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(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
Showing posts with label Exposed. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Exposed. Show all posts
June 14, 2023
January 6, 2020
Story About Dressing Modestly
The friend of his daughter was wearing one of those cropped shirts which expose the belly.
She said that her dad told her to throw a party for her clothes, so that her shirt could meet her shorts.
I guess all dads worry about the modesty of their daughters.
This was a good tznius story that hammers home the point and is also pretty funny. ;-)
(Credit Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
August 2, 2019
What's Your Relationship?
Level 3: Family/Friends
The highest form of a relationship where you are being authentic (i.e. yourself), you share deeply about yourself (thoughts, feelings, desires, mistakes, etc,) and you are vulnerable.
Level 2: Professionals
The middle level of relationships in which you are seeking to build trust and respect, you share some information (i.e. appropriate), and you expose yourself a little to the other person.
Level 1: Acquaintances
The most elementary of relationships that is superficial in nature, there is little personal sharing of information (i.e. mostly when you are asked a question and you feel comfortable answering it), and you remain guarded.
This is a good way to assess your relationships--is it a level 1, 2, or 3 and are you behaving appropriately within that, so that you trust, communicate, and collaborate effectively. ;-)
(Graphic Credit: Andy Blumenthal)
October 7, 2018
Shame As An Effective Motivator
He was being interviewed by the media.
But the protesters drowned him out with chants of "Shame" and "Shame on you!"
Similar to the series Game Of Thrones, where the evil Queen Cersis must "Take the walk of shame" for sleeping with and having a child with her own brother.
She must walk through the city with all the people yelling "Shame" at her, spitting on her, throwing rotten vegetables at her, etc.
There is no place to hide.
Her hair has been shorn off.
Her clothes have been stripped from her.
Without her clothes and pretense, she is naked, but she is also naked because her soul is bearing her sin before everybody.
This week life imitated art and the protesters stood in judgment over Senator Manchin's decision to vote yes for and support Kavanaugh.
He was surrounded by shame.
It was not meant to be politic, respectful, or open any sort of dialogue, but simply to tear the Senator down and humiliate him for his decision.
I could imagine how he must feel being surrounded by all these people telling him he was a disgrace and that should be completely ashamed of himself.
There seemed no one left to strand up for him, defend him, and let him save face.
I am not saying his decision was right or wrong, just that when seemingly everybody passes judgment on you as evil and a disgrace, there is no where to hide or anyone to defend himself in this mob lynching.
I imagine that this feeling of shame is sort of what happens when we die and we must face everyone we dealt favorably and unfavorably with.
For those who we wronged, the chant of shame echoes through G-d's heavenly court.
There is no place to hide as we must now pay the piper for each and every thing we did or didn't do.
Our deeds are no longer hidden, but exposed for everyone to see.
We cannot pretend to be good when we were not.
The veil and pretense of righteousness disintegrates.
We are exposed for who we really are.
Our true selves and our sins are there in full sight and for which we must bear out our ultimate shame. ;-)
(Source Graphic: Andy Blumenthal)
April 12, 2018
Leave The Bad Bosses Behind
People don't leave jobs, they leave [bad] bosses.It's very interesting and so often true.
Of course, people leave for all sorts of reasons, but one of the most important aspects of job satisfaction for employees is their boss!
When you have a good boss--someone with integrity, good communications, trustworthy, fair, and who empowers, develops, and supports you then that goes a very long way towards positive employee engagement and retention.
However, when the boss is a bad apple and usually everyone knows it, then there is often a mass exit out the organizational door.
Occasionally, the organizational culture is bad too, and that attracts those bad bosses, promotes their bad behavior, and keeps their bad butts in the corner office seats--this situation is even worse because bad culture and people are mutually reinforcing.
For the good people out there, leave the bad bosses behind and never look back. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
April 28, 2016
Take Your Family Issues To Work Day
It's a great idea to bond with our children and share our work life with them.
This way they know what mommy and daddy do and also a little of what work is like.
But one of the funny things I noticed is how uncomfortable most parents seem with their kids around them in at work.
They have this worried and kvetchy look on their face.
They are crossing boundaries between personal/family/home life and professional/work life.
What is at once two-faces, two distinct roles is now combined for a single day a year.
Perhaps personal problems from home and between family members is entering the workspace or the problems of work life is evident to your close family members.
Maybe mommy or daddy really doesn't get along all the well with little Johnny or Rosie all the time or perhaps little Johnny or Rosie is not that perfect little kid you've been showing around in pictures and talking up in the office.
Similarly, mommy or daddy may not be "all that" in the office that they come home and portray to their family about--that big management position and corner office could be just another run of the mill job and situated in a long row of cubicles deep this way and that.
In any case, the barriers are being crossed and even if there have been no outright lies told and caught, different sides of the person that are typically kept separate and sacrosanct are converging and the alternate egos and varied personas come head-to-head.
The good news is that the organization usually gives the parents leeway to not really do any serious work when the kids are around for the day and to mostly schlep them to special kids' events in the workplace--everybody get to meet the CEO and have ice cream?
Thus, the unveiling of dual natures and embedded conflicts is kept to a manageable minimum, if not an uncomfortable merging of work and family life. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
March 2, 2015
Metro Wide Open
What do you think it is?
Lots of electronics, wires, lights--and in front of it and holding the door open is a "caution" pylon.
This is one of the faregates to get into the metro system for the Capital region.
Now how "smart" is it to leave the door wide open to this contraption.
Usually the basics of physical security is gates, guards, and guns--in this case, the gates part is broken.
The Department of Homeland Security was provided another week of funding to work out the immigration mess pitting Congress against the President...
But even with DHS still up and running, security is looking a little too wide open again. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
December 6, 2014
Dress With Air Conditioning
This lady in Florida is wearing a dress that is closed/covered up in front, but open--except for these threads, literally--in the behind.
I am fairly sure this was not cheap and someone definitely put a lot of thought into designing it.
It certainly gets some attention as it's a little unexpected.
Anyway, she was actually a very nice lady who helped me with some ties.
A good dresser too. ;-)
(Source Photo: Andy Blumenthal)
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