"You will never make it to the top, if you do not study. Or do you ever wanna get to the top"
I kind of have heard those sentences a little too often if you ask me.
Technically I already have studied and, honestly, I am quite fed up with so many people not understanding the value behind the apprenticeship I was allowed to enjoy.
So anyways. I take the signs I get and find out myself if the sign seriously fit in my plans.
As HR chick, I should consider three main programms: Business Admin, Int'l Business Communications or Psychology.
Now I have always been into Psychology. But I also remember all the teachers I had back at school who had studied psychology...and quite frankly, they were creepy to me. Yes, I am kind of blocked about this.
I also checked the programm curriculum from Int'l Business Communications and I found it to be a written déjàvu...just that the price for it would be quite a menace raging in my wallet. So technically not worth it. And Business Admin....thanks, but no thanks...it couldnt be more years of administration being crammed but not applied.
Since I am more the type that sees more value in work-experience than in degrees I am not really able to see a winning point for myself from studying as of now. Considering me handling a household on my own and my personal doll-monster depending on me just pulls me more away from the idea of studying.
So all in all. I actually feel contradicting my motto and attitude towards judging qualities, especially mine.
What to study?! How about work life right now.
If so however, I probably will pick Int'l Business Communication before I will open up a vocational college in 20 years....maybe.
Aloha,
Nan
28.12.2012
20.12.2012
Sick Leave making you sick
Since my family is German-American I every now and then get to talk to an aunt.
The other day she told me she couldn't take days off since she had to use vacation-days for her sick leave. As German and especially as worker in Germany I wasn't much surprised about how the labor market in the US is handling such subject. However, I have to admit I was kind of disappointed that nothing has changed much.
In Germany, by law you will get paid the first 42 days sick by your employer. After that ones Medical Insurance is paying a certain percentage of the workers gros.
See the U.S. Department of Labour stated on its website:
"Sick Leave
The other day she told me she couldn't take days off since she had to use vacation-days for her sick leave. As German and especially as worker in Germany I wasn't much surprised about how the labor market in the US is handling such subject. However, I have to admit I was kind of disappointed that nothing has changed much.
In Germany, by law you will get paid the first 42 days sick by your employer. After that ones Medical Insurance is paying a certain percentage of the workers gros.
See the U.S. Department of Labour stated on its website:
"Sick Leave
Currently, there are no federal legal requirements for paid sick
leave. For companies subject to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA),
the Act does require unpaid sick leave. FMLA provides for up to 12
weeks of unpaid leave for certain medical situations for either the employee or
a member of the employee's immediate family. In many instances paid leave may
be substituted for unpaid FMLA leave.Employees are eligible to take FMLA leave if they have worked for
their employer for at least 12 months, and have worked for at least 1,250 hours
over the previous 12 months, and work at a location where at least 50 employees
are employed by the employer within 75 miles."
It couldn't be more complicated and actually more unfair for workers from smaller companies. And it could not be easier for employers to avoid having to pay for sick leave all along...
Vacation days should not be wasted for sick leave...vacation is vacation and not sickation. Certainly, a sick leave can make you even more sick (of it) in this case..
aloha
04.12.2012
No time for "bitchassness" or how to deal with the Shens in our (work) life
Since most companies do not hold employees of the ages 16-24 - and no, even Hollister does not - one should expect as HR-er and co-worker in general that within a company of grown ups there would not be any "he-said-she-said" nor "bitchassness" as Sean Combs aka Diddy (expiration date of this artist name tbd) created a noun for a bad attitude.
So while most people concerned with this matter might have dug up some books on amazon I have learned the very lesson myself with co-workers as well and am fairly ready to give some advise.
As my mom would always say, first of all, stay cool, man!
Yer, she is kind of cool - btw, if you have any questions on how to handle state departments via mail, she is your woman to go to ;)
When I was younger i was not, instead I, as employee, allowed it to make others kind of reign over me, especially in regard to the workload I was given, and boy, they sure kept giving. But also emotionally. In the end I found myself suffering from migraene like headaches with the weirdest symptoms for months.
Still having my head in work and thinking of what my supervisor and co-workers think of me I got forced to take a time out. I became a Diddys Dirty Moneys music junkie then.
