philly Archdiocese how their teeth are doing. Of course, since Catholic school teachers down here barely earn enough to buy food, it might be moot point.