I was in Joann's waiting to get the pink tulle cut. They have a "take a number" system, and I pulled #8 out of the dispenser, and rocked back on my heels. Darling kid, maybe eight years old, comes up to me and says "Here--have #7." My guess was that she'd been playing with it to somehow explain the extra ticket. When they called my number (7), the woman next to me said "Oh! I didn't know there were numbers." So I handed her #8 so she'd be next up after me.
By the time I got to the checkout, there was something in the crap they line the queue with that looked like an alternative to what I'd picked up in the store. So I stopped and evaluated it, and then went back into the line. In the time while I'd been doing that, a woman have moved past me, and she said "You were ahead of me--you just stopped to look at something--go on ahead" but I told her to keep the spot. It was no biggie.
The last full time job I had each department did things differently and considering how small the office was there was disparity in certain situations.
Like one manager gave her staff gifts. My boss didn't, I was told "because it would be too expensive", yet I was expected to contribute to a gift for him. For Chrimstas and his birthday and for Boss's day (at least contribute for cake on Boss's Day) and Admin Professional's Day was not observed in anyway, shape, or form.
It was like working for a really dysfunctional family.
The place before that - the admin staff gave cards and gifts among each other but it wasn't anything expensive - usually something homemade. And we didn't give our bosses anything.
My office just got our first (and last?) holiday swag -- a nice box of snacks from the headhunter we use. I was just bemoaning the fact that we don't have any vendors, so don't get any treats!
I can't actually think of a random act of kindness, so I'll try to do something later.....
I can't actually think of a random act of kindness, so I'll try to do something later.....
I think Good Stuff totally counts
That's not a random act! Now it's just maintenance.
but it makes people happy, and some of them are even people you don't know!
Totally
counts
Our division chips in on a goat through Heifer International in lieu of cards and gifts to each other. And that was the last act of kindness I participated in, although as I've been doing it for the past four years its not really random.
I'm making brownie cookies later in a random act of kindness for my family. And, um, me.
I have a question about scientific reporting. IO9 is pretty resoundingly crap at it--often the articles are based on the abstract and I can find more information than that in a ten minute search. The primary writer who does this is also pretty crappy with numbers in general and stats in specific, and flippantly conflates groups in ways that are at best, damaging to the strength of his argument, and at worst pretty deeply offensive.
Now, when he writes an article like this, titled...ahah! The shithead just changed the title. It used to be "Scientists confirm that homosexuality is not genetic but it arises in the womb", but now they've stricken "confirm" and replaced it with "claim"--that was my entire question--I don't see how this can possibly be definitively proven by just what was written, but I guess he got properly called on it (he's responded to me with "don't cares" when I point out that his language is implying untruths, but he just has no shame) I imagine someone on staff called him on this, because he ignores commenters.
