I am asking this question because I woke up today in a grumpy mood. Why? Who knows. I certainly don’t. Why is it that sometimes we just feel like a grump? I can hear my Mother saying, “If you complain because you don’t have shoes, think about the people who don’t have...
Month: February 2012
More Thoughts on Mediation – The Zone of Possibility
I have noticed that when cases don’t settle at mediation it is because of one of two reasons. REASON ONE: EMOTIONS One reason is emotions. It is rare, but sometimes the parties come to mediation only because it was mandated by the court. The parties just don’t want to...
Evaluations May Be A Problem
One of my employment workplace pet peeves are evaluations improperly done. The problem all started with the employee manual. Someone, way back when, put a clause in the manual that stated that evaluations would be performed every year in January. This got copied by...
Smells At Work
When I do discrimination trainings, I always talk about smells at work. Maybe I have a sensitive nose, but smells at work can be a real distraction. Smells include the stinky ones like body odor but they also include the more subjective obnoxious smells such as...