Sendin’ out the love

I would like to say thank you to Aunt Shelly, who performed her civic duty the past week and a half or so and served as a juror during a gruesome and horrendous trial. We thought about you the whole time, and prayed, and hoped you were doing okay. There are not many people who have the strength to go through something like that, and I have the deepest admiration and respect for you. Welcome home…we love you.

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Clutz

Take away my diamonds, my pearls, my gold and my silver. Banish me to the ugly world of no jewelry. I don’t deserve to wear pretty things.

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Human Resources

What do you do when you put a troublesome employee through two very good (and very expensive) customer training courses, coaching and guiding along the way, and the end result is that the only thing the employee gains from said training is the conviction that she really is great at her job? When, really, she’s quite horrible at it. And not only is she incapable of seeing that (much less changing her attitude about it), but now she has an inflated sense of worth and contribution.

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