Archive for November, 2008

Black Friday

I just dropped my wife at her job. She’s a professional, and works out of a mall outlet. It’s “Black Friday” and the mall parking lot is a zoo - it’s 30 minutes in or out. And it’s ridiculous.
Let’s say the average person going out shopping on that day really does need or want what […]

21 Tips for Facilitating Training

I just came back from delivering training on a new software package in a couple of different cities for a major hospitality firm. In one city, I was asked if I had any advice on effective training facilitation for the trainers on-site. This is what I provided.

Change Management: Be prepared to comment on the reality […]

Justice: Purchase Accordingly

Not long ago, I posted an article on boycotting as a normal every day part of an ethical life, particularly an ethical business life. The other part of that is considering justice (ethics) in each purchase. Boycotting is about rejecting certain uses of wealth. Using justice in purchasing is about ethical use of wealth.
There are […]

Mercenary Work is a Limp Woman

Have you ever given everything you had, vast numbers of hours, to hell with lunch and breaks and going for a soda, only to have someone say it’s no big deal, because you’re getting paid? The mercenary view of work, otherwise known as wage prostitution. Sure, you’re being paid because you work, but is that […]

Let Your People Vote

My own state requires that employers provide 2hrs off to vote, but some employers are saying they can’t comply, because they can’t afford to lose the coverage. Bullshit. If that’s the case, they can’t afford other national holidays like Christmas and Thanksgiving. “I can’t afford it” is another way of saying “it’s not high among […]

Going Back to DOS

I’m reinstalling my operating system. I should say systemS, since I’m going to be triple booting. I used to dual boot Linux and Windows 2000, with Linux as primary, until my university presented me with a Microsoft-only interface to their online-eviron. Shortly thereafter, Windows went down, took the hard drive with it, and I didn’t […]