The Ramblings of the Semi-Sane
In today’s fast-paced business environment, retaining employees has become an essential strategy for companies looking to remain competitive. While replacing employees may seem like a quick and easy solution, it is not always the most effective one. In fact, there are numerous benefits to retaining employees, and companies that invest in their employees are more…
I haven’t posted anything public in ages. it just all seems so pointless these days. No one really cares, so why bother, right? Screw it, it’s cathartic for me, and I don’t care if anyone else reads it or not. So, what’s on the plate today? Me, wondering why all these folