Your title does not mean that much to me…

Did you ever see the commercial where the boss says, ‘I didn’t get here by being smart!” I always found the commercial funny, in a “funny because it is true”, kind of way.  At what point do you lose the edge and smarts that got you to the top or helped you become the owner of your own business?  I am perplexed by owners that have no people skills, no management skills and no common sense. Did they never have it or was it lost somewhere along the way to the top? 

A head’s up to the owners of the world, just because you are the owner does not make you smarter than your employees, they may know a thing or two, isn’t that why you hired them in the first place.  Like most situations and with most people boss or not; it is inappropriate to ask someone a question to immediately cut them off and give thoughts on the subject or the answer that you think it should be. It is inappropriate and it is rude, a quality that a lot of bosses have inherited.

To have a happy work place show your employees respect and they will respect you back.  (hopefully)

If your employee has done something wrong, talk to them, let them know that they have messed up. Don’t just start taking responsibilities away from them.

Stop believing and treating employees like you are better than them and smarter than them, it makes employees angry and does not help productivity. 

Stop and listen to your employees once in a while they may teach you a thing or two and when they do, don’t get angry because they know something you don’t, appreciate that you are still able to learn things.

 

 

What did I do….

It is official, I am/we are house hunting. Not only are we looking for a new house, but we are looking for a new neighborhood.  Am I ready to give up living this close to Old Town Scottsdale?! Is it wrong that I want to find a house that is close to a few bars.  I am growing up but I still want to be able to go out whenever I want and go to places that are fun and not “old”.

Did I mention that while house hunting, I am also in the beginning stages of planning a wedding, oh ya and summer school.  This will be easy, right?

It will be as long as everything goes the exact way I plan.  HA!

It is time to buckle down, house hunt, study, and plan a little at a time.

Bring it on senior year, new houses and wedding. I am ready for the challenge.  I vow to be fun and pleasant the entire time.  Even if I have to put Three Olives out of busines

Today is the Great American Grump Out day.

The Great American Grump Out is today. All Americans are asked to go 24 hours without being grumpy, crabby, or rude. So sour pusses, suck it up!

If I didn’t read this definition first and only talked to people, I would have thought it meant to be super grumpy, bitchy and rude but no. These people refuse to recognize what I can only assume will soon become a national holiday. These people want to be ridicuously hard to deal with, you know the type, they start walking your way, you try and look busy so you don’t get the rath. Listen jerks, no one cares why you are grumpy, being rude or just a shitty person in general NO ONE. So please get off your high horse of shitty attitudes.

In honor of not being grumpy, crabby or rude today I am going to carry around a big stick, if you choose not to participate in this great holiday I will poke you with my stick. *Note: the stick is now offically being called poking stick.

I am sure you are saying to yourself, this chick is rude, grumpy and crabby because of this post and where does she get off writing this.  I assure you none of my personality’s moods today have fallen into either of those categories. I will nicely poke you with my poking stick and I will nicely and politley let you know why i did so.

So inconclusion, for one friggin day can you please stop being grumpy, crabby and rude because again, no one cares that much about why your in these moods.

Don’t forget today is also International Respect for Chickens Day so get out there and show respect to all those chickens who have sacrificed their lives for us to eat delicious chicken wingys and other chicken cuts. Except chicken bologna and chicken sausage thats just gross!

Drunk Diva…

A whole lot of UGH!!!

Recycling
Internet
Stupidity
Rudeness/arrogance
Thinking your time is more important than someone else’s (mostly in a business aspect.)
What do all these things have in common, they are things that I find super annoying.
Recycling: DO IT!! How is it that hard to get off your fat ass and walk 10 extra feet to the bin that is marked recycling. Get off your high horse, you are not too good to recycle. Actually, if you don’t recycle you are a douche. It helps the planet, it helps your future, it helps the future of the children. Stop being too lazy to but the plastic bottle or any other recyclables in recycling bin.

Internet: I don’t know if you knew this but the internet can now be found on computers and not just certain computers all computers. If you have cable, DSL or even, god forbid, a land line at your house or place of business you too can access the internet. Yay, 2011!
If you have to type in a domain name into a browser to access a database, email, movies or whatever it is your looking to do, YOUR ON THE INTERNET. Just because it is an icon saved to your desktop, does NOT mean that you can only access it from that computer, you just need to be smart cleaver enough to know the domain name and type it into any browser that you wish, on any damn computer you wish. I should not have to constantly remind you how to access the internet. Also I am not doing voodoo when I access my work email from my phone, personal laptop or any other computer for that matter. It’s on the internet the world wide web if you will.

