Appreciating others

Today, when I replied via email to someone who was forgiving me for the umpteenth month in a row for being late on my radiation swipes, I said, "you did a GREAT job in your presentation yesterday" and I got an incredibly appreciative response about how she had trouble presenting before audiences and it was so hard for her.

I knew that. From her presentation, it was clear that she had stage fright. But she did it, and I knew it was hard for her.

Heh. Heh. I have earned 12 more months of forgiveness for my tardiness in submitting radiation swipe results.

Okay, reserve me a seat on the bus to Hell for recognizing someone's weakness and giving them a boost on it for my own personal laxness.

I encourage you all to send a message to someone today who did something good.

A couple of years ago I sent an email, took me a couple of minutes, to the boss of a service person saying they did something extraordinary and good. To this day, I receive REALLY REALLY great responsiveness and service from this person.

You get an extraordinary payback from the public and sometimes to-the-boss appreciation of others. It is the best thing I have found. Very little cost, amazing results.

I recommend it highly, and I challenge you all to give unsolicited positive feedback to someone this week.

Always nice to get a pat on the back or a good job from someone.

One of the toughest things in the workplace to find, is often appreciation. Especially in an era when the jerks seem to feel the need to present themselves more often.

Kinda tough too, because so many people cant appreciate being appreciated or they look for it too often.

It's kind of like those who cant tell the difference between being co-workers and being friends.
Like just working with someone makes you their "buddy" or "pal" Or "Friend" because they are inable to handle the fact that there are people (lots and lots and lots of them) who actually go to work to just do their job, keep things prety much on a work relationship basis and go their own way after work.

It seems as if those are often the ones who seek the "good job" thing more often instead of just being happy with getting one here and there. Like maybe they have a sort of inferiority complex that forces them to need to be friends with everyone they work with. Like it's some sort of slight to them that some of their co-works really just aren't that interested in their day to day lives.

So, I think you have a good point Dulc. A well placed and timed "nice job" or well done" or something can be a very effective tool in the workplace. Might even make you feel a little better about yourself if you do that every so often and try not to be one of those "shit talker" types.

If you do it too much, it loses meaning. (the good job thing)

<font color="#FFFFAA" size="1">[ September 22, 2005 09:16 AM: Message edited by: cincygreg ]</font>

I don't know about that, but check this out:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/22/in...erland&emc=rss


What's next- Six Flags over the Tigris?


Gimme a break....

Since Trav is out of town, I suppose I'm the resident bigot. All I can say about that Barbie is OMG.

I'm not a religious scholar, but it's my understanding that the religions that use prayer mats (1) hate Western culture and (2) don't allow the women to pray. Cause we wimmins is just good for poppin out the babies and being punching bags.

To pull this back OT, let me just say that I truly appreciate all of Jumper's posts about the end of Western Civilization. With that kind of Barbie crap being marketed and purchased, we all have to accept that this IS the end times.

Walking around with your eyes closed may cause you to bump into things.

You probably wouldnt appreciate that. LOL!

I appreciate appreciation, but only when it's genuine.

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To pull this back OT, let me just say that I truly appreciate all of Jumper's posts about the end of Western Civilization. With that kind of Barbie crap being marketed and purchased, we all have to accept that this IS the end times.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Well, it's kind of a bittersweet your welcome but you have to admit, pretty much everything I've said will happen has happened.

It's pretty obvious....one only need open their eyes.