by Dwayne Phillips<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We (or at least I) need a word for those little things that give us (me) headaches.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The waiter at the restaurant walked by. He had a band-aid on his thumb. “Yeah,” he acknowledged. “I just cut or burned for scraped or something my thumb and put a band-aid on it.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The small injury was easy to explain. The band-aid was an obvious, visible display of the injury. We all understand it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I went to a meeting at work (name just about any day in the workplace where we have meetings). Someone said something or showed something or did something that gave me a terrible headache.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I didn’t put a visible band-aid on my forehead to show everyone that what they did hurt my head. No one understood that some action gave me a headache. <\/p>\n\n\n\n And I can’t find a verb like “cut” or “scraped” or “burned” to express what happened. Hence, the title of the post. Why is it that a little cut on the thumb is seen and understood, but a major event that brings a headache and angst goes unnoticed and all that?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Here’s a tip: at the end of each meeting, the person presiding stops and asks, “Did anyone get a headache in this meeting? Did any of us give anyone else a headache? Did anyone just ___-ed their brain? If yes, let’s pause and discuss that.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n The ensuing discussion will probably be far more important than anything else discussed previously.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" by Dwayne Phillips We (or at least I) need a word for those little things that give us (me) headaches. The waiter at the restaurant walked by. He had a band-aid on his thumb. “Yeah,” he acknowledged. “I just cut or burned for scraped or something my thumb and put a band-aid on it.” The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[359,25,306],"tags":[360,147,307],"class_list":["post-2884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-injury","category-meetings","category-visibility","tag-injury","tag-meetings","tag-visibility"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2884"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2885,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2884\/revisions\/2885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dwaynephillips.net\/workingup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}