I Work With People

The Fud Factor, Fear Uncertainty & Doubt. The things you do not need when you are work.

You do not need to see employees getting picked off at random phone call times. You do not need to see the snakey guy that you just don’t get along with, get promoted. You can not live a life of Fear Uncertainty and Doubt.
You can not show up to work every day thinking “oh it’s probably my turn to get voted off of the island”. This is not a proper way to live. It certainly is not a good way to run a business.

Even if you think that you just hired 6 sales men to get the word out that you do a certain type installation, but you only need on e in the long run. It is not justified to hire people and then fire them off as soon as the money comes rolling in. This leaves you employees thinking you are a loose canon without a care about the outcome of your actions. This leaves your employees wondering if the company is having hard times, and if it is probably a good idea to leave while you still have an income, and just transition to a new place. This is a whole lot better than getting called into the dank office on a Wednesday to find out that you have to go job searching today.

You have to communicate with your employees. This will prevent rumors. You have to be just as loyal as you expect your employees to be to you. You can not leave your employees thinking that at any time you will just change your mind, and cause someone some hard times.

Some people react a bit different than others when they are scared. So it is best to be honest, and do not play games with people who are looking to be good employees making good money and providing for themself.

Imagine the employment form that says “tell us why you had to leave your last place of employment” and the potential employee responding with “because the owner of (company name here) Is an immature brat with no sense of business skills decided to hire me and fire me to make a point to his existing employees”.

Have you ever wanted to watch your employees? have you ever wondered if your employees were doing things on the internet that they are not supposed to be doing? Do you have that one person in the office that might be on facebook or twitter for the full 8 hours they are on the clock? Would you like to know exactly what your employees are using their computers for?
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You see, a working office is a productive office. a happy office is a great office but you can’t let the employees get away from what you want. a hit from lazy employees could in the end turn out to be a huge set back. if you have employees gradually doing more and more personal surfing on the web, it’s going to be really hard to get them back to work without the employee throwing a tantrum, or worse, you having to replace the employee. If you can keep your employees working, you can keep your environment productive.
Sometimes, monitoring their systems is important. Sometimes, monitoring your employees’ computers is a must. So if you have been asking how to see what your employees are doing, iMonitor employee computer monitoring software is the first place you should check. Their product works and is easy for you to use, does not slow down the employee’s computer and becomes a huge must once you try it

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Office Supplies

We all need our little items here and there. Some are perks some are necessities, some are just down right goofy. But hey, what ever helps you be more productive, is good for you. Well unless the item is unhealthy for you.

Office Supplies That I must Have

Every Single item on my desk there, is a must. Yes there are more items, but these are the ones that pick up every single day to make sure I have them.

What you see in the back is my computer tower. Need it, it represents the need for a computer as a whole. The thing you see on the right, is the left side of my Microsoft office keyboard. I need it because of the huge scroll wheel lets my right index finger rest when needed. Chart on the left is a home made list of device amps and voltages. So I can use for reference. Head set drowns out the OCD people who have the exact set of noises, every couple minutes.Highlighters, to help me count devices and separate one type from another. Tape, to hold the pages in spot while I work. Monitor, she is decent enough. My vitamins, and plenty of fluids!!!!!!

This my friends is my gear. until I get my new mouse, this is my gear.

What items do you have to have every day ?

That guy, that guy we all have ran into at a work place who is in charge of everyone and is so used to people giving him some sort of respect, so they can keep their job. The guy who thinks that respect directly reflects his masculinity, That guy who is bossman strong. No, you do not have to be the toughest person to be the boss. You do not have to be the best worker or most knowledgeable employee, you don’t have to be anything more than a friend of the boss or CEO or company owner or friend of  his son. This is how you define false sense of pride. a monetary Vice held over you head gives him the feeling of greatness, because you said “please”. would that not be how you define false sense of pride? Sure he can have pride in achieving his position, but not the value he sets his false pride at.

It’s the feeling of being an unchallenged rival. The feeling of knowing you have said some bold stuff to men that used to make you tremble. It’s this false sense of self worth because the people you run your mouth to have to work under your watch.

Well little man you need to know, you are the one that I take drinking and let him run his lip, and as soon as he gets his ass kicked, I turn my back. You are the guy I wouldn’t help, you are the guy that I continue to pet your ego while you hurt yourself “well big guy, if you can’t fight off that 90 year old lady, how am I supposed to?”. I have nothing to prove by dragging her around, and she is probably in the right for dragging you around the bar for being a little punk with a big mouth. And you probably deserve the elbow drops you receive. and when you get up after she has left  I will be the one that says “man you had her.. you won that dang fight just stupid circumstances made the cards fall wrong and now it looks worse than it really is, you really hit her in the shoulder hard”.

