Admin Gal is NOT Pleased!

Today started out high octane, just the way Admin Gal likes it.  Lots to do, people to coordinate, mountains to climbs and oceans to swim.  All this before noon. 

The lunch hour arrives. Admin Gal goes into the floor kitchenette to retrieve her lunch.  (After all, in these trying times being frugal is the new sign of prosperity.) To her dismay, her lunch is gone!  The space where her lunch inhabited is empty. Zip, nada, zilch. 

Now, her lunchtime offerings were not any gastronomic delicacy.  Lunch was simply a frozen dinner.  The point is that Admin Gal purchased said dinner with her hard earned money.  Having purchased it, expected it to be where she put it!

So now a note, vetted by the HR representative on the floor adorns the refrigerator:

“If you did NOT BRING the FOOD in the REFRIGERATOR,

DO NOT EAT THE FOOD!

THEFT IS NOT LOOKED KINDLY UPON”

Admin Gal was asked to remove all references to quartering, maiming and humiliation. She thought it would make the point more valid.  Some people have no sense of drama.

The Hierarchy of Things

In the grand scheme of things there will always be bigger fish and smaller fish in the hierarchical order of the universe.  By law the bigger fishis meant to chomp the smaller fish and on down the line, or so Darwin would have you believe.  But as a smaller, more clever, and agile fish swimming in a pool filled with large sharks, I have found that my ability to think fast and maneuver on a dime to be ahead of the sharp teeth of the carnivorous predators that swim in my waters.

Working in the corporate environment is often a drama of survival of the most clever.  Who can adapt to the newest paradigm, avoid the latest pitfalls, and stay ahead of the bigger, less agile predator.

So I swim smart, swiftly and sleekly through the corporate waters of life, working to keep my fins intact and knowing that I have a lot of life lessons still to learn.

Dress Code or How Not to Dress Like a Pop Tart

The summer has drawn to a close.  People have once more started covering their bodies with more layers of clothing in order to accommodate the wildly fluctuating temperatures of the fall.  HOWEVER...
That doesn't mean that some people do not try to keep summer alive.  The sad, sad truth is that companies need to put forth some sort of dress codes. If only to educate the clueless.
This summer my eyes have been assaulted with cleavage baring tops on people where more fabric is a necessity not a fashion statement.  Skirts that with a stiff wind or an inappropriate bend the world would be privy to their privates.  More knarly, sparkly flip-flops that were stinky bio-hazards that did not belong in a corporate environment.  All of the above a direct violation of the company's dress code.

People.  I am not the fashion police.  I'm sure that people look at me and say I could desperately use a make over.  But when I leave the house in the morning, I know that no fashion catastophe will happen.  All my bits and parts will stay properly covered and never see the light of day so that my co-workers will wish never had happened.

The advice of a good friend follows :   Folks – put a mirror in your foyer – one last look before you leave for work, doesn’t hurt.  If you have to question to yourself whether or not something is appropriate, it probably isn’t!

Responsibility

As I travel through the blogosphere, I encounter a bevy of different types of bloggers.  Each blogger trying to accomplish a different goal.  Some wish to document their lives, some vent their frustrations, some share knowledge, some start businesses.
The Blogosphere is a cornucopia of opportunity.
Lately, a debate about anonymous blogging has raged.  One camp has cried that taking away the anonymity is akin to taking our First Amendment Right of Free Speech.  The other camp states that you should take responsibility for what you write regardless of the consequences.  Yes, First Amendment Rights of Free Speech apply but those who are responsible are writing within that context and have nothing to fear.
I have to say that stand in the second camp.  I live by the rule 'If my mother can't read what I write, I don't publish it!' Trite I know.  I feel that too many people hide behind a mask to publish slanderous and defamatory materials about decent people.  All under the guise of Free Speech.


Free Speech does not protect against slander and libel.  Both of which are prosecutable.  Publishing anonymously doesn't give anyone the right to hurt another person.  PERIOD.

Not all Anonymous Bloggers publish with the intent to harm.  Some are worried about personal security.  There are plenty of opportunists that can do irreparable harm with just a little bit of seemingly harmless information.  That being said, I truly believe the majority of bloggers simply wish to express themselves, if asked they will reveal themselves.

I'll be honest.  While I might be pointed and tart in what I say, I stand by my opinion.  I am a private individual, who welcomes new friends and acquaintances. As the light of bloggers rights is being shined across the blogosphere, I know that I can stand in the light and fear no shadows.
I am a blogger.