Halloween…  According to History.com:
The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the United Kingdom, and northern France, celebrated their new year on November 1. This day marked the end of summer and the harvest and the beginning of the dark, cold winter, a time of year that was often […]

Rambling Wednesdays….. ready??
First, sorry for the delay in writing, something is wrong with my eye which is causing me pretty bad headaches.  Headaches bad enough that I’m not sleeping.  So I went back to the doctor today, going to the opthamologist this afternoon, and then to the hospital for an MRI before dinner… fun fun […]

A Nourished Ditty
That’s an anagram for “Thursday Edition”.  It’s a sickness.  Sorry.
Anyways…
Get Rid of the Performance Review!
yes, the grabber from Monday’s WSJ.  I’m writing a formal response, but you know I hate being “real formal” in the way I say stuff. I still am finding things that make me laugh out loud when I read […]

Ah, Rambling Wednesdays.
Get Rid of the Performance Review!
… It destroys morale, kills teamwork and hurts the bottom line.  And that’s just for starters.
Wow.  Now that’s a headline.  And in the WSJ no less.  Dr. Culbert, consultant, author, and professor of management at the UCLA Anderson School of Management in Los Angeles knows how to write […]

Yea, I skipped Friday.  Funky Day, Funky Mood, No Snark.  Yes, it’s true.  There are days where I have no snark!
Anyways…
Rewards & Recognition at Home
My younger son had his quarterly review from high school.  Here is his junior year schedule:

Pre-Calculus Honors
Chemistry AP
Statistics AP
US History AP
English Honors
Spanish IV
Academic Lab
Piano

Yea, a pretty easy load.  Slacker.
So, because I […]

So, we had our third and final in-depth interview last night between the two remaining candidates.  We have less than three weeks of due diligence left to do research, listen to the advice of our friends, neighbors, and talking heads, and review the results of this 22 month selection process.
And then on November 4th, we […]

Yes, a Wednesday edition of “Rambling Wednesdays”, better known to my anagram loving friends as “A Bad Mingled Wryness”…
Sometimes What They Don’t Say Speaks Volumes
A recent search on-line turned up a reminder letter for an employee survey that was being conducted in September at a large college:
As of Monday afternoon about 1,000 of the roughly […]

A Bad Mingled Wryness on A Tuesday….  SHOCKING…
Retention in 2008
So, the new report is out from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.  The Tenure in 2008 report shows the changes in national employee retention from the previous report published by the Gov. in 2006.  If you don’t already subscribe to the BLS reports, do so.  You […]

What a crazy month we’ve been through… and still a few weeks before the election.
Wow.
I saw Chicken-Little holding a press conference.
Really.  OK, not really, but it made for a funny mental picture, didn’t it.
I’ve decided to spend the next few weeks catching up on my usual Wednesday Ramblings (A Bad Mingled Wryness).  I’ve got a […]

It’s been awhile.
Snarky is coming back slowly and surely.
And I know my Dad would be happy about that.  The Show Must Go On.
Behavioral Interviews Part Two
We got to see a series of behavioral interviews in the last two weeks for two of the most important jobs in our country.  We have a very diverse group […]