As some of you have noticed, my posting has been really lacking here (and elsewhere the last few months).
To catch everyone up to date – I started a new position with our district in the Internet Publishing Group, June 4.
My daily to-do list is a wide range of things but largely focuses on creating visual content (photos, graphics, videos etc.) for the district’s website and social media outlets.
Continue reading Back to Class 2012
Laurie and I had a nice, pleasant, relaxing day together yesterday.
We slept in and skipped out on our tribe’s weekly gathering.
Spent some time piddling around the web, went to the gym and then made a stop by Panera Bread for a late lunch/early dinner.
While we were there the restaurant wasn’t too busy but there seemed to be only a few visible workers. As we sat at the table one worker came by wiping the tables clean. Another was working behind the register and one or two were in the back preparing the food.
“Hey (insert name here) can you check the coffee for me?” said the employee from behind the register to the employee wiping tables.
“What?”
“Can you check the coffee for me?” the cashier responded.
We looked and saw a customer holding an empty coffee cup in between the coffee canisters and the register. The coffee canisters were roughly six or seven feet away from Laurie and I and the employee wiping the table.
Then the second employee then gave the oddest of responses.
“I can or you can — but I just came on.”
The cashier and customer looked at each other with puzzled looks. The cashier asked the other employee to repeat what she said.
“I can or you can — but I just came on.”
Laurie and I looked at each other with the same puzzled look as the customer and cashier.
The cashier then walked down to the end of the counter and walked over to the coffee canisters to check them.
Apparently, just starting your shift doesn’t actually require you to do any actual work.
Reid Slaughter at Frontburner suggests meteorologists may have the easiest job in the world. I think he’s right.
Consider the following: to be a TV weatherman,
1. You do not have to have any knowledge or opinions of your own. All you do is wake up in the morning and log on here and download your forecast from the experts. Let your fancy graphics do the rest.
2. You do not have to be good-looking, unless you’re a woman (in which case it helps to be a smokin’ hot babe).
3. You certainly don’t need much personality, or a good wardrobe.
4. You get to be wrong ALL THE TIME and still keep your job.
