Ahhh!!! Don’t get me started on corporate speak! I just had to do my goals and assessment forms and we had to use something called MATPICS – Managing, Applied Thinking, Personal Indicators and Cultural Skills to evaluate ourselves. Biggest BS I’ve ever seen but we’re a fortune 5 company so have to oblige to all these HR and Industrial Psych crap.
i think working with kids is different as in i dont think they are jaded and beaten down by life yet and are more likely to appreciate what youre doing.. plus most volunteer work that’s needed for kids is just picking up the slack of their sorry ass parents. i dont think people should be allowed to breed if they make < 50K a year.
*rob*
I like to volunteer with kids too,
those goofy bastards just wanna have fun.
Rob, since you don’t volunteer, you don’t get to see the real gratitude I’ve seen from the poor, and others who benefit from a good deed or two. That’s not why I volunteer my time, which I wish I could do more, but it’s a nice perk. You should find a cause you believe in and try it. It can be helping save animals, or cure cancer. I don’t think one is better than the other, the world needs people to do whatever they can, wherever they can, for a huge host of worthy causes.
THANK YOU, Pete! But it turns out you were right all along. I went down the hall to a colleague’s office whose window has not yet been cleaned and the sky looks smoggy once again.
Pete —
Synergy has become a really obnoxious buzzword. But it’s actually a very OLD word. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It was really huge a hundred years ago when talking about human labor… Frederick Winslow Taylor and his scientific management and industrial efficiency. The Ford assembly line. Motion studies and so on.
“I like to volunteer with kids too,”
I would like to volunteer my kids for any boarding school that will take them.
I once volunteered some time to
the Ayn Rand society…
they kicked me in the ass
and told me to get a job.
Ahhh!!! Don’t get me started on corporate speak! I just had to do my goals and assessment forms and we had to use something called MATPICS – Managing, Applied Thinking, Personal Indicators and Cultural Skills to evaluate ourselves. Biggest BS I’ve ever seen but we’re a fortune 5 company so have to oblige to all these HR and Industrial Psych crap.
By Butterfly on May 13, 2010 11:12 AM
i think working with kids is different as in i dont think they are jaded and beaten down by life yet and are more likely to appreciate what youre doing.. plus most volunteer work that’s needed for kids is just picking up the slack of their sorry ass parents. i dont think people should be allowed to breed if they make < 50K a year.
*rob*
I like to volunteer with kids too,
those goofy bastards just wanna have fun.
Rob, since you don’t volunteer, you don’t get to see the real gratitude I’ve seen from the poor, and others who benefit from a good deed or two. That’s not why I volunteer my time, which I wish I could do more, but it’s a nice perk. You should find a cause you believe in and try it. It can be helping save animals, or cure cancer. I don’t think one is better than the other, the world needs people to do whatever they can, wherever they can, for a huge host of worthy causes.
THANK YOU, Pete! But it turns out you were right all along. I went down the hall to a colleague’s office whose window has not yet been cleaned and the sky looks smoggy once again.
I put spot remover on my dog,
…he disappeared.
Pete —
Synergy has become a really obnoxious buzzword. But it’s actually a very OLD word. The whole is more than the sum of its parts. It was really huge a hundred years ago when talking about human labor… Frederick Winslow Taylor and his scientific management and industrial efficiency. The Ford assembly line. Motion studies and so on.
Hey! You all leave my buddy Denton alone! Besides, I think he’s still spry enough to kick yer asses 🙂