I’ll Be Back

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Subscribing is a great way to avoid being asked to come in on SaturdayDon’t worry everyone, I am still alive.  I am at the end of a crazy streak at work where I will be working 14 days in a row.  No, [...]

The Stupidity of the Announced Corporate Visit

At work today we learned that the president of our company and all of the main buyers will be traveling to our store on Friday. Just great. Now I will be putting in a 16 hour day tomorrow. In my company, anytime that there is a visit scheduled, the store is expected [...]

Solving the Weekend Blogging Blues

By far, the weekends are my slowest traffic days.  It is a up hill battle to average 40 percent of the visitors I receive during the week.  Since I am most definitely an extrovert (feed of the energy of others), knowing that very view people are visiting my blog lowers my enthusiasm for blogging.  Very [...]

The Lost Art of Saying Thank You

Today at work I heard something that I had not heard in a long time and that made me stop dead in my tracks. One of my bosses actually thanked me for my efforts. Why was I floored with a simple thank you? Quite simply, it had probably been several months before [...]

Blog Contest Mania

If you check out as many blogs as I do, you have surely run across countless contests. Before today, I have ignored these contests and diverted my attention to the next post. When I came across TheGermz blog today and read about his contest and how easy it would be to enter, I [...]

Too many meetings!!!

Today at work, we were subjected to SIX different meetings. These meetings took up a grand total of 3 1/2 hours or 43.75% of our work day. What a waste of a day!! The worst part is that all of these meetings were pretty much pointless and could have been summarized in [...]