Had a very good day at work! Hope everyone else has a good one to.

Ok so I understand peanut allergies and allergies in general can be a pretty damn serious thing. My work has informed me I can no longer eat pineapple in the office. My bosses actually called me into their office to tell me this. The conversation was sooooo absurd! It went something like, "So...we have noticed you have been packing pineapple lately for lunch." All I could think was...you noticed THAT?!! What about all the hard work I do around here???? Yeah that wasn't the strangest part. Then they say, "We believe someone may have an allergy to pineapple and so unfortunately you can't eat it here anymore. Well, unless you want to eat it in the parking lot." Uhhhh...in the parking lot?!! I love how they said someone "MAY" have an allergy. Who is this alleged pineapple person that I offended and are they actually allergic? I of course tell them no problem, I just won't pack it anymore. I am wondering if this is illegal. I have never felt more awkward!!

I held the door open for a delivery man on my way back to the office from lunch the other day. He quickly thanked me and rushed into the lobby wearing bad tempered expression on his face. Now this was particularly hot summer afternoon to be out making deliveries so as far as I was concerned his temperament was well understood.

We both got into the elevator where I thought I’d lighten things up with a bit of small talk. I commented on the weather, of course, and asked him how he was managing the day. I told him he was welcome to stop by our office for a bottled water or soda when he was done making his deliveries. He thanked me and got off the elevator a couple of floors below mine to begin making his first deliveries.

About 15 minutes later I noticed he entered our office lobby to drop off some packages so I grabbed a bottle of cold water out of the fridge and handed it to him. He accepted it a with a strange look and a chuckle so I asked him if everything was okay. He said I was the only friendly person he had encountered on his route that day. He explained most of the people on his route are rude, treat him indifferent, or barely even acknowledge him. He told me this was also an unfortunate experience among the other drivers at his company.

Frankly, I’m not surprised. I don’t think it’s intentional but many of us are just too caught up trying to manage the day to day demands of our work and family responsibilities to be mindful of what the “other guy” is or isn’t experiencing.

But we conduct our business with human beings not inanimate objects, right? Courtesy, empathy, and a little hospitality still goes a long way with people. Companies always emphasize good interpersonal skills as a job requirement to get hired but how many jobs have you worked at where the majority of co-workers and managers treated each other the same way those customers treat that delivery driver. Heck, I’ve been turned down for jobs due to reasons related to “not being a good fit to a company’s culture”. Well, what about those companies that string applicants along a drawn out interview process only to let them know they’re going in another direction or better yet even bother to make any follow-up contact with applicants at all. What does that say about their “company culture”?

Some people might fail to see the relevance common courtesy has on a job until they’re faced with a complex work or personal experience that requires management's intervention, compassion, or empathy. Be mindful of how employees and management interact with you and each other when you’re on company property for an interview. Go out of your way to interact with employees while you're there and ask them how they feel about their departments teamworks efforts, management's engagement practice with individual employees and problem resolution policies.

A few extra steps taken during the company's research step of the job search process will save you from a world of grief a year or two into a job when you discover neither your co-workers or management are looking out for your best interests.

I work with "people" who will (and do) throw me under the bus in a heartbeat to make me look bad and make themselves look better. Especially if THEY were the ones who made a mistake. What should I do??

The most consistent thing that I loved at the Duval County School Board was working with the children! My job as a School Psychologist included a variety of tasks. I evaluated children for Special Education and for the Gifted program (and sometimes both at once). I provided counseling services and helped teachers. I participated in on multi-disciplinary Child Study Teams which included parents or guardians, teachers, guidance counselors, and various other school personnel (based on the individual child's needs). I wrote detailed reports about each evaluation I performed. The teachers and other educational personnel were often great to work with, but as in most jobs there were a few who I did not enjoy working with. The report writing was sometimes challenging but seldom was it a task I loved. On the other hand, almost all of the children were great! For several years I worked with preschoolers and that was my most favorite group. Part of my love for working with the preschoolers was because many of the tasks in the preschool evaluations were presented as play; nothing is more fun than playing with a 3 or 4 year old, especially when you can show them how to do something new! They often became excited and became engrossed in what they were doing.

I loved the people I was working with! They were and ARE a class act! I wish I had worked there earlier in my career so that I might have made it a FULL TIME position, but I joined on late and became a victim of an IT department eventually that got outsourced to Bangladesh.

People at Icon were all too happy to let you know when someone had too many veggies from their garden, so anyone who wanted them was more than welcome to help themselves! Also lots of pizza parties and fun annual holiday events made it a pleasant place to work! I miss it there!

I really love I had working in Bure Trade & Transport office due to 2 reason, !! -That helps to develope my skills ,
-The other one is I have contributed to achieve environmental resilinte Agricualtural production

You will be able to learn so much in hospitality industry and grow each day it's only what you going to make out of it

it was nothing hard about the job. but I want be returning thanks for every thing

When short of man power and a very busy day