Hacking & Coughing

Admin Gal appreciates a firm work ethic.  In fact, she is a firm believer that very few things should prevent one from getting the job done.  

However...

Please do not come to the office hacking and coughing, spreading your germs under the guise of being a good little soldier.  Martyr doesn't look good on anyone.

Please do everyone a favor and follow these simple suggestions:

1. If you are feeling under the weather, stay home, sleep, give your body a fighting chance to get over whatever it is that has assaulted you.
2. Don't hack and wheeze your way around the office.  The office environment is worse than kindergarten when it comes to illnesses.  Give your co-workers a break. Don't bring it to the office.
3. Work from home if you aren't feeling well.  Technology is marvelous, use it.
4. Go to the Doctor if it doesn't go away.  

Help keep the work environment healthy.

Thank you!

Spell Check, People!

Admin Gal gets it, we are all in a hurry.  Our society has been destroyed by that 140 character monster Twitter and texting.  

If Admin Gal receives one more email that ends in kthxbai.  She will not be held responsible for her actions.  She KNOWS that Mrs. Grady of your first grade spelling class did not find that acceptable spelling. 

In middle school, still not acceptable.

No, high school term paper would have passed with such an atrocity.

What in the name of sanity, makes one think that kthxbai would be acceptable in business correspondence. Even the spell checker can't make head's or tails of it.

Do the world a favor, prove that your formative education actually made an impression and spell things correctly.  Future generations and your business associates will thank you for it.

Greasy Fingerprints of Guilt

Admin Gal has an issue with organizations that will not trust the committees to complete the tasks they are assigned.

Projects can not be group managed.  The failure rate is 99.99% when this happens.  An excellent example is a newsletter.  Yes, content can be produced from the organization at large.  When it comes to the actual assembly and coordination of said newsletter, let the assignee's do their job.

Who shoulders the blame when everything goes to pot?  The original group who was assigned the task, that's who.  But the greasy fingerprints of the guilty, meddlesome creatures who couldn't help themselves, will be emblazoned on the smoldering heap of the failure.

Admin Gal's conclusion is - if you can't let go, don't assign the job.