What's the story with Belief?, part 1
While I am not surprised that humans have the urge to believe in a religion or related system, what does send me up the wall with astonishment is the need humans have to feel threatened by others'...
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I know I am not the first to face what I am facing in my job. Far worse has happened to others so why should I run my mouth? And possibly far worse is yet to happen to me too. One never knows.From...
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The economic news continues to get worse. Multi-thousands have already been laid off, the financial disasters of banks, companies, and in personal lives just seemingly continues to expand.What is the...
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Monday.Got out of having to attend a meeting today. Last week when my manager was in town (G is in our office about one week a month), he asked me to attend a meeting with him. (He also asked MK to...
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Maybe there's a plan, but it gets really weirdly annoying when G sends requests for information to either MK or I but not both. If MK is now supposed to be the lead in the group for the particular...
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Tomorrow morning at 9am the CEO will hold an all-company conference call.So I assume this will be the major announcement of the changes. In the past, there were actually three calls, allowing many...
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The CEO talk this morning did not have any major announcements. Mostly about how we're holding up despite the general economy.The requisite number of corporate buzzwords were heard. Periodically, new...
View ArticleJob, part 14
Buzzwording. (Did I make up a new word?)On a call today with my manager, G, he said, "The closeout I had with so-and-so today on this was..."One that has become much more common in recent years is,...
View ArticleJob, part 15
From time to time, I stumble across information that may not have been intended for my eyes. It was not something I went out of my way to uncover. Someone left some planning documents in a public...
View ArticleBelief, part 2. Belief about myself
I was reading through some blogs recently, and on one particular one I was struck by someone who talked all about the risk he and his wife went through to start their own business, and how difficult it...
View ArticleBelief, part 3. The purpose and use of Anger
At one time or another, I have heard that the purpose of anger is to let you know what is important to you.Not a bad explanation. It is not always obvious the real reason someone gets angry, in our...
View ArticleJob, part 16
We had our departmental meeting today.No major surprises regarding personnel shifting. We heard a general outline of plans. It was much less concrete than what I had seen in the planning document last...
View ArticleBelief, part 4. Death and life
Life, death.I recently left a comment at Random Thoughts asking Stuart his view on knowing death when I'm dead. The reason I asked him was because I recently watched some You Tube video of him...
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So now it has come much clearer that P, the main department director, has slowly taken over the world and made it his. In his about three years since he has arrived, he has managed to do the...
View ArticleJob, part 18
Employment, self.With all the unsettledness and turmoil around, with all the ambiguity of my new role, with the unclarity and lack of clear direction on what I am expected to do, it has become...
View ArticleJob, part 19
How to advance in your career by taking over your department and ruin the careers of others.Assuming you don't mind being a Macchiavelli to get ahead.Here are a set of guidelines to achieve your goal,...
View ArticleFear, part 1
Some years back, after I was living in California about a year, I was working in a very unstable company, and wanted to find a new job. Someone I had met at a temporary job a few months earlier set up...
View ArticleDeath, part 1
My father passed away last week.It was not unexpected. He was 89 and suffering from lung cancer and was declining rapidly in recent weeks, losing weight and losing the ability to move around. About ten...
View ArticleJob, part 20
More layoffs this week.This was the second round. The first having been about six or seven months ago. (That means that October could be the next phase.)The usual reason was given, the state of the...
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It's been almost a year. I did not know what to expect about the effect of my father's passing away, and it has been a year. I functioned, and did what I would have normally done in the past year. But...
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More layoffs last week.That was the third round. Previous one was about a year ago. Since the company fiscal year ended the week before, it rhymes. I am beginning to think they will continue on a...
View ArticleJob, part 22
Company meeting scheduled for this week was postponed again. This is the fourth time it has been postponed. Wouldn't sound good to me if someone from another company told me this story.So it is...
View ArticleJob, part 23
In the last week, I have had a tremendous turn-about in my attitude. It came about because of a turn-about in my thinking.I started to look at what people do, not at what they say. And... BOOM! It was...
View ArticleJob, part 24
We had our company meeting finally. Looks like financially things are starting to look a little better. More sales. I knew things have been on the upswing because for the last month and a half, they...
View ArticleJob, part 25
We had our departmental meeting a few days after the company meeting. Nothing new.S talked briefly about the financial aspects of the company. Then we had a mind-numbing talk from head the of marketing...
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