The rest of the staff loved me, but the bosses… In Seattle my partner Kent and I would secretly tape our meetings when our program director was yelling at us, and we'd play them back on the air the next day. And then I genuinely could not understand why he'd be angry about it. ...
Virtual meetings are a great way to share credible news, assure team members that the company is doing well, update on projects and build a connection in these trying times. Always demonstrate caring by listening and addressing staff concerns. Some companies are meeting for virtual coffee once ...
doing a voice that wasn’t that funny. But some of it would actually be kind of surprisingly good. And we were shooting videos ourselves. Sometimes we’d just go, “I have an idea: Let’s just do a bit where I’m a grown-up who wants to, like, be a child again. And then I...
or sideways harder. At the end of one of our weekly anthropology department staff meetings, a colleague brought up the allegations against Anthony Weiner. Before I had the time to reconsider my stupidity, I blurted out “I mean, come on!!.. Who hasn’t sent a dick pic?!” I don’t...
Funny Get to Know You Questions for Work Starting the day with a few laughs can lighten the mood and add some much-needed levity to office meetings. Plus, fun, work-related questions are a great way to break the ice in any professional setting!
Me:“Sir, I can’t go behind the bar as I don’t work for them.” At this point, we have been passed by an actual member of the bar staff, but they don’t usually deliver bottles to the tables to discourage people from getting too drunk — like this guy. ...
“The goal for the future is to have the visiting faculty bring some of their students along with them, and to ignite that interest in their students to come back eventually to study, maybe at Stanford while pursuing their PhDs, and then eventually to become our colleagues as staff, ...
as to why their ‘new’ initiatives have not worked, why those new ‘statements’ spread around the walls and emails of our offices have delivered very little in the way of actual change. ‘Why are they not getting it, why are the staff not changing’ the minutes of our meetings reflect...