Protect the children.

If I came into your home and began swearing and discussing donkey porn in front of your kids, you would be appalled. So why do you think it’s okay to post that stuff to your Facebook feed where kids can see it? It’s easy enough to hide your adult content from the kids on your profile, so do it.

No censorship please

Having said that, don’t try to tell others what they can and cannot post to their Facebook profile. Where we are all adults, then we can choose to cope. If I am posting stuff you find offensive, message me and explain why. If you don’t agree, then comment and make your case. If you can’t bear my updates any longer, hide me from your news feed. It’s not hard, just do it,

Consider what you post

Think about your updates. Think about what other people’s news feeds will look like if you post a list to 20 different items from your favorite online store in 10 minutes. Ask yourself if you really need to repost that glib rubbish sixteen of your friends already posted. Look at giving value to your friends, and in so doing encourage them to give value back. Facebook can easily be a place to share knowledge with the people you are supposed to care about. Give it a try.

Such is the case right now, and I’m trying to figure out exactly where to draw the line. Do I just have to suck it up, or do I have some right to at least talk to the team member about it? Can I offer to help improve the situation?

I’m talking about sick days. The government in their wisdom suggest I should give my team 9 sick days off a year, which is to say, the gold standard of I’ll health is no more than 9 days a year. Before I go on, let me clarify, I’m not talking about serious disease here. We did have one team member with a serious condition, that took doctors months to properly diagnose and needed 6 weeks off work to resolve. Fair enough.

However, when a team member takes 6 days off work sick (not consecutive, one at a time) over the first 10 weeks of their employment, I have to wonder what’s going on. I’m not even suggesting they aren’t actually sick. If I caught them taking sick days when they weren’t sick I’d fire them immediately, after all, if they can’t tell you the truth, they cant work for you.

But if they really are getting sick for a day this often, are they taking care of themselves? If they aren’t taking care of themselves, are they taking care of my business? Should I have to put up with the lost productivity caused because they apparently refuse to do the things that would prevent them being sick in the first instance?

Going further, should I, or can I, intervene? Can I insist on a medical checkup? Can I insist they take vitamins, eat healthy? None of my team smoke but if they did, can I insist they give up?

I’m a fairly proactive, nurturing kind of boss. I’d be happy to pay for some or all of these things after all, healthier team members make a healthier business. Clearly I’m motivated primarily by the success or failure of my business, but is it not also true that better health would be of great benefit to the team member as well?

If you are an employer or employee, I’d love to get your opinion on this, as right now, I’m not sure what, if anything, I should do about this.

Starting with the right type of worms is essential to get the high quality castings from the worm farm. There are few worms that easily adapt to life in the container and process the organic waste. If you are new to worm farming, you can choose wrong kind of worms that burrow down and do not process much food into casting. To start with, you need to buy the worms from an experienced vermicomposting supplier to ensure that the worms are good enough for farming.

Once you gain sufficient experience, you will be able to identify the local worms, and find out if they would be good for populating the farm. The worm farm can be built in several ways, and one easy way is to directly situate it on the ground. Another option is to dig a trench, and put the material inside. Another option is to use the bin or container of some kind, and stack two or more on top of each other.

To start the worm farming in the container, put some sheets of shredded newspaper inside, which can act as the bedding. Put some handfuls of soil, add little water, organic waste, and finally add the worms. Cover the mouth of the container with something light so that the light stays out while the moisture is retained. After a couple of weeks, take off the cover to put some more food, and continue to do so while the worms multiply.

If the farm starts smelling bad, you might be supplying more food than the worms are able to process, and also avoid adding milk products, animal waste, animal products or oil as these can attract pests. When the box is almost half full, you can harvest the castings, and there are several ways to do this. You can bring out the remaining non-decomposed food by pushing everything to one side. On the empty side, add a layer of bedding, soil and food, give worms few weeks time to move over to the other side, and collect the good vermicompost that has been left behind.

They have engaged a professional writer, someone who claims to deliver great benefits in communications by writing great copy. For some reason, they asked this person to move the idea of a Wi-Fi hotspot forward.

So I get an email from this person asking for a quote.

Clearly, the person didn’t take the time to open the PDF at all, because it gives them the answer to this, and many other questions.

So I have to wonder, if you are running a business, have you asked yourself if the people you are paying for help and advice are really any good? Doesn’t something like this give you pause to consider if the the people in your business are switched on enough to help you success, or are in fact holding you back?