Radar O'Reilly and the Company Bus
By Ray Shay
8.5.14
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| Company Bus |
OK, I get it. If your Google, Qualcomm or even NASA, it is all about the performance of your employees and who you have on your bus. Are your employees friendly, professional, and are they the best in the business? If not, why even pull out of the parking lot?
I found out our company bus has a little communication glitch and I don't think it is the public address system. I have come to the realization that I may be the problem.
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| Radar O'Reilly of MASH |
This became evident recently when Gretchen, our Office Manager at our 4S Ranch Community Hub location recognized a company need, made arrangements to handle it, and then told me so at the very moment I asked her to correct the problem.
I felt like Colonel Potter of MASH as I looked into her crystal blue eyes and said, "way to go, Radar O'Reilly!" Gretchen crinkled her nose and slightly squinted her eyes as she looked at me with a clearly perplexed look on her face and said, "Radar O'who?"
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| The Amazing Vulcan Mind Meld |
I immediately thought what my nine year old son seems to be saying lately, "Oh my gosh." Earlier in the week, Kevin at
our PQ Hub was training a new employee and I suggested implementing the very effective and time proven interstellar telepathic exchange of information technique called, "The Vulcan Mind Meld"
I reminded Kevin how it is accomplished by placing four fingers from my right hand to my face just like Leonard Nimoy did hoping that would spark a memory and convey how he could exchange the information to the new employee. It was to no avail. He just stared at me. I think Kevin was speechless. He gave me the same confused look as Gretchen. I am confident they all probably think I am a lune.
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| Boston |
At our company wide meeting with about a dozen people present we talked about Pinterest, Twitter, Facebook, drone technology, international marketing and all the other modern, fancy and cutting edge stuff. I was excited that everyone was on the same page.
I wrapped up the meeting letting everyone know that Theresa and I would be off the grid tonight because we were, "going to see Boston tonight."
The older employees responded "how cool" while at the same time, several younger ones asked, "you guys are flying to Boston tonight?"
I just had to laugh. I took the time to explain there is actually a rock band called "Boston" and they were playing at Humphrey's at the Bay, in San Diego. I think one of our favorite bands had it right as the words of one of their iconic rock songs explained, "Don't look back, the dawn is breaking ..."
I think we will just keep the company bus rolling forward.
Have a great week.
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