10:28 am
Is it me, or are there certain things that shouldn’t be done is certain places? I was in a public restroom the other day and overhead a cell-phone conversation between a young applicant (on my end) and an employer. The applicant appeared to be saying the right things. He spoke with enthuisasm and made his points clearly. Things seemed to be going very well.
Then he flushed the toliet, not just any toliet, but one of those water-saving commodes that goes WHOOSH when you Continue reading “Don’t Flush the Toliet While You’re Interviewing!”
9:50 am
This past evening, my 14-year-old daughter ate an ice cream pop and left the stick and wrapper on the kitchen counter. I called upstairs and said “Erin, please put your ice cream stick in the trash.” After a bit of a huff, I heard her come back down into the kitchen. A short time later, I returned to the kitchen and discovered that, yes, she had put the ice cream stick in the trash but, no, she had not put the ice cream wrapper the stick was resting on in the trash as well. When I asked her to return the kitchen again, she once again returned with a huff and threw the wrapper away.
I asked, “Why didn’t you throw the wrapper out with the stick?” Continue reading “Stick and Wrapper: The Millennial Generation’s Interpretation of Instructions”