Stupidity/spewing your stupidity: Do I really need to say more. Take that extra two f-ing minutes to think before you speak, everyone will appreciate your effort and maybe, just maybe you won’t look like such a jackass.  I am not promising you anything though, you are the ones that continue to stupid speak, phrase after bloody phrase.  Also, why do you think it is ok to speak as much as you do about nothing of any importance to anyone.  Why do you think any one cares besides yourself?!?!

Rudeness/arrogance/”calling the kettle black, pot”: In some instances are one in the same but not always. However, how is it that you are so arrogant that you think it is ok to do the exact thing that you are complaining about but don’t realize that you are doing it.  Are you so arrogant that you don’t realize how rude you come off to others and then you get pissed when they counteract your rudeness.  Here’s the thing, your a douche! Stop being so douchy and maybe, just maybe people won’t be rude to you, but lets face it, your much to arrogant to think that your doing anything wrong. It is everyone else BUT you that is having the issue.

You know that some of you fit into these categories.  Knock it off!!!!

Week 5 The final week

The group has really come together to finish our paper. The comments from our peers were very helpful and insightful. In areas that we were struggling fresh eyes showed us. Both the coordinator and the final draft writer came together to focus on getting our paper perfect. We had our tasks and focused on them. I really liked the ideal of editing our groups papers, it allowed everyone to read each others papers and give our opinions. For the first time in my many writing classes, it was fun to write and learn what other groups “causes” were.

Week 4

Our group is working together quite nicely. We have found a good niche. I like that know one is afraid to bring up ideals, and no one is afraid of criticism receiving or giving. I am excited to turn our paper in for the grade but I am also excited about the feed back that we have received from other groups. I think it is a great concept to get peer edited before turning everything in.

I have been trying to practice in my life what our paper is about. I was in Flagstaff this weekend, I did a lot of hiking and found a lot of garbage including many plastic bottles. My boyfriend and I would pick up the garbage that we found and put in the garbage containers, which were usually near by. As for the plastic bottles we gathered them in a garbage bag to bring home and recycle. Thing that annoyed me most about finding the garbage laying around was that there was always a garbage container near by and Flagstaff has recycling bins all around. People are so messy!!

I hope that our paper will teach people that this type of behavior and carelessness is UNACCEPTABLE!!

Week 4 Looking back at week 3 =)

Working on the first part of the draft went over pretty good. I think that we forgot at some points that this is only a draft for this week and went full boat to make it great. =) I am really excited about our team project. We are all working very hard to make our report great. I am extremely happy with the group choice that I made. I have learned that focusing so much on this class has gotten me away from my studies in my other class, but I was able to get caught up over the weekend.

As for Blackboard, that is a another story! The new look of Blackboard is just fine, there was nothing wrong with the look of the last one. However, the speed that blackboard loads is still slow, nothing was fixed there and that is a big problem. I have had the server time out on my numerous times and usually at critical moments causing a ton of stress. I have been able to submit items after a few time outs which is good. That should be an issue though. If you are going to promote online learning, your tools need to work. The forum in the group area is different and confusing now. When you make a new post it doesn’t always show up when you go into the post to reply. You can tell that developers put Blackboard together and don’t ever use it. Us students should be asked, the teachers who use it should as well.

Lauren

Project Report Week Three

Weekly Team Project Participation:
After we got on the same page and setup a norm for asking and answering questions on our group discussion forum. Things seem to be well. Questions are answered within a day.
So far I have been doing the first drafts, this is what I will be working on for week three along with defining our target audience. So far the group has been throwing ideals out in the forum and we will be collaborating this evening.
We all seem to be working well together we have a good coordinator, at first she seemed to be taking over but as I got to know her through the forum, she is not she is just on top of things and knows how to do the assignments and is doing a great job at keeping everyone on task. I am not used to group members participating and working as hard as my two team-members do. It is quite refreshing!! I actually am looking forward to working on the project.
Things that I want to work on… I need to comment on the forum more, even when posts are not addressed to me. I want to keep myself in the loop more!
Happy Summer School to all!!

Summer School, Am I mad?!?!?

Taking two online courses over the summer semester. Some may say I am crazy others could say I am determined to finish school finally.
I have a blog, to discuss my summer school progress. Wish me luck!

Relationships

Some women when they get into a relationship tell their partner what they are or are not looking for, I commend that. You should definetly know what you are looking for and go after it. As everyone knows what you are looking for changes depending on your partner. When does it become time to tell your partner what you are looking for NOW isn’t what you were looking for when the two of you got together? Sooner rather then later is the answer. It is ok to change your mind, it happens we are women it is almost expected. However, it is your responibilty as a woman to let your partner know what is going on. Don’t wait until you have become a heated mess that is angry about everything and anything your partner does or does not do.

BE HONEST and OPEN!!! Don’t leave them lost and confused without any answers or closure!