But the day I get fired, you are the one that needs to clear the area. You are the one that does not need to be giving me the sincere look with the crumpled eyebrow and salesman face, and you sure the heck do not want to use your over used over practiced tough guy face. Tough aint in a look. Although it is startling to have someone look at you frumpled when you can’t figure out what you have done to upset them.

Do you knock him out? do you just let this guy have it? could you live with yourself if you don’t ?

Some office meetings are a must. but Many are completely unnecessary.

The meeting that helps you discover what it takes to resolve an issue, is a meeting that you know and everyone knows is a must.

The meetings that you hold every Tuesday of every single week to “hammer out complications” makes your employees dependent on a group effort to problem solve. This keeps your employees from figuring things out for themselves and makes your employees start counting on everyone else to basically do their work for them. This time that is spent in the meeting full of sales people, is time that your sales people could be out making sales. This is time that your sales people could be gathering new customers and clients. This is time that your employees could be spending getting important things done.
Maybe a once month meeting can solve issues. A once a week meeting only causes laziness and problems from laziness. Sure it keeps you in the loop of topics they chime in on, but that stuff is never going to help YOU. The chiming in is only the things that have the employees upset with someone else, or a deflecting method to prevent you from uncovering their own personal flaws.

There are people who work, and there are people who sit around talking about working.

The sad part about increased unemployment, is the fact that less people are actually searching for a job.

According to Google Trends, the decline of people searching for a job has been steady since 2004. These are actuall searched in Google of the word employment.

Yet in the meantime, research of Unmployment has been on a rise in Google Trends. These are actual searches of the word unemployment.

You can see that there is a steady decline in people looking for a job. This number has not changed dramatically, even during the times that everyone is getting fired and laid off.

What can be the cause of less people actually trying to find a job?

Crazy thing is though, There has been an increase in talk about Lay offs and job hunting as if something is causing a big move or big change in the fact people are searching for a job. but really, they aren’t and the lower numbers being steady as it is shows that nothing new is happen in the negative employment. By all standards you would think that either  a. more people have jobs every year or b.more people are happy collecting unemployment. If by what the news is saying about more people being out of work, you could only assume that more people are on unemployment, and by what the graph shows, less people care to find a job.

are you one of these people?

Proposal for Law Enforcement

We should vote this in and mandate it as the first rule in order. That all law enforcement and members of government . All law enforcement should have to spend 5 months delivering pizza. This would give the police officer a fine chance to observe traffice from the eye of the least respected car on the road.
All government should have to work in a gas station before becoming anything. To be the least respected person in retail and to see how people really treat you as a person who is at work. They should be paid the same wages as their fellow employees, and be forced to live on such income. They should see society for what it really is. They should see how employees in the lowest rung get treated as if they are worthless in life, by even their employer who tells them they will never succeed at anything. This would force the government to intervene in minimum wages, benefits and relations of society. They should be hit constantly with beer stings at the fullest level. They will be less likely to treat low income people as if they do not have a valid story. They would see how many people out there are out to rip off everyone and how many people will try and get you fired because their soda was flat.

My two Cents

Nothing as entertaining as having sales people in the same office as designers.

every five minutes, there is someone walking by with a pointing finger practicing his eye twinkle and gun finger point with a “hey, I appreciate that”. It’s quite funny. It’s fun to see the salesmen accumulate a bunch of cheese to their daily greeting and goodbye. It’s funny to watch other salesmen incorporate the other salesmen’s cheese to their daily routine.

It is a must for a salesman to say ” Hey I think you’re pretty cool, no matter what the others say about you”. At least three times a week. It’s almost like stretching before a run, or a superstition before a performance on a stage. I just want to buy a few mirrors and stick them in each salesperson’s cubicle so they can practice their sincere faces and mouth movements. I really want to catch that on video. Yes. People of the sales depart are that dang into themself and what they do.

On the up side, there is plenty to be learned from them on how to be polite and nice no matter what.

Kudos.

Do you go to work while just in case you might get even more sick before the end of the year?

Normally I do not take sick days off, unless it’s unbearable. Or if I think it’s an illness that might spread through the office. Especially if I think I could get this one again. I usually end the year with extra sick days left. This year, maybe I am not eating as well. because every time I get sick, it feels like the worst ever.

If you are blowing chunks and dizzy and can’t see straight. You should be at home. be it because of stress or a bug. If you can not function and could potentially make monster mistakes. Then you should take a sick day. Take a day off from work and recoop.

This post sponsored by my sick day.