{"id":1563,"date":"2013-12-23T01:25:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-23T06:25:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/12\/folding-clothes\/"},"modified":"2013-12-01T05:40:25","modified_gmt":"2013-12-01T10:40:25","slug":"folding-clothes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/2013\/12\/folding-clothes\/","title":{"rendered":"Folding Clothes"},"content":{"rendered":"

by Dwayne Phillipe<\/p>\n

My wife and I have been married for 30 years, and we still fold clothes differently.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

Perhaps the lesson is:<\/p>\n

when something doesn’t matter much, it doesn’t matter much how you do it<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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:<\/p>\n

  • Tell building security the license plate of your car, or else we won’t pay you this week.<\/li>\n
  • Don’t cross the street in front of the building, walk down the block to the corner crossing, or else…<\/li>\n
  • Put your wet umbrellas in the basket in the lobby, or else…<\/li>\n
  • Be in the office by 9AM local time, or else…<\/li>\n

    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.”<\/p>\n

    Sounds pretty silly when I write that. I wish I could get people at work to think about their “or else” statements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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