Give Thanks...

As the holidays are upon us, its so important to take a step back and give thanks to everything you have in your life. I am very grateful to have such a great family and friends. On Thanksgiving I went to my grandmother's house and we had a great thanksgiving meal. Although i was a little disappointed that it was only my mom, dad, sister and my nephew colin who i love and adore so much that showed up for the feast. None of my cousins, uncles, or aunts were able to make it this year. I know I haven't always spent the most time with my grandparents but i was a little upset they didn't come. I am very blessed to have grandparents that are so great. My grandmother has always been a little hard on me which I see where my mom gets it from, but she has always been fair though and I love her for that eventhough I don't always show it sometimes. After the lunch though we all got some time to watch my nephew colin be himself and he really came out of his shell that afternoon. I truly cherish all the time I have with him. We played together in the leaves in grandma's yard and he had such a ball with it. I am sure my sister will be posting lots of pictures of him through the holidays. As the day was closing me and my mom headed back home and we were talking about christmas gifts and what everyone was going to get and as I was reading through my dad's list, one thing really opened my eyes. On his list he wrote something that touched me, he wanted more time with his children and grandchild. It really hit me hard for some reason reading that and made me think. We should all step back and really focus on what are priorties are. Family should ALWAYS come first and make sure you spend as much time with them as you can because tomorrow is never guaranteed. Live for the day at hand. You are always going to face difficult situations in life but you can always count on your family to pull you through those times. Give thanks for everything you have in your life! I know I am.

Office Politics

It's been awhile since i have posted anything, but i haven't really had anything to talk about lately but this topic has been intriguing me lately. Since i have been working in corporate america the past 2 1/2 years i have noticed that no matter what you do, management is going to find some way to screw you over in more ways then one. Obviously this year has not been a good one for my company due to economy issues as much as they want to say thats not an excuse, well let's face the facts, when EVERY customer of yours is NOT shipping, what can you do? Well the management answer is "Why haven't we had business to replace the down ones?" Well let's look at that question, if we had business to replace it, then we would be up this year and it wouldn't matter about the current customers that are down. If everyone is this country is Cutting jobs, then obviously they aren't going to be producing much and in return they won't have anything to ship. Its a vicious cycle. Why can't they just face the facts and realize the ECONOMY SUCKS!!! No instead they think there is something internal we can do, like analyze EVERY single productivity number you can possibly imagine and figure out where we can move people around to make things better and since your move your numbers are going to be down till you get adjusted to your new area which takes a good 3 months to settle in, and then oh wait "they well we think you will be a better fit with this area," but don't worry you will be taken care of at the end of year. So now the end of the year comes and they (management) finally faces the fact and see's are numbers are even worse and will try and still pay there employees. So what do they do, they give you stock instead of your bonus which doesn't vest for 5 years and then you can touch the shares till 2 years after that so that's 7 years you won't even see that money. OH and then if you leave the company during this period or get fired, your stock is forfeited. What kind of crock of BS is that? Which is basically saying to me "we don't have the money so here is an IOU that will pay you in 7 years" Which if i remember a couple months ago is what took down the financial sector because everyone bought stuff on credit and the trust that they would pay them back. I swear it never surprises me....well i guess that's it for now,

God Bless