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Leadership… or the lack thereof.

May 29th, 2010

President Obama has turned down Arizona Governor Jan Brewers request for a meeting regarding the Arizona Immigration policy, and says he has no plans to meet with her in the future.

Brilliant.

Rather than try and work with the Governor and the rest of the State representatives on policy that the majority of Americans agree with, he’s going to continue blasting the bill, and bringing foreign leaders in to follow suit.

All the while neither he nor Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano have read the bill (by her own admission).

Talk about poor leadership skills.

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One of those days.

May 9th, 2009

It’s been a rough week, and to cap it all off, I’ve been stricken with a cold for the last several days.  No, it’s not the swine flu.

Friday seemed to kick me in the groin like a rough Monday usually would.  Not having any motivation to pack my lunch like I usually do, I made my way to the local Arby’s for a French Dip sandwich.  Unbeknown to me, the server put the “dip” portion of the meal (I think they call it a-jus) in a cardboard container, upside down in the to-go bag.  The fact that the container had a hole in the cover should pretty much finish off the story for me.

A jus all over the carpet of my vehicle, and nothing to “dip” my “French” in for lunch.  Bummer.

Then, I get chewed out by a co-worker for not filling out a form before working on a project.  He’s the team lead of another group in our building, so I don’t work for him, but he decided to “chew my a$$” for not filling out the form because my boss “chewed his a$$” for his guys not filling out the same form.

Rather than stir the pot, I vehemently admitted that I should have filled out the form, despite the fact that I really didn’t need one, and he would have known that if he would have asked a few questions prior to commencing the “chewing”.

This guy is former military, where jumping down someones throat seems to lead to results, but those tactics generally don’t work in the civilian world.  Further, it shines of poor leadership skills to “chew someone’s a$$” just because someone else chewed on yours.

For the trifecta, the weather is beautiful this weekend and I’m stuck inside with Sudafed head and a sore throat.

On the bright side, the market was up this week, and despite some bad employment numbers that were better than expected, things might be off to a good start on Monday.

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