December 29, 2006
FOUR FOR FRIDAY
Q1 - Multitasking: Eighty percent of us claim to be multitaskers, and nearly two-thirds of all multitaskers consider themselves good at it. How about you...are you a multitasker? If so, do you multitask by choice or design?
Q2 - Federal Closings: Yesterday, President George W. Bush declared that Tuesday, January 2, 2007, will be a National Day of Mourning here in the U.S. after the death earlier this week of former U.S. President Gerald Ford. In doing so, President Bush ordered all government agencies and departments to close on Tuesday, except for offices essential to national security. In your opinion, do you think federal employees should have the day off from work because of the death of President Ford?
Q3 - Who's on First: For the second time in the last 10 days, a powerful storm has dumped major amounts of snow on Denver, Colorado, and Denver International Airport (DIA). Nearly 5,000 airline passengers were stranded at DIA during a 45-hour closure last week, and when the airport reopened, many of those stranded passengers found themselves waiting even longer to board planes because new passengers arriving at the airport were given preference for flights. Do you think grounded passengers should be first in line for the first available flights, or is it okay for new passengers booked on new flights to have preference over grounded passengers?
Q4 - Calendar: Do you have a 2007 calendar? If so, is it the kind with pictures on one side and the previous month on the backside, or is it a desk calendar, sans pictures? If a picture calendar, what is its theme? If you do not have a 2007 calendar, do you plan to buy one or are you not the calendar type?
Posted by Mikal at December 29, 2006 12:16 AM
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Q1. Multitasking. I am a bad multitasker. Everyone is in my opinion. I do best when I have 1 thing to do, and I get into 'the zone' and bang it out.
Q2. Federal Closings. No way. I know at Doba, we made a mistake with a Holiday where we weren't planning on taking, but because of the communication mess-up, we took it anyway, and it cost us close to $15k in Payroll. We have 100 employees. Think of the money the taxpayers just got to pay. Have a lunchtime moment of silence, or remembering, or whatever. Not the day off.
Q3. Who's on First. Tough one. Taking a plane isn't a giant queue. Getting luggage checked, getting on the plane, those are queues that you wait in line in order. Otherwise for flying, you're picking a date/time to fly. If you get blasted by the weather, and your flight is delayed or cancelled, that's bad luck, other people shouldn't be affected since it's not setup as a queue in any other way. They picked better times/flights is the way to look at it. Tough luck, don't fly out of Denver in the winter. ;)
Q4. Calendar. I have two 2007 calendars. Both have the pictures. One theme is the Weather (coolest calendar ever invented, I've been getting it as a Christmas present for the last 9 years), the other is Yellowstone.
Q1 - I think in this day and age, everyone is a multitasker. If your sitting down listening to the radio and drinking a beer while typing on your laptop...your multitasking. Its definitely not by choice.
Q2 - I'd rather see the Federal Government give employees the option to donate their days time to a worthy cause in the memory of President Ford rather than just having the day off.
Q3 - There is no black and white answer to this questions. I'm prone to say give grounded passengers first preference but who knows about all the 'unknowns' that go into this fiasco.
Q4 - The only calander I've look at in the past year is on MS Outlook....
Q1 - Multitasking: I am very linear and prefer working on one task at a time. Focus is key to my success. When someone calls me in the muddle of my focusing on a task, I would estimate that it sets me back a half hour. When my daughter comes home from school, she starts talking to me, and soon realizes that although I respond, I have processed nothing of what she's said. She'll say, "Dad, you haven't heard one word I've said." I've learned to take a break at about 3:30 every day to really listen to her.
Q2 - Do you think federal employees should have the day off from work because of the death of President Ford? Nope. If the goverment wants to pay all of its citizens for taking a day off, then do it. Otherwise, nobody should receive preferential treatment.
Q3 - Who's on First: No cutting in line!
Q4 - Calendar: Picture calendar. Frida Kahlo paintings. Frida rocks!
1. I'm good at multi-tasking, it's the organizer inside of me. It must be by design.
2. Hmm...I think it's okay for gov't workers to have the day off. I guess it would be like the CEO of a company who died, and the employees had a day off to mourn. It doesn't bother me either way.
3. I think those who had been waiting for 45 hours should have priority in getting their flights re-arranged. I'd be pissed off if I'd been waiting two days to get home for Christmas and other people who just showed up were passed through. Then again, those passengers newly arrived at the airport also had plans to travel on a certain day. But those who waited should definitely be accomodated right away.
4. I do have a small desk calendar with no pictures. I love calendars and if I had my own office space I'd buy one with cool photos. I'll probably go to B & N after Jan. 1st to get one at half price.
1. I do multitask at work because there's no other real choice, but I think that it's a recipe for having two or more things done poorly rather than one thing done well.
2. Heck no. 99% of the employees won't do anything to actually mourn Ford's passing. Of course, I also feel this way about any other 'holiday' that federal workers get off that the general populance does not.
