November 11, 2005
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q1 - Elevators: If you got on an elevator in which everyone had their back to the door, what would you do?
Q2 - Doubts: When was the last time you doubted your professional abilities?
Q3 - Salaries: Do you think it's okay that professional athletesí salaries are made public?
Q4 - Jokes: Knock knock. Who's there?
Posted by Mikal at November 11, 2005 12:01 AM
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Q1 - Elevators : If you got on an elevator in which everyone had their back to the door, what would you do? I would say excuse me excuse me enough times to get inside far enough to see what it is that has them so fascinated. If, alas, there is nothing, I would ask them if they all got up on the wrong side of the bed.
Q2 - Doubts : When was the last time you doubted your professional abilities? I'm a writer, and writers traditionally agonize over every word. It's not that I doubt my abilities so much as I fear I that next time I reach for a word it won't be there.
Q3 - Salaries : Do you think it's okay that professional athletesí salaries are made public? Sure. The reason they are public is that there are salary caps in effect in professional sports (some? all?). One team can only pay X million dollars a year in salaries, so the total amount paid out has to be tallied. Naturally, that means we have to know what each player is paid. What a golfer makes is determined by how he/she does in a tournament. Since the prizes are stated at the start of play, the winners' purse is not a secret. The same is true for most individual professional sports.
If a person craved privacy in things personal finances, the ability to walk down a street without being recognized or a need to be left alone, then that person should probably choose a career that is, um, less public than that of a professional athelete.
Q4 - Jokes : Knock knock. Who's there?
Dwayne.
Dwayne who?
Dwayne the bathtub! I'm dwoning!
Q1 - I would check my deodorant. Otherwise I would look to see if the exit was in the rear of the elevator, I have seen some that was true, where you get in one door and exit the other.
Q2 - Not really doubts, but more did I cross all the Tís and dot all the Iís. Before we ship anything the customers come in and audit all our records. Since it is my job to make sure all the test equipment is properly calibrated, all the technicians are certified to work on those particular job and to maintain those records, I get nervous thinking did I forget anything.
Q3 - I donít care one way or the other. The athletes behave like rich spoiled brats. Look at the NBA where they want to impose a dress code and the players want a clothing allowance! Here are players who are making millions of dollars arguing over a couple of thousand dollars.
Q4 - Knock knock. Who's there?
Itís me!
Me, who?
Me who hates knock knock jokes with a passion.
Q1: Aside from chuckling aloud, I'd stand as I normally would, facing the door, and if I had it in me, I'd let one rip, really loud!
Q2: The last time I seriously doubted my professional abilities was in December of 2002, when I was hired on as an acquisitions editor for a large successful publisher. I had done acquisitions before but never at that level. A few days into the job and all of my doubts quickly subsided. At some level, I think I've always had doubts about my professional abilities, and in admitting that I'll also share that I think having some doubts isn't necessarily a bad thing. Knowing my strengths and weaknesses is as important to me as it is to anyone I work for. Self-doubt doesn't stop me in my tracks... rather, it propels me into action... action which leads to acquiring new skills and doing better than anyone thought I could in the first place.
Q3: Yes, I think it's entirely appropriate that professional athletes' salaries are made public. In fact, I think it'd be swedish (that means "cool" in Beli-Blog-speak) if their signed contracts were similarly made available to anyone who wanted to see them.
Q4: Nobel. Nobel who? No bell, that's why I knocked!
(1) Get on, and assume that everyone knows what they're doing, and that I'm on an elevator with doors at both ends.
(2) Constantly. It's what drives me to get better.
(3) Sure, especially if I'm tax-paying for a new stadium for them.
(4) Knock-Knock. Who's there. Isabella. Isabella who? Isabella needed on a bicycle?
Q1: I would stand on my tippie toes to see if they were facing another door. If they weren't, then I would try to make eye contact to see if this was some sort of prank. Then, I'd probably ask someone why everyone was facing the wrong way.
Q2: I work on a project-by-project basis. When I'm involved in a project, I rarely have doubts, because there's no room in my mind for it. When the project ends, unless I have another project to dive right into, the doubts return. They're brutal and debilitating.
Q3: As long as a portion of people's taxes are going to pay for the stadiums in which these boys and girls play, I think their salaries should be plastered on billboards all over townÖ along with the net profits of the team and the salaries of all owners and managers and how much they contribute to individual politicians and parties.
Q4 JOKE: Now that I'm doubting my professional abilities, I can't think of anything funny.
1: I'd ask the whole group what was up, loudly.
2: I don't usually doubt my abilities. It's my motivation that suffers. I occasionally doubt my ability to meet others' expectations of me (not my abilities themselves, per se), and then I try to schedule a meeting to clarify them and what I can and cannot do.
3: Yep, for the same reasons everyone else has said.
4: Banana. Banana who? Knock knock. Who's there?Banana. Banana WHO? Knock knock. Who's there? Banana! BANANA WHO? Knock knock. Who's there?
Orange. Orange who? Orange you glad I didn't say banana???? (My 4 and 1/2 year old LOVES that one.)
Q1 - Elevators: I would begin to quietly study the situation in curiosity.
Q2 - Doubts: If I did not doubt my abilities, would I not then cease to improve upon them?
Q3 - Salaries: Certainly, for in doing so, I see moreso how utterly strange this world is, in which those who play games are considered to be of such worth.
Q4 - Jokes: In a nation of men driven by the pursuit of their personal entertainment, I could hardly provide yet further means of fulfilling such goals.
1)Shout "Hey! Get lost!"
2)I thought that I am a fast reader but I found out that my friend finished Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince 1 day before me. Its not really a professional ability but hey, I am only 12.
3)Maybe...
4)Oppountunity(Did I spelt it correctly?)
Can't be.
Why?
Oppountunity(Did I spelt it correctly?)only knocks once.
1. I wouldn't get on the elevator.
2. When I was job searching. When I started my job. A few weeks ago when I had to take on more responsibility than I was ready for.
3. Yes. Like the others have said, if we have to pay taxes to use in the building of arenas in order for them to play their sports in our cities, so they can earn millions of dollars, then we should have access to that information. And maybe a portion of their salaries should go into building the arenas so we wouldn't have to pay as much in taxes.
4. Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana who?
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Banana.
Banana who?
Knock, knock.
Who's there?
Orange.
Orange who?
Orange you glad I didn't say banana?
(Sorry, the only joke I could think of this late at night).
Q1 - I'd look for the "Candid Camera." But I think I would still stand the regular way.
Q2 - Let's see, how long's school been out? About 8 hours ago.
Q3 - Of course. What I don't think is okay is the amount they make. That's just sad and wrong. Where are our priorities as a nation? (I feel the same about celeb actors, so I'm not just being anti-sports here.)
Q4 - Knock knock.
Who's there?
Interrupting cow.
Interuuping c...
MOOOO!
1. Where is the elevator? And, why am I boarding it? Those would dramatically impact the way I responded. So, for now, I plead the 5th.
2. Every day I doubt some level of my ability to complete my daily grind. I feel it makes me strive to get better.
3. I don't care if they make that information public. If the athlete REALLY wanted to keep the salary & benefits to himself, I'm sure that he could write that into his contract somehow. Granted, I know that on some level the teams have to report to their respective leagues what the players are making, but I'm sure that the information could be sent with non-personal unique record identifiers.
4. Maddie! Stop barking!!!
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