I found these flashed cards in a set of drawers being stored in our warehouse, they must have belonged to someone in an HR department. I took all of the negative ones and spread them out on my chair and snapped a picture. I did the same for the positive onesI wondered what type of touchy-feely exercise they could be used in. I imagined "Team Building", "Conflict Resolution". I thought of some guy like me having to endure a talk from an HR specialist, a watered down Skinners "positive reinforcement", a Maslow's "self actualization".
I don't know maybe I'm too cynical, maybe there's a place for all of this new age stuff in business, I just can't help but seeing it as a dog and pony show.
I can smell supper cooking, I'm salivating, Pavlov's "conditioned response".
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i'm with you. i recently had to sit through two days of that kind of stuff—"Achieving Service Excellence" seminar—i even have the certificate to show for it.
i didn't learn much at all. maybe one thing. dog and pony show, yes. i was bored out of my skull and found very little of it useful. and we had to do all those silly kinds of exercise—exactly the kind of thing your little flash cards were for. i could have finished 10 jobs in the time it took me to participate in that training class! ???
i wish i could smell dinner cooking. i'm still 45 minutes from home, so dinner will have to wait.
{p.s. - my day was "accomplished" and "hopeful"}
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