Feedback on 3-2-10 issue of Glenn Shepard’s “Work Is Not for Sissies”
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Thank God, someone finally said it…it is our differences that make us strong, as a company, as people, as a country
I will like to comment on Glenn’s response to Sandy.
Right on!!!
I have never agreed more with you.
that is an ugly truth but you spoke it.
Thank you.
Just an absolutely super article!!! Thank you.
Also, I am so glad to see that someone spoke out (response to Sandy) on the subject of ethical (besides being moral) conduct. Some days I feel like I am swimming upstream by myself.
You hit the nail on the head! The problem is, the workplace is well stocked with people who don’t play by the same rules (integrity issues?) and the million dollar question is what do you do when you know someone is working against you because you somehow pose a threat to their existence?
I totally agree about disagreeing with the head instead of the heart. John I. also got it right when he asked, “what do you do when you know . . . you somehow pose a threat to their existence?” The two subjects you referred to (“Is being gay a choice?” and “Is global warning real?” – and there are many others) go far beyond mere disagreement. They have serious consequences for basic human rights (including the right to exist) and the future of the planet that our children will inherit. If people could only discuss these things using reason and fact instead of emotion and invective, we’d progress a whole lot faster (and then maybe our system of government might once again be empowered to solve our common problems).
Thank you Glenn for the discussion. It’s the disagreements that make us strong, laying all sorts of points of view on the table for the one in charge to come to the best decision for the group as a whole. When that decision is finally made, everyone, indeed even the most vehemently opposed initially, must back it to the best of his or her ability for the good of all. Unfortunately, there are too many examples out there where people of difference refuse to even come to that table.
Regarding global warming, it’s happening, and even those on the far Right do not deny that fact, as the evidence is overwhelming. What the argument has come down to is the cause of that warming, people and their greenhouse gas emissions or a natural planetary cycling. Neither can be absolutely proven, but the choice of acceptance of which opinion is the cause is what will affect certain people financially.
Please take me off your mailing list. Great employees don’t have time to read this stuff.
Amy Fielder
Gay and Lesbian Medical Association
http://www.glma.org
Thank you Glenn for that wisdom which is often at the back of most people’s minds. This really applies to the most religious folks on earth because they are not prepared to accept other peoples’ conflicting opinions.
Khanya Ngonyama
South Africa
Love the 3-2-10 article….we aren’t robots and if more people could learn to “agree to disagree” what a better world this would truly be!
It is nice to see some people out there still think for themselfs, I work for a corporation that employees over 400 people and of the 400, only about thirty percent still think or make decisions for themselfs.
Have a nice day!