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Carol H Tucker
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are you content with what you have?
Today is the 4th day of the 42nd week, the 19th day of the 10th month, the 293rd day of 2016, and:
- Dress Like a Dork Day
- Evaluate Your Life Day
- Hagfish Day
- Information Overload Day
- International Print Day
- LGBT Center Awareness Day
- Medical Assistants Recognition Day
- National Seafood Bisque Day
- National Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce Day
- New Friends Day
- Rainforest Day
- Support Your Local Chamber of Commerce
- Unity Day
- World Pediatric Bone and Joint Day
On this day: in 202 BC, at the Battle of Zama, Roman legions under Scipio Africanus defeated Hannibal Barca, leader of the army defending Carthage. In 1386 the Universität Heidelberg held its first lecture, making it the oldest German university. In 1900 Max Planck discovered the law of black-body radiation (Planck's law). In 1943 Streptomycin, the first antibiotic remedy for tuberculosis, was isolated by researchers at Rutgers University.
Today we had the annual mandatory HR meeting and this year it was diversity training. The moderator started out by having a short amount of time for you to talk with the person next to you, then we went around and introduced each other to the group – a necessary component because this past year there had been a lot of new hires. It was interesting to hear what some people chose to say in the way of introduction, what stood out to them. Point of origin was a consistent fact given and we had folks in the room who had been born in many different countries – China, Philippines, Haiti, Zimbabwe, India, Nepal -- as well as from different states. Length of service with the company, marital state, children and hobbies were also shared.
When I was introduced by the underwriter, what was shared was that I was born and raised in Baltimore, had worked here for almost 8 years, had a son living in Nashville and a daughter living in Ellicott City with two granddaughters, loved all things Disney and “probably knew more about social media than the entire room combined”.
Paychex HR Services was running the meeting and the rest of the training was really an exercise in looking at the social filters that we have, acknowledging that all of us stereotype to some degree There was an exercise] that asked if we shrunk the world’s population to just 100 people, then only 5 would live in North America, only 33 would be Christian, and:
Ø 80 live in substandard housing
Ø 34 adults are unable to read
Ø 50 suffer from malnutrition
Ø 33 do not have clean, safe water
Ø 22 do not have electricity
Ø 7 own a car
Ø And 32% of the entire world’s wealth would be in the hands of 5 [five] people
Now this breakdown was published two years ago, and you know how I feel about statistics, but breaking things down like this makes you think, neh? With food in the refrigerator, a car outside, a comfortable place to live and being literate, my life is immediately better than ¾ of the world’s people!
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