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Winning with Wellness or Leaning towards Lip Service?

February 24, 2014 ♦

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Winning with Wellness or Leaning towards Lip Service? Workplace wellness programs can vary from an inexpensive employee based program, "Hey Fred, are you leading the walking group today?" to the other extreme of investing in new construction featuring large wellness buildings, gyms and even basketball courts at a workplace. But…

Does Stress Increase Productivity?

September 17, 2013 ♦

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Does Stress Increase Productivity? Of course not. Why do we associate relaxation with laziness? Why do we associate mindful relaxation with a lack of productivity? How will we ever be able to decrease stress in our lives without rethinking and re-framing this? Mindful relaxation is not Television watching, Wine or…

Courage, Confidence and Crabs

July 19, 2013 ♦

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Courage, Confidence & Crabs I can't do it for you! Do you have the courage and confidence to embark on your journey of health and wellness? Do you have the courage and confidence to ignore your unsupporters (crabs)? Do you have the courage and confidence to reassuring your entourage (friends and family)…

Packets getting Preferred treatment on the shortest Path to the Port

June 3, 2011 ♦

NerdNotes for Engineers

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The internet sends information over the wire or wireless (email, browsing, video games, porn, etc.) broken up into tiny packets. If your packets don't arrive quickly and in perfect health..what you see on your monitor takes longer to load or arrives looking broken or with an error. Internet performance testing…

7 Dead Friends on LinkedIn

May 27, 2011 ♦

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I have a few dead friends on LinkedIn.. Sure I could delete them..but they are like virtual Memorials ....like when you see an emotional mountain of flowers piled up near a streetlight off the freeway and you know there must have been a fatality there. We were all in tech,…

OOH That Smell…Is that Perfume or Anaphylaxis ?

April 8, 2011 ♦

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I'll be the first to admit, that I am guilty of bringing the exotic fruit Durian into the office and having my coworkers freak out thinking the smell was a gas leak and almost evacuating the second floor and calling the gas company. Yes I know we all remember that..LOL.…

Its Not Easy Being Green!

March 17, 2011 ♦

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Can we really Green up our cube? Did you know that NASA recommends plants for cleaning the air? There are two socially accepted plants for today's workplace based on NASA studies; Bamboo and Spiderplants. This may surprise you but I'm going to recommend having one or two dead plants in…

Please Pay for your Balls

February 19, 2011 ♦

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Got balls? Not every company has a PA system, and when they do it can be a belly fat producing stress hormone generating tradgedy, or not-so-often, a source of great amusement. I worked at a telecom company that had personal trainers and group exercise classes, free clothing and lots of…

Presenteeism; Adults go to Work when they are Sick…duh

January 27, 2011 ♦

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Presenteeism; Adults go to Work when they are Sick...duh Presenteeism is/means coming to work when you're sick. Well why would you stay home and burn a vacation day if you can get paid for being sick? Far too true to be amusing....and even grosser if you ponder that nobody really…