Only Me and Bob

Me and Bob were the only ones at the office today. Tim was there for maybe 20 minutes but he had to go to some film screening.

I try to learn something every day. I don't always succeed or rather I don't always realize that I've learned something, but today I got smacked in the face with a lesson: if you are ever a supervisor, someone's boss or in charge of a group of people, always, always be kind and grateful and let your employees [and even co-workers] know how you are thankful for their work.

Bob was going through his email and leans over to me and says, "Rikki, I've been worked into the ground recently [some changes have happened with positions, etc] and this is why I love Jeff [the President and CEO of HTMP]...." and he proceeds to read me an email that Jeff had sent him explaining how grateful he was for Bob's hard work in the midst of stressful time.

That's how you are to treat your employees.