Working Up

by Dwayne Phillipe

My wife and I have been married for 30 years, and we still fold clothes differently.

My wife and I have been married for 30 years; we still fold clothes differently. I suppose there is some lesson or twelve in there somewhere. We love each other, but neither of us will change how we fold clothes – neither of us will bend.

Perhaps the lesson is:

when something doesn’t matter much, it doesn’t matter much how you do it

Hmmm, let’s try to apply that to work. I have seen people at work make much of things that don’t seem to matter. For example:

These are not made up silly examples. They are from real life. They are equivalent to me telling my wife, “fold clothes my way or else fill-in-the-blank-with-something-serious.”

Sounds pretty silly when I write that. I wish I could get people at work to think about their “or else” statements.