Ever since I bragged about the nice weather a few days ago it has rained every day. Yesterday it rained off and on all day and was very cool and blustery. It is overcast this morning again so enough said about the wonderful weather here - for now, anyway.
It was a typical Wednesday at work with the big, weekly conference call taking place from 11 AM until after noon. Once again, the pressure to get sales was put on everybody and the Regional Director threatened to write up any Community sales people that don't meet their sales projections for the month. I don't care what anybody says, you cannot motivate people to work hard if they are threatened. Negative motivation has an opposite effect. I don't think they realize that the economy has impacted the sales at all of the Communities as the children of our prospective residents are using their elderly parents more and more for financial help to get through this economic downturn. They are having their parents live with them to help out financially.
The afternoon for us was a short one as we were scheduled to end work at 3 PM but didn't leave until almost 4 PM. We do have the morning off today until 11 AM and then we hit the long stretch of 2 1/2 days without relief. Counting the hours between quitting time at 8 PM and the start of the next day, we have the next 51 hours of on-duty accountability. That means that even though we aren't in the office, we have the phone and have to respond to any ecalls during the off hours. We're hoping for a quiet and smooth run during that time...
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