3. The grounded, delayed passengers most certainly should have been given preference.
4. The one I have at home is a freebie that came in the mail with generic pictures and the previous month on the backside. At work we have a "Get Fuzzy" comic strip a day calendar.
1. When I worked I multitasked because there was no choice. Now I don't if I can help it. I prefer to focus on one thing and I hate to be interrupted by my nonsense chattering mother. Smile! It gets me off task and then I have a time getting back in focus.
2. I think that government workers get more holidays than everyone else as it is. They will not use this time to mourn Ex-Pres. Ford. So it bothers me somewhat to know that they are going to be off work having fun while everyone who has to is at work.
3. I think those who had tickets for planes should be able to take the flight they booked on. BUT, I also think that the airlines should put every resource to work to get the stranded passengers on to their destination as fast as possible even if that means adding flights, getting them onto other airlines, or whatever.
4. 3 calendars sort of. #1 is a plain working calendar. No pictures and the month has big spaces and takes up both sections (where the picture normally is and where the calendar is). It also has a pocket where you can put invitations, flyers, appointment cards, etc. This is the one we use to record everything we are doing. #2 is in my office and is a Mary Engelbreit with pictures on the reverse side of the calendar. Love her stuff. #3 is a MyBook. This is a planner that you can decorate yourself. You can do whatever you want with the covers and the introductory page for each month. I actually have 3 of these--one for a journal, one to keep track of all things medical, and one for a prayer journal. I know, I'm obsessive.
1. I multi-task by choice and by design.
2. I do not think that federal offices should be closed for ANY past president's funeral or any sort of day of mourning. If a sitting president were to die or be killed in office, then, perhaps. A Day of Mourning is fine, but, a holiday?? And only for federal employee? That's unfair and, frankly, just plain wrong.
3. Current/new passengers should ALWAYS be given priority on flights. Otherwise, what's the point of making EVERYONE involved in the problem suffer? The solution is to add more flights and planes. It wouldn't take a rocket scientist to figure out how to do that. Airlines even could have an emergency plan to allow stranded passengers to all fly together on a "generic" plane, sort of liek they do when they will book you on another airline if they miss a connection for you. Also, this issue is SO minor, I can't believe I just spent this much time on it.
4. I have a patriotic wall calendar with photos of iconic American images/treasures. At work, I use Microsoft Outlook for my calendar - and it is sans pix.
1. I'm a multi-tasker, mostly of necessity. Depending on the tasks I'm doing, I'm either excellent at it, or incredibly sucky. Most fall into the latter category. Things like playing video games or watching TV fall into the first.
2. Heck, I'd take any excuse to take a paid day off. But since I don't work for the gov, I say they have to be screwed just like me! If I ever get a government job, I reserve the right to change my opinion on the matter.
3. I can understand their reasoning, but I'm a "first come, first served" kind of guy.
4. My calendar is still on October 2006. I only use calendars if given to me... not really the calendar type.
Q1 - Bad Multitasker, I tend to concentrate on one thing at a time.
Q2 - No reason to have the day off, they can pay their respects after work.
Q3 - Grounded passengers should have first preference.
Q4 - Yes I have a 2007 calendar, I make my own.
Q1 - Bad Multitasker, I tend to concentrate on one thing at a time.
Q2 - No reason to have the day off, they can pay their respects after work.
Q3 - Grounded passengers should have first preference.
Q4 - Yes I have a 2007 calendar, I make my own.
1 - I'm good at multi-tasking. I thought I was very good at it before I had kids, but that was nothing. A mother has no choice but to multi-task, especially if she wants to be able to keep the house even relatively neat, feed her family, etc. Add in an outside job and you are doing even more multi-tasking.
2 - I don't think it should have been a federal holiday. Maybe if G-d forbid it should have been the current president and they were trying to calm things down, but death is part of life and Pres. Ford lived a long, full life and did not die a tragic death, so there was no reason, and as far as I know, no precedent for making it a federal holiday.
3 - Those boarding planes should be allowed to travel and those stranded should be put onto new flights as soon as humanly possible, but it would just cause more mass confusion and problems if everyone after those affected flights are continued to be affected.
4 - I have a 2007 day planner, but no pics, just 2 pages per week, in a book format that I can carry with me. I use it for everything - to keep track of business information, kids' information, family (inc father's ) dr appts, etc. I would be so lost without it. But I also recently started using the online calendar with aol to utilize the reminders. They help for those days I don't remember or have a chance to open my calendar.
1. I only multitask when the stuff I'm doing is not very important.
2. It seems to me to be more political maneuvering than truly mourning someone who passed away. So, no.
3. Grounded passengers should be accomodated as soon as possible without disrupting the flow of new passengers.
4. I have a cheapo 2007 planning calender with no pictures.
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