lol!
I hear you! I have zero patience for that. Let's get what needs to happen done and move on. Many companies are dysfunctional now, paralyzed by the need to protect themselves and over document everything.
The base issue in my view? "Sounds good in the board room". Similar to accountants believing they are business people (they are just one information source to consider, that's all).
I hear you! I have zero patience for that. Let's get what needs to happen done and move on. Many companies are dysfunctional now, paralyzed by the need to protect themselves and over document everything.
The base issue in my view? "Sounds good in the board room". Similar to accountants believing they are business people (they are just one information source to consider, that's all).
I was very lucky in my final job; I was given two very difficult tasks (and a few much easier ones), then left to get on with them. When I asked for test gear, I got it. Mind you, I explained why I needed it, what the list price was, the discount I hoped to negotiate, and my upper price limit. Nobody else haggled on price. Both very difficult tasks resulted in patents.
I stopped "working" about 25 years ago.
I do not call fun.... "work". I get to meet the most interesting nobel laurates, so cool. At that level, they have nothing to prove so are really pleasant to talk to.
I stopped the bike, pool, and running years ago. have a recumbent in the basement with a 43 inch screen to keep me from dying of boredom. ( I cling to accomplishments from days gone by). Gonna hafta dust that puppy off and lose some poundage (happy hour induced of course). I fear the roads around here, drivers are just so ignorant of bicycles.
John
I do not call fun.... "work". I get to meet the most interesting nobel laurates, so cool. At that level, they have nothing to prove so are really pleasant to talk to.
I stopped the bike, pool, and running years ago. have a recumbent in the basement with a 43 inch screen to keep me from dying of boredom. ( I cling to accomplishments from days gone by). Gonna hafta dust that puppy off and lose some poundage (happy hour induced of course). I fear the roads around here, drivers are just so ignorant of bicycles.
John
John, you have gone through many things that no one on the planet ever aspires to. You are still with us and we are appreciative that you can be here with the other smart guys to spread knowledge of the few, and to sweep away some of the fluff we see, without being anything other than a gentleman. We applaud that.
EC, he has a little bit of that in him too. 🙂
Cheers and thank you to you both.
EC, he has a little bit of that in him too. 🙂
Cheers and thank you to you both.
In the spirit of the thread...
I gave a safety talk directorate wide, talking about all the administrative protections we use, signs, banners, lights and such. I pushed situational awareness as key to being safe within administrative efforts and then gave an account where not being aware of the surroundings can make a difference.
Detailed an episode where I was in a store approaching a spiral staircase, up on the outer edge with wide steps and shallow slope, down was treacherous.
As I approached, an older woman coming down stumbled and was tipping forward, going to faceplant from about 8 feet up. I stepped into her path, and "reduced her forward velocity to zero through the utilization of two points of contact". (had to sound geeky).
I apologized profusely for those two points of contact, she thanked me for same. (she had a very soft deceleration BTW, whoa).
It was really funny explaining to my wife that a woman I did not know thanked me for grabbing her lady-bumps.
So far, HR hasn't called me in..
John
ps..ah, the point was that had I been looking at a cell phone, the outcome would have been different, she would have been in the hospital.
Her takeaway from the encounter was she walked into her home in the same condition she left it...me...instant gratification.
pps. certainly not a superhero. what I did is exactly what any parent does, kids do so tend to get into trouble so we have to be on our toes at all times reacting without thinking. Well, grandkids now.
I gave a safety talk directorate wide, talking about all the administrative protections we use, signs, banners, lights and such. I pushed situational awareness as key to being safe within administrative efforts and then gave an account where not being aware of the surroundings can make a difference.
Detailed an episode where I was in a store approaching a spiral staircase, up on the outer edge with wide steps and shallow slope, down was treacherous.
As I approached, an older woman coming down stumbled and was tipping forward, going to faceplant from about 8 feet up. I stepped into her path, and "reduced her forward velocity to zero through the utilization of two points of contact". (had to sound geeky).
I apologized profusely for those two points of contact, she thanked me for same. (she had a very soft deceleration BTW, whoa).
It was really funny explaining to my wife that a woman I did not know thanked me for grabbing her lady-bumps.
So far, HR hasn't called me in..
John
ps..ah, the point was that had I been looking at a cell phone, the outcome would have been different, she would have been in the hospital.
Her takeaway from the encounter was she walked into her home in the same condition she left it...me...instant gratification.
pps. certainly not a superhero. what I did is exactly what any parent does, kids do so tend to get into trouble so we have to be on our toes at all times reacting without thinking. Well, grandkids now.
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Whoa. Saks 5th avenue in Southampton NY is where my encounter happened, about 25 or 30 years ago. I didn't realize it was a Saks trademark.
John
Fifteen years ago, management was fond of telling us to put our ducks in a row. 🙂