Kevlar...

Lay Down...

Annoying...*

Employers aren't really sure what you're doing at work, but they're pretty sure you're not working enough.

Ask some companies why we're so unproductive, and they'll probably have a survey to identify the problem and a product to fix it. For a company that makes sound management equipment, too much noise is to blame. For information management company, we all suffer from crippling information overload. For ethics training company, we're distracted by frequent ethical lapses.

Shopping for a mail-order bride, drinking vodka, watching Netflix, Sports, or attempt to control others, sabotaging another employee's car tires and sending "inappropriate pictures" to other employees.  Many consider these interactions are the most cause of waste of time, 75 % of all time wasted is the Internet, Meetings, annoying coworkers.

Managers blamed such unproductive behavior for lower work quality, low morale and revenue losses. Nearly three in four employers had put into place new policies to curb productivity killers, including blocking certain websites and banning personal cell phone use.  

Some of the results, like Internet browsing, line up with what managers said, but others, like "dealing with annoying bosses," didn't show up in the managers' reports.

Employees don't seem to think they spent quite as much time gossiping or texting as their managers seem to imagine and managers likely didn't view their interactions with employees as time wasters.

Using scheduled break times,  scheduled "play" breaks or short walks to increase productivity. This may not do away with unnecessary meetings or keep a co-worker from slashing your tires, but it's a good start.  

Nooo...*

Sexy...*

Forget sexy abs. what's your credit score?
With 70 percent of marriages ending in divorce due to financial disagreements, those looking for a partner are increasingly popping the big question: What is your credit score?

Banks, landlords, insurance companies, employers and even Internet providers have been relying on this three-digit calculation to measure a person's character and decide if they want to take a risk on you.

Niem Green, founder of CreditScoreDating.com,
"It was my job to determine if there would be a relationship between the bank and the borrower based on their credit score," . "And started to notice there were similar patterns between the scores and the personalities I meet. I just thought, what would happen if people were able to date this way?"

More than three out of four Americans in a committed relationship prefer a partner who is good with money over one who is physically attractive.  These days it's much more attractive to be an 800 than a perfect 10.

When someone's responsible financially, that really says a lot about them,"  "And being financially irresponsible says a lot about them, too."

So, have your abs and your high credit score in top shape or.. Stay Single.

The Maid...*

No-Fly...*

The highly paid proffetinal s at the State Dept would like to change the regiem of poor countries in the Middle East. They want to create Democracy, freedom of speech and expression, Just like the USA. On that idea, we are taking action in Iraq, Syria, Libya, Egypt, etc.
The issue here is that the people of these countries don't want the American Life and experience. They prefer women to be what they are today. They see everything as religious.

Their education is not much so is their economics.  So let us not use fake reason to occupy and destroy these countries, or support bad elements within. We helped Al Qaida against the Russian... And we're helping similar groups today. Just a thought.

Happened again...

17 people lost their lives in a mass shooting at a South Florida. More than a dozen others were injured in the Valentine's Day rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. The suspect, a former student, was arrested.

Bother...

Refreshing...

Tom Ashbrook, the longtime host of NPR’s syndicated radio show On Point, has been fired by Boston station WBUR-FM. An internal review by Boston University, the station’s operator, confirmed claims made late last year that he had created an abusive work environment. 

Ashbrook, who has hosted the daily two-hour morning news and analysis program for 16 years, had been on leave since the allegations emerged in December.

The university said it had conducted two separate reviews after allegations were made by 11 former staffers claiming Ashbrook “created a work environment that included verbal assaults, intimidating actions, consistent bullying, and unwanted touching.” A second probe, conducted by a law firm, determined that the alleged unwelcome conduct was not sexual in nature, and was not sexual harassment under BU’s Title IX polices.

He was fired but not for sexual allegation.  Time to skip sexual harassment, the Media is obsessed with, into the many other violations.