Rude person experience?
If somebody is being a jerk to you for no reason it fairly is in all probability by way of fact they want to get an advance out of you. So particular, it may pay off in which you at the instant are not giving them what they want by skill of being impolite. I observed a quote on an illustration the different day that pronounced, "He who angers you controls you". i think of there is quite some fact in that. while i became lots youthful and worked at an off web sitecontinual by using for a economic business enterprise we had a woman that became so undesirable that on each occasion she got here throughout the time of the line each physique could run to the bathing room and the final individual could could desire to handle her. She could have dissimilar deposits that have been purely in a bag with a random decision of money and he or she could on no account write down her exchange order. She'd purely yell at you once you asked in regards to the extra money interior the bag. additionally, she'd on no account push the "talk" button, she'd wave her hands around and yell. Sound would not return and forth that nicely by using bullet data glass. huge soreness interior the ***. Being well mannered to her did no longer exchange something, yet what we did do became flow fairly sluggish and waste as lots of her time as available. Immature i comprehend, yet you're taking the victories you may get.
I need advice on personal finances when im a stay at home mom and my husband owns his own business?
I totally understand. I've been a stay home mom for about 6 years now. To be honest, I wouldn't have it any other way, though- I think the sometimes lonliness, and dealing with all the repitition, and not getting any recognition are just the price you pay, just like any other job has down sides. In other jobs you deal with a bad boss, bad co-workers, feeling underpaid, underappreciated, get sick of the alarm clock & the office politics, and asking for time off.... every job will have down sides. So just try to see it that way a little more, instead of it being 'wrong' because you don't love it & aren't exquisitely happy 100% of the time. I'd HATE to go back to having a boss, waking up to an alarm clock while it's still dark out, needing permission to take a vacation... eww! :) The main things I've discovered is that you just need to have things for yourself every day. Make sure you exercise every day (and make your hubby support it, if you can't squeeze it in during nap time or something). Read every day to enrich your mind (or it'll turn to mush & you'll start feeling like an idiot). Get yourself up & ready & plan things to get out most days. Do something Spiritual. Have a few hobbies that you can dive into during naptime, or after bedtime. Have at least a few nights or Saturdays per month where there's a girls' time out. I have a volleyball group twice a month, and a couple of church ladies' group things I get out to, and it's a total refresher; or even just getting out shopping by yourself on a Saturday. Make sure your hubby supports this kind of thing & you explain how important it is for you to get recharged. And DEFINITELY use your flexible schedule to serve others whenever you can. If you want to feel good about yourself, you help someone else. And there's always that quote, "If you want to find yourself, lose yourself in service to others." P.S.- Winter is just really hard, too. I always get depressed come February or so. Once it's warm & you start getting outside you'll probably perk right back up. Don't let yourself get sucked too deep into self pity or lonliness. Plan more play dates and invite more people over for lunches & stuff. :)
I manage a startup company in the valley. My only employee is great, but he's also a new father, which means leaving work between 6 and 7 pm. I understand him, but it's hard that the commitment lasts for work hours only. What would you do as a CEO?
When I lived with my grandma rent free back in the early half of 2011, I started to work for an underfunded startup that was waiting for their investment to come in any day now. That any day now took around six months and the investment was only for a quarter of what was expected, but that is beside the point. Every day, my boss would call me after work at 7pm, 9pm, 11pm. Actually it did not matter what time it was after hours, he would call. He always wanted to talk for over an hour and discuss the business, his relationship with his girlfriend and the problems they were having, what he expected of me at work, how much equity he would give me and all these other random conversations that did not matter at all. Reflecting back on the situation, I do not know why I did not turn off my phone when I went home. Actually, I should have just stopped paying my phone bill so I would never have to answer my phone again. This is one of the main reasons I do not give out my phone number nor answer most of my incoming calls anymore. Well, answering those calls at night and talking about business after I left work actually cut into my productivity during the hours I was at work. I would wake up tired or exhausted and my work activity would not nearly be as good as it would have been if I was well rested. Plus, it took away from the time that I had spent doing things in my personal life, like ummm... Watch TV. Nevermind. I was not doing anything with my personal life at that time, but it still took away from my productivity. Normally, I work like a stallion and get things done. However, the drag of answering all those calls to talk business cut into my productivity. It took a deep, hard cut into it, to the point where I was working at the productivity level of a donkey. Eeyaw! If I take a project home, I am doing it by choice to get it done for tomorrow, so we can make it better when I get into the office tomorrow. I am not taking it home by force, or it will come out as a huge mess and will require everyone's combined effort to create into a viable project. It is kind of like pushing two steps back in order to move one step forward. In other words, just let him split his passions in two. It does no harm to your business, nor does it do harm to his family. Each person understands what their expectations are, both in the work place and at home. Let their personal life be and work on building the business together within the work hours you are given.
