Please learn to drive!

8-1013tm-cart-business2How is it some people have never learned the basics when it comes to driving a car? I thought they tested on those things? Some I wish they did, like merging or proper use of blinkers. How about how mirrors work. The text that says “things are closer than they appear” should also include “there is a blind spot”. As a public service announcement I would like to say that merging on to the highway does require you to get up to a speed that is close to the traffic on the highway so you can come into the lane and not make everyone on the highway slam on the brakes! It is also not required to stop and wait till everyone else has gone home before you then decide to get on the highway. I would also like to add to the general training schedule a roundabout and large mall parking lot. But of course the only thing that is happening is the giving of more licenses to people who shouldn’t have them.

New jobs on day one!

NX_coal_miner_shovel_frontThere is a standing joke I have heard and used for years. When a new employee starts on the second day we say “You came back”. I have never had someone not come back, but I know many people probably wonder at the end of the first day of a job if they made a good decision. I have had jobs where I was really unsure how it was going to go based on the first day. Others it took me a while to realize I needed to find another career. How many times have I looked back and wondered what exactly I was thinking when I said I would take a job? Some paid great some did not, the quality of the job doesn’t always line up with the pay. Day two however has never been the day which I made my decision. Usually I stick it out for a bit longer before I decide so I don’t know why that joke is funny. I did use it today and myself and the three others standing around snickered at the thought!