10-12-2006, 02:41 PM
[quote bazookaman][quote AlphaDog]"Poor planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."
I too like this one a lot. i finally got to use it on one of my coworkers. She reported me to HR. It was worth it though.
Yeh, this is harder to pull off at work, unfortunately. I managed to get by with it a couple of times, and those are now cherished memories.
I think it has a place when dealing with kids, though. I used the parenting equivalent of it a number of times, both with kids in my own house and kids I worked with. I still chuckle when I think back on the one foster son who caught up with me and the car at the first stop sign - out of breath and carrying his shoes. Hey, I was tired of skating into work at the last second because he wasn't ready to leave on time! It never happened again.
There are times when we need to cut kids some slack, but my guess is the one who is the subject of this thread had more than enough time to finish that assignment and chose to do something else instead. I would have told him "T$" and let him deal with the consequences.
I too like this one a lot. i finally got to use it on one of my coworkers. She reported me to HR. It was worth it though.
Yeh, this is harder to pull off at work, unfortunately. I managed to get by with it a couple of times, and those are now cherished memories.
I think it has a place when dealing with kids, though. I used the parenting equivalent of it a number of times, both with kids in my own house and kids I worked with. I still chuckle when I think back on the one foster son who caught up with me and the car at the first stop sign - out of breath and carrying his shoes. Hey, I was tired of skating into work at the last second because he wasn't ready to leave on time! It never happened again.
There are times when we need to cut kids some slack, but my guess is the one who is the subject of this thread had more than enough time to finish that assignment and chose to do something else instead. I would have told him "T$" and let him deal with the consequences.