What's Dale doing now?

Dang, I went to work this week.  Oops, I get paid to do that!

The first three days were spent in a soft skills course - Influencer.  I highly recommend it.  This class builds on the two earlier classes:  Crucial Conversations and Crucial Confrontations.  Lots of good stuff, including some funny/educational videos.

If I enjoyed the class so much, why am I an engineer.  I need a pep talk.  Where is Dilbert when you need him?

On day two, I forgot to bring a pen.  So I asked the trainer for a loan.  She found one and told me to keep it.  It's a fairly nice pen.  Smooth Ink.  Colorful logo on it.  AFGE local 1592.  Solidarity.  Live Better/Work Union.  At lunch I went back to my office and got my own pen.

Thursday and Friday were in the office.  Spent several hours both days working on grievances.  The step 1 finding was released today for the "Contract Violation" grievance.  STP did not prevail, but it's not over yet, she'll take it to step 2.

I also got a ULP - that's an unfair labor practice.  I sent the top union dude an encrypted, signed email instead of sending an unsigned, unencrypted fax.  My bad - I screwed up.  The dude had warned me a month ago about sending the attachment because they contained personal information.  I checked the rules - No personal identificable information was contained.  After having so many grievances, I wanted to make sure that the union received it and I don't get positive acknowledgement of delivery from the fax machine.  So I sent a second email to the union dude because the Master Labor Agreement (MLA) requires that I send the info to the union. The dude obviously doesn't like email attachments, but he forwarded the attachment on to the labor union lawyer babe - unencrypted.  Go figure, UCFS


I'd like to put that union pen in a location where the sun never shines.

Governor Scott Walker - you're my hero.