I am very rude to my mom. She annoys me a lot and I get very harsh with her by saying curse words. What should I do? Am I a terrible person?
No you aren't terrible, but do I suspect you are a teen.When puberty hits, it can become very hard to accept the kind of parenting your mom is accustomed to giving you.Your body is full of new hormones that can cause confused and emotional feelings. This can really be difficult for you to control.As a parent and foster parent for 20+ years, I learned a lot about teens.Usually teens react before they think about it m, when they are emotional. And emotions run very close under your skin and you probably haven't learned how to control your emotional outbursts yet.In your moms side, it may seem like just last week that she had a lovely sweet child who wanted to make her happy more than anything else. This child gave kisses and hugs and sat on her lap saying “I love you, mommy” all the time. The thing this child wanted more than anything else was to play with mommy.Then you entered puberty. Intellectually, your mom may know this. But that doesn't mean she understands who this new, angry child is! What happened to her loving sweet child?Mom will eventually get it. But the more you act out, the harder it will be for both of you.You can make a big start in getting along better by letting mom know you are also troubled by your behavior. On a day when you're mellow, talk to her. Don't pick a time when she's doing 10 other things-if mom works she's really busy after work and very stressed with all the things that have to be done. Maybe later in the evening, help get with dishes or something she usually does alone-volunteer, don't sulk or be a jerk.Talk reasonably to mom about what's going on. Give her a hug and accept the one she wants to give you back. Maybe show her your Quora question and talk about the answers you've been given.Mom can be your biggest supporter, but when you're mean to her she won't want to trust you. You'll lose more by being mad and acting out.You've received several good answers and nayve you'll get more. Take them to heart.
Driving for work and car breaks down?
I start work at 8AM. At 9 AM my boss had me go run some errands for her, during the errands my car broke down. My question is, what laws apply to this? Do I stop getting my hourly wage at any point while I get my car towed and make my way back to work? This happened yesterday and I don't know what to expect. I basically missed 2 hours of work and I'm wondering if since my car broke down while driving for work what is the correct thing to do? My boss and I already talked about it and neither of us know what to do. She actually mentioned that I should get my pay for the whole time but I just want to do what's right. Does anyone know the law? This is California too! Any info would be appreciated, thanks!
How would you politely tell your employer that you cannot run a personal errand for him?
If you're working for a small company chances are that is what they will expect of you. The next time they ask, tell them you won't unless they reimburse you for mileage. If their answer is "no reimbursement", tell them "no errand". ...and if they happen to ask why, just tell them that they can't use your car for their personal or company business for free. My boss approached me once about that. I told him I would if he would pay for 2 full tanks of gas, lunch, mileage, and lost wages out of his own pocket. I didn't think my request was unreasonable since his errand required me to travel 550 miles round trip causing me to lose a full day of work. He didn't want to pay so I didn't go. ...altho the day off from work would've been nice. lol He wanted me to go pick up some computer equipment he won from an online government auction.
What does it mean work on your business, not in your business? What is an explanation it?
Haha, this actually refers to entrepreneurship, particularly small business. As business owner you are faced with many responsibilities from building your product, packaging, securing logistics, marketing, billing, litigious errands, accounting, hiring, interviewing, training, hr, maintenance… I like to explain it as a front end versus back end. You can spend your time in the front end such as selling your product, attending client’s homes, completing repairs, building your handcrafted products, etc… anything that is considered as a good or service delivered and billable. While BACKEND is running your business’ operations such as accounting, hr, logistics, marketing, etc…all the non-value adding factors in production, overhead. Additional side info: Some businesses have more overhead than others, accounting should reflect this and as business owner you should select the method that best fits your needs… accrual vs cash basis for example. Also your production method should reflect this, some companies apply the lean manufacturing which allows you to spend more time in the front-end of the business rather than the backend by producing or manufacturing only as needed. This helps because it saves you money which means less pressure on driving more sales to stay cut even and less raw good orders and inventories… Hope that helped!I am an international business coach, web designer and marketer. If you need help in any of these 3 areas feel free to visit Creative Business Coaching
Delivery People: What has been the strangest experience you've encountered on the job?
