I worked as an accountant in a paper mill where my boss decided that it would improve motivation to split a bonus between the two shifts based on what percentage of the total production each one accomplished.
The workers quickly realized that it was easier to sabotage the next shift than to make more paper. Co-workers put glue in locks, loosened nuts on equipment so it would fall apart, you name it. The bonus scheme was abandoned after about ten days, to avoid all out civil war.
“I don't want to be swallowed by the darkness. Nor do I want to be blinded by the beautiful façade. No, I want to be part of a people who see the darkness, know it's real, and then, then, then, light a candle anyway. And hold that candle up against the wind and pass along our light wherever it's needed from our own homes to the halls of legislation to the church pulpit to the kitchens of the world.”
- Sarah Bessey
And no, they didn't e-mail them to me...
~ I am only one, but I'm still someone.
~ I cannot do everything, but I can do something.
~ Just because I cannot do everything does not give me the right to do nothing.
~ Remember when you talk you only repeat what you already know, but if you listen you may learn something.
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A discussion about Truth and Reconciliation with two members of the Wiikwemkoong First Nation, and a member and Chief of the Aundeck Omni Kaning First Nation.
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"Love will find a way. Indifference will find an excuse."
To lengthen your life, shorten your meals.