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Carol H Tucker
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Today is the 6th day of the 8th week, the 24th day of the 2nd month, the 55th day of 2017 [with only 303 shopping days until Christmas], and:
- Forget Me Not Day
- Girl Scout Cookie Weekend -- 1st day
- Independence Day: Estonia from Russia in 1918
- International Repetitive Strain Injury Awareness Day
- International STAND UP to Bullying Day
- National Tortilla Chip Day
- National Trading Day
- Women in Blue Jeans Days
- World Bartender Day
ON THIS DAY: In 303 Galerius published his edict that begins the persecution of Christians in his portion of the Roman Empire. In 1582, with the papal bull Inter gravissimas, Pope Gregory XIII announced the Gregorian calendar. In 1607 L'Orfeo by Claudio Monteverdi, one of the first works recognized as an opera, premiered. In 1663 Louis XIV canceled the original trading charter and New France [Canada] was made a royal colony of France, with a governor and an intendant; law courts come into existence. In 1711 Rinaldo by George Frideric Handel,the first Italian opera written for the London stage, premiered. In 1822 the first Swaminarayan temple in the world, Shri Swaminarayan Mandir, Ahmedabad, was inaugurated. In 1854 a Penny Red with perforations was the first perforated postage stamp to be officially issued for distribution. In 1868 Andrew Johnson became the first President of the United States to be impeached by the United States House of Representatives but was later acquitted in the Senate. In 1920 the German Workers Party, which later became the Nazi Party, met in Munich to adopt its platform. In 1942 an order-in-council passed under the Defense of Canada Regulations of the War Measures Act gives the Canadian federal government the power to intern all "persons of Japanese racial origin" and the Voice of America went on the air for the first time. In 1971 Commonwealth citizens lost their automatic right to remain in the UK under the government's new Immigration Bill.
Quote of the day:
“There are two kinds of pride, both good and bad. 'Good pride' represents our dignity and self-respect. 'Bad pride' is the deadly sin of superiority that reeks of conceit and arrogance.”
~ John C. Maxwell, American author, speaker, and pastor
Yesterday’s musing on the current adulation of the cult of being busy asked the question of how one determines one’s value.
At least as value is determined in the workplace, it reminds me of the inevitable conversations about “market value” each and every time the annual reviews rolled around. Say what you will about the need for feed-back and action planning, most folks on the job see the annual review time as when or if they get a raise and/or bonus. The important thing to understand is that businesses do not pay you for what you know, but only for the KSA [knowledge, skills, abilities] your particular position requires. [ side bar: Best example of this? At one bank we had a woman who had retired from another job decide to take a job as a part-time switchboard operator and was paid more-or-less minimum wage. But when she became the VP of HR [because that was what she had been in her previous work life], she was then paid according to that position -- same person, same KSA, different value to the organization] . But I have to agree with the perception that market value consistently seems to short the value of those who fill positions that “do” [as opposed to those who manage, create or sell]
The whole “OMG I am so busy” has changed the question “are you busy”, which used to be a polite way of asking if you could take up someone’s time at the moment, but now answering it can be fraught with implications: if you aren’t “busy” are you saying you are lazy? Irrelevant? Replaceable? If you say you are “busy” are you brushing someone off or making them feel socially or organizationally inferior by humble-bragging? Depending who is asking? I usually settle for something along the lines of “yes, but how can I help you” or for someone closer to me “I’m never too busy for you”
But you know what? Sometimes I am NOT busy and I plan it that way. So there!
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