This isn't Delivery so excuse me if it's little off topic. It was on the job though.Between the Military and the Postal service I worked in a 4 star restaurant in old Tampa Florida in the 70's. It was famous for steaks . The kitchen staff was largely made up of people from other countries.The kitchen staff that barely knew English would write slogans like "Down with the Shaw!" on walls. Many were Iranian.It was a common and accepted practice for people to take a barely eaten steak when it came back and put it on the grill for a couple of minutes to kill any germs and eat it. Not my practice but theirs. I could see their point. These were fifty dollar or more aged steaks!I happened to come upon a really nice steak that was overcooked untouched and refused by a customer and sent back. (I like my steaks medium well. )The waiter gave it to me. It was was uneaten and I asked the cook to store it above the charcoal grill until I went for my lunch. Oh! What a lunch that would be!Well when the time came for this delectable delight The steak was gone! I asked around no one seemed to know where it went so I had my complimentary steak burger steak fries and coffee.The French fries were fried in beef fat they were so unhealthy but so good! And the coffee was ground and roasted every day.About an hour later a plate heaped high with steaks arrived at my station and a nearly non speaking person apologized profusely. Now I realize the gentleman was a Muslim and stealing is severely punished in his country!I knew where the steak came from since they were different sizes and types. I realized were "harvested" from bussed tables. But I thanked him and not to offend him I took a few bites anyway. After he left I threw the steaks away. Ugh!It was uncomfortable to say the least!However while I was there I tasted Don Peron champagne and numerous wines including a bottle of 300 dollar wine that came back. Customers don't normally drink from a bottle in a restaurant like that! But alas no more "used " steak! I've seen a lot of strange things in life but this stands out. :-)THank you. MB
What is the most disgusting thing you’ve seen in someone’s fridge?
My oldest grandsons dorm refrigerator!After the end of school year I went to Eugene ( go Beavs!) to haul him and his stuff back to Portland.I’d bought him a personal dorm refrigerator for high school graduation and it had been left in his dorm room for 2 years. He’d decided to join a Fraternity and had to move everything home and then back before school.Of course he hadn’t even started to pack up when I got there so we went and got a truck full of boxes from the liquor store and I picked up a pack of paper towels and bottle of Mr Clean to tidy things up. He was supposed to leave the room clean.While he was packing I opened the refrigerator.It is one of those small rectangular ones about as tall as a carry on piece of luggage and maybe 14” deep. It was stuffed full of containers and tubs of rotting food. I commandeered one of the boxes after deciding I really didn’t need trash bags and rubber gloves and began hauling stuff out.It stank out loud. And the light had burned out so I couldn’t see what I was doing. Besides it was in a corner and on the floor-just awkward for a woman with bad knees to work in.As I got to the back of the refrigerator my hand went deep into something squishy. Yuck.I washed off my hand with the Mr Clean and told my grandson he would have to remove the rest of the garbage ( that’s what it was, a cold garbage storage container, not a refrigerator) because it was grossing me out.He hauled out a half eaten large family sized Stouffers Chicken Pot Pie sitting on a soggy paper plate. The entire thing was covered in mold and crawling with maggots. As was everything else left open in the fridge.I really was tempted to just throw the refrigerator away. But after it was empty I sprayed half the bottle of Mr Clean, shut the door and went and scrubbed my hands.He finished the cleaning.I thought maggots wouldn’t develop in a refrigerator. Apparently if the flies lay eggs while the food sits out for a week they can.I don’t even want to think about why he would put something, that had been sitting on his desk for a week, into the refrigerator!I was dumb at 19 but not that dumb. It was hard for me to believe that at 19 I had a baby to take care of and my grandson couldn’t even feed himself safely.