Mar

Phrase of the Day

Posted by cee Published in Words @ Work

Poor planning on your side should not create an emergency on mine.”
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Mar

Get SMART

Posted by cee Published in Daily Grind

Every year, millions of employees are forced to make goals for fiscal years/calendar years/or just for fun.
We are encouraged to make “S.M.A.R.T.” goals… because apparently regular ones just aren’t good enough.
For those of you unfamiliar with the “S.M.A.R.T.” goal, it’s an acronymn:
S – Specific
M -Measurable
A – Attainable
R - Realistic
T - Timely
Personally, I think Attainable & Reasonable are [...]

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Mar

The Boy Who Cried “Exclamation Point!!!!111!!!”

Posted by cee Published in CubeLand Cronies, Training & Development

We’ve all heard the story of the boy who cried wolf – the one where the villagers didn’t believe the boy because he lied time after time.
Today, I’d like to tell you about the Boy Who Cried “Exclamation Point!!!!”.
The exclamation point in Microsoft Outlook and other popular email programs is strictly reserved for emails of [...]

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Mar

Food Baby

Posted by cee Published in Words @ Work

Food Baby – (n) /food beybee/

A small, but noticeable pooch in the belly area after consuming a lot of food and drink during the lunch hour.

Sentence: “OMG I am soooooo full. I ate soooooo much! Look at me! I have a food baby!” (said while rubbing stomach area)
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Mar

The Power of the Tweet

Posted by cee Published in Randomness

Yesterday evening, I was watching the news when a story came on about companies monitoring Twitter. They aren’t doing it to stalk people, but rather as a customer service tool. They aren’t doing it out of the kindness of their hearts, they are doing it because if 1 person speaks badly about something, it takes [...]

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Mar

Life is soooo not fair!

Posted by cee Published in Life Outside The Box

As a dog owner, I tend to know some of the people in my building because we see each other outside walking our dogs on a pretty regular basis. I don’t know them enough to know their birthdays or life stories, but just enough to say hello to them and their little fur balls by [...]

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Mar

Top 5 Phrases Overheard Today

Posted by cee Published in Analyze This, Friday Five

Today was a very stressful day here at the Present Company, and I was amused by how similar everyone in my office thought. I think it’s one of those things where you just start saying things that you hear others say around you all the time? Either way, it’s nice to know that not too [...]

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Mar

I heart apostrophe’s

Posted by cee Published in Training & Development

We all love the great apostrophe. It is the best invention in language history because it prevents us from having to type out full phrases like “it is” or “have not” or “she will”.
There are some people, however, who abuse the poor apostrophe to no end. They think that adding the ’s to the end [...]

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Mar