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I've been to so many training classes to learn how to train over the course of my career. Today is the 41st anniversary of service with the same company, I started when I was 18 years old.
I eventually got inserted into the training role from my role as just another production employee. Got put into training and sort of fell forward the whole time, I still consider myself fortunate or even lucky, although I'm in no way superstitious.
The weather here is said to be ugly this evening. Big storms, although it looks on the radar to be missing us. So far.
Stay with me here, if I can keep my story together this is going somewhere....one of the trainers I was working with on the road at all of the company's paper mills in the United States and Canada, he made a statement one time. A victim statement. He said, "If a tree falls on your house, it's not your fault, that's just bad luck."
I beg to differ. I went through Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina back in the 80's and trees fell all around the house. They all missed the house. By two feet. That was LUCK, the house was framed like a picture frame with fallen trees in the aftermath. The eye of the sorm passed close to the house so the wind blew different directions as it passed.
Here's my point: If a tree falls on your house, it's because you allowed the tree to be there beforehand. Cut the danged thing down so it will NEVER fall on your house. A hurricane will make you look at trees really differently. Which way will it fall? In a hundred years, it WILL fall, wind or not.
And my point, not about weather at all....if we are all open minded about everything, there is almost always something we ourselves did (or didn't do) that contributed to the outcome, the calamity, whatever it is. That's in human relationships or trees falling on the house or building a car. What we do or don't do affects the outcome, even when the outcome appears to be random. That's deep stuff. But I believe it. Just sayin.
I eventually got inserted into the training role from my role as just another production employee. Got put into training and sort of fell forward the whole time, I still consider myself fortunate or even lucky, although I'm in no way superstitious.
The weather here is said to be ugly this evening. Big storms, although it looks on the radar to be missing us. So far.
Stay with me here, if I can keep my story together this is going somewhere....one of the trainers I was working with on the road at all of the company's paper mills in the United States and Canada, he made a statement one time. A victim statement. He said, "If a tree falls on your house, it's not your fault, that's just bad luck."
I beg to differ. I went through Hurricane Hugo in South Carolina back in the 80's and trees fell all around the house. They all missed the house. By two feet. That was LUCK, the house was framed like a picture frame with fallen trees in the aftermath. The eye of the sorm passed close to the house so the wind blew different directions as it passed.
Here's my point: If a tree falls on your house, it's because you allowed the tree to be there beforehand. Cut the danged thing down so it will NEVER fall on your house. A hurricane will make you look at trees really differently. Which way will it fall? In a hundred years, it WILL fall, wind or not.
And my point, not about weather at all....if we are all open minded about everything, there is almost always something we ourselves did (or didn't do) that contributed to the outcome, the calamity, whatever it is. That's in human relationships or trees falling on the house or building a car. What we do or don't do affects the outcome, even when the outcome appears to be random. That's deep stuff. But I believe it. Just sayin.
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