3 days, 18 hours, 5 minutes, and 58 seconds

...it's no wonder a majority of business owners prefer the slow pain of keeping an unproductive worker on the company payroll, than the sudden, potentially sharper pain of taking them off.
"Think of it like someone who would rather suffer with a dull toothache than go to the dentist and face the drill,"

Yeah, that may be true, but if you make your good employees pick up the slack and let the incompetent employees continue to be incompetent, I guarantee you will lose those good employees.

And if you're like my current boss, you will be mad at the good employee for leaving. Even when she has just spent a year trying to get rid of the bad employees.

Also, giving the silent treatment until you are ready to ask the pardoned prisoner... I mean leaving employee.... to help you out whenever possible only confirms that said employee made the right choice.

Seriously.

I told her that giving me 90% of the previously departed paralegal's work was too much. After telling me she would change (i.e. not be so negative) and would take on some of that work herself, I watched her turn it all over to PL/Biller. Along with my job. Ummmmm. What am I missing here?

One more week.

I got a new job!

I rock!

Enough so, that when I told my current boss I was tendering my two-week notice, she canceled her dinner plans and spent the next hour and forty-five (or is that fourty-five) minutes trying to talk me into staying.

And she was pretty good at it.

But: I knew enough that I refused to make a decision under duress and within an hour of leaving the situation I knew I was not accepting her offer to work things out.

So, in 2 weeks I will be starting my new job. I wish I could say that I will not have as much to post, but, much to my dismay, I encouter stupidity so often even when I am not at work that I believe I will be able to keep this blog running strong. Though I may change the title since I will no longer be an Office Manager.

And aside from that, poor PL/Biller will still be in the office and will have plenty to share, so there will be plenty of links to her blog.

Speaking of: Would anyone like to hire her? I will give her an excellent reference. She works hard and has common sense. She can spell forty, and Pete, and dragon. Contact me if you are interested in hiring her.

I think I have found a new purpose for this blog. PL/Biller--we will get you out of there!

Fan mail

I received an e-mail from a fan (what can I say, I rock!), telling me how great my blog was and how he lived each day just waiting to read what I have to say.... or he had a story of his own to share, I dunno. Either way--

This gentleman was recently given a compost tumbler from an incredibly nice couple. I could write an entire blog on the goodness of this couple, they really are that great, but I'll just stick to his story...

The e-mail read:

"I started a load of compost last Sunday, 3/25/07, since the low temps are to be above 40 deg. for a few weeks. It is heating up to a core temp of 135 deg. which is good for this stage. Filling this tumbler, I came to question a few things, one being how full can I pack it before it will not have proper air circulation. I am guessing the door should be down to help the natural air flow. With this said, I e-mailed the compost tumbler company and asked if a user manual was available."

The response from the company came, via e-mail, wherein they requested his contact information so they could e-mail it to him.

The sad part is, I have heard similar stories.