Funnily, listening to the tunes that are all about heartbrake and co I figured my pain might stop if I put up a wall (which believe me is kinda hard to do at work) or you give up on trying to comfort them and start with YOURself.
As of now, after having read several books such as Zero Limits by Joe Vitales and Ihaleakala Hew Len I am conciously aware of the fact that my problems will only change if I change my own attitude towards the problem.
Oooh how philosophic..booooooooooooring...
I know, but let it melt on your minds' tongue please.
In the meantime, while you're angry at your co-worker or even former co-worker who is rudely trying to cut you from the side still..or back..here is (in German) how Po the Kung Fu Panda deals with bitchassness thrown at him:
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Btw, that peacock named Shen is a perfect symbole for intrigues and a psychological disaster gone mad.
Jokes aside.
So what do you do as HR-er again when you have this kind of mess going on within a group of employees?
Well legally you can warn or fire one or both of them involved, which is very much a reaction out of rage more than it should be out of teaching. As my teacher in college used to say "leading is steering".
Basically, the key solution is appreciation, confrontation, compassion, forgiveness in this very order. Trigger this within the participating parties and the arguement will dissolute.
But hold on, some are just innocent you might claim. Sometimes confrontation is meant as confrontation with the bare truth of reasons. Why does this person react and act this way to you and to the other different. The understanding of it all helps the process as it is with everything human beings have to learn.
Regarding my situation back then. I had decided to pull through with it by staying tough. I understood the possible reasons the co-workers were having to behave the way they did and forgave them as I knew I would not have to deal with it forever and as that that period of time was only that - a period of time.
Happiness is a choice, it is said..there is no time for bitchassness.
thank, forgive, love
aloha
So while most people concerned with this matter might have dug up some books on amazon I have learned the very lesson myself with co-workers as well and am fairly ready to give some advise.
As my mom would always say, first of all, stay cool, man!
Yer, she is kind of cool - btw, if you have any questions on how to handle state departments via mail, she is your woman to go to ;)
When I was younger i was not, instead I, as employee, allowed it to make others kind of reign over me, especially in regard to the workload I was given, and boy, they sure kept giving. But also emotionally. In the end I found myself suffering from migraene like headaches with the weirdest symptoms for months.
Still having my head in work and thinking of what my supervisor and co-workers think of me I got forced to take a time out. I became a Diddys Dirty Moneys music junkie then.
Funnily, listening to the tunes that are all about heartbrake and co I figured my pain might stop if I put up a wall (which believe me is kinda hard to do at work) or you give up on trying to comfort them and start with YOURself.
As of now, after having read several books such as Zero Limits by Joe Vitales and Ihaleakala Hew Len I am conciously aware of the fact that my problems will only change if I change my own attitude towards the problem.
Oooh how philosophic..booooooooooooring...
I know, but let it melt on your minds' tongue please.
In the meantime, while you're angry at your co-worker or even former co-worker who is rudely trying to cut you from the side still..or back..here is (in German) how Po the Kung Fu Panda deals with bitchassness thrown at him:
<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/rleb6Hgh978" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Btw, that peacock named Shen is a perfect symbole for intrigues and a psychological disaster gone mad.
Jokes aside.
So what do you do as HR-er again when you have this kind of mess going on within a group of employees?
Well legally you can warn or fire one or both of them involved, which is very much a reaction out of rage more than it should be out of teaching. As my teacher in college used to say "leading is steering".
Basically, the key solution is appreciation, confrontation, compassion, forgiveness in this very order. Trigger this within the participating parties and the arguement will dissolute.
But hold on, some are just innocent you might claim. Sometimes confrontation is meant as confrontation with the bare truth of reasons. Why does this person react and act this way to you and to the other different. The understanding of it all helps the process as it is with everything human beings have to learn.
Regarding my situation back then. I had decided to pull through with it by staying tough. I understood the possible reasons the co-workers were having to behave the way they did and forgave them as I knew I would not have to deal with it forever and as that that period of time was only that - a period of time.
Happiness is a choice, it is said..there is no time for bitchassness.
thank, forgive, love
aloha
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