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Important Truth
There's an important truth in this tale. I'm just not sure what it is. :-)
I was walking past the mental hospital the other day and all the patients were shouting ,'13....13....13'
The fence was too high to see over but I saw a little gap in the planks and looked through to see what was going on.
Some bastard poked me in the eye with a stick.
Then they all started shouting '14....14....14'...
I was walking past the mental hospital the other day and all the patients were shouting ,'13....13....13'
The fence was too high to see over but I saw a little gap in the planks and looked through to see what was going on.
Some bastard poked me in the eye with a stick.
Then they all started shouting '14....14....14'...
Caught Red-Handed---What Would You Do?
Lets say that you are the boss. Lets say that you caught a professional employee in the act of stealing. For the sake of argument, lets assume that another person saw it also. There is no doubt. The employee is guilty. What would you do?
Do you turn the other way because "John" is such a good guy? Do you confront him? Do you call HR and/or security? Would you be influenced by the seriousness of the theft? What if it was office supplies such as pens or computer paper? How about 2 bags of mulch in front of the office? Okay, how about a computer or printer?
Should the size of the crime matter? Isn't theft the issue? What if the thief is an employee of a protected class? A high potential employee? A prized and costly recruit? Does it matter?
Most of my HR friends will think this one is easy. They will act on theft regardless of the value of the object or regardless of the person committing the crime. I suspect that many of my non-HR friends will be swayed by who committed the crime. They may even be inclined to look the other way. I should also point out that cultural differences may play a role. This one may be handled differently in Singapore or China.
The difficult question is what do you do about it? If your policy says that theft is a dischargable offense, do you discharge someone with a clean record for taking something of negligible value? Some of you may be influenced by the person's record while others will say that a theft is a theft and want to discharge the person immediately. Most company policies leave room for interpretation. In other words, company officials can determine the penality to levy on the crime---up to and including discharge.
Call me a soft but I have a difficult time firing someone who has a clean record for taking something like several sheets of computer paper or a couple of pens. A box of paper is a different story. A computer is clear in my mind. For the smaller crimes, I would advocate placing someone on written notice and firing them immediately if theft of any kind occurs again.
How do you vote? What would you do?
Do you turn the other way because "John" is such a good guy? Do you confront him? Do you call HR and/or security? Would you be influenced by the seriousness of the theft? What if it was office supplies such as pens or computer paper? How about 2 bags of mulch in front of the office? Okay, how about a computer or printer?
Should the size of the crime matter? Isn't theft the issue? What if the thief is an employee of a protected class? A high potential employee? A prized and costly recruit? Does it matter?
Most of my HR friends will think this one is easy. They will act on theft regardless of the value of the object or regardless of the person committing the crime. I suspect that many of my non-HR friends will be swayed by who committed the crime. They may even be inclined to look the other way. I should also point out that cultural differences may play a role. This one may be handled differently in Singapore or China.
The difficult question is what do you do about it? If your policy says that theft is a dischargable offense, do you discharge someone with a clean record for taking something of negligible value? Some of you may be influenced by the person's record while others will say that a theft is a theft and want to discharge the person immediately. Most company policies leave room for interpretation. In other words, company officials can determine the penality to levy on the crime---up to and including discharge.
Call me a soft but I have a difficult time firing someone who has a clean record for taking something like several sheets of computer paper or a couple of pens. A box of paper is a different story. A computer is clear in my mind. For the smaller crimes, I would advocate placing someone on written notice and firing them immediately if theft of any kind occurs again.
How do you vote? What would you do?
Mensa
I'm just curious if anyone here has had experiences with a Mensa group, and if so what were those experiences like (?)
trends
Things are different today, he writes, because of four trends: human pressure on the earth, a dangerous rise in population, extreme poverty and a political climate characterized by “cynicism, defeatism and outdated institutions.” These pressures will increase as the developing world inexorably catches up to the developed world. By 2050, he writes, the world’s population may rise to 9.2 billion from 6.6 billion today — an increase of 2.6 billion people, which is “too many people to absorb safely.” The combination of climate change and a rapidly growing population clustering in coastal urban zones will set the stage for many Katrinas, not to mention “a global epidemic of obesity, cardiovascular disease and adult-onset diabetes.”
Sachs smartly describes how we got here, and the path we must take to avert disaster
Jeffrey Sach states there are 4 trends that is making the world very different and a lot more insecure. They include: a dangerous population rise from 6.6 billion to 9.6 billion;
Combining with climate change; outdate institutions to politically manage information and actions; finally a global epidemic of obesity, cardiovascular disease and adult onset of diabetes. I would like to add another issue a segregation of people based on what ever lines that breeds isolation and fractures positive movement.
As a group what might be some paths as a country one can take to deal with these trends. (America and Europe dos not have an increasing population but the rest of the world does. We do have the other three factors)
yichel
Sachs smartly describes how we got here, and the path we must take to avert disaster
Jeffrey Sach states there are 4 trends that is making the world very different and a lot more insecure. They include: a dangerous population rise from 6.6 billion to 9.6 billion;
Combining with climate change; outdate institutions to politically manage information and actions; finally a global epidemic of obesity, cardiovascular disease and adult onset of diabetes. I would like to add another issue a segregation of people based on what ever lines that breeds isolation and fractures positive movement.
As a group what might be some paths as a country one can take to deal with these trends. (America and Europe dos not have an increasing population but the rest of the world does. We do have the other three factors)
yichel
What are you afraid of?
Charles asked about Fear....so lets talk about what we are afraid of.
What do we fear...I mean apart from spiders....what in our lives do we fear? Rejection....loss.....the enemy....loosing loved ones or a job.
what does it do to you in your daily life.....do you handle it or does it cripple you?
What do we fear...I mean apart from spiders....what in our lives do we fear? Rejection....loss.....the enemy....loosing loved ones or a job.
what does it do to you in your daily life.....do you handle it or does it cripple you?
VALIDATION...A Loaded
Word That Speaks Volumes? Do we naturally seek it, need it, entertain it or just plain
consider it a bonus? What thinks us...
consider it a bonus? What thinks us...
God Obsolete?
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An opportunity to engage in a discussion of the big questions.
Does science make belief in God obsolete?
No,but only if...
We must "reinvent the sacred," but it is dangerous: it implies that the sacred is invented. For billions of believers this is Godless heresy. Yet how many gods have we worshiped down the eons? It is we who have told our gods what is sacred, not they who have told us.-Stuart Kauffman
An opportunity to engage in a discussion of the big questions.
Does science make belief in God obsolete?
No,but only if...
We must "reinvent the sacred," but it is dangerous: it implies that the sacred is invented. For billions of believers this is Godless heresy. Yet how many gods have we worshiped down the eons? It is we who have told our gods what is sacred, not they who have told us.-Stuart Kauffman
Anger management
In another group they were talking about people today having more anger....you know the road rage and general unpolitness. Talking about being stuck in traffic and all that......well what do we concider stress now. Think of WW2 and being bombed (well you guys werent but you get the point) that was stress.............what do you do to cope with every day stress.? It should not be stress in the real sense of it but yet we cope less now and people seem to have lost the nack of caring about others. Not everyone but a general trend. How can we reverse that trend?
welcome
welcome Itsabeautiful
Great to have new people here I hope you enjoy yourself. Lots to talk about and please do read some of the old posts and bring them on back if you have anything to add......
Great to have new people here I hope you enjoy yourself. Lots to talk about and please do read some of the old posts and bring them on back if you have anything to add......
Misunderstood or Understood?
Which is the greater tragedy - being misunderstood, or being understood all too well?
Marti
Marti
