There's one person at work with a line in her email signature that states, "God is in Control." Part of me can't help but be offended by this. But it's not the message that bothers me. Although I disagree somehwat strongly, I have no problem with her thinking that. Mostly I just feel it a terribly inappropriate place for the message.
Yet I also can't help but wonder if some part of the annoyance might stem from feeling I couldn't get away with such a statement from my own perspective.
But what would I say? From time to time I toy with the "we don't inherit the Earth, we borrow it from our children" quote on the side. But if I find it inappropriate for her to put her message there, is mine any different? Or is an environmental statement different than a religious one?
If I were to say something to HR, I have little doubt that they would say something to her and that message would go away. Woudl anyone find my little quote offensive if I included one?
But I probably won't say anything to HR, although they do strongly encourage people to speak up on even little things. It just feels like unnecessary meddling. It isn't my way to interfere with things that only bother me. Then again, I too often just don't interfere at all. I can admit I don't know where to draw that line. I just don't know if this is the place to start...
Today at lunch I had the personal laptop out, writing. Some things I just don't feel right doing on the company laptop. Like writing.
One of the guys walked past and noticed.
"Writing a book?" he asks.
"Yes," I say.
"Really??" he asks as if he doesn't believe.
"Yeah," I say. It seemed to take about half the subsequent conversation for him to really accept it.
It doesn't bother me that he was surprised by it. But I can't help but wonder what his conception of me included instead...
HR at work got a resume from someone who's a specialist in extracting gelatin from catfish and finding new, innovative uses for it....
Now there's a transferable skill...right??
A couple of years ago I had searched online for a 3D modeling program. All I could find were limited demos of hard-to-figure-out programs.
Recently I again found myself really wishing I had something, so I decided to try again. "Good luck!" Amy said.
It took me longer to download than to find, but even that under five minutes. As it was downloading, I thought to myself, I should have seen this coming.
It's by Google and lets you build 3D objects and import them into Google Earth. I like Google. Good folk over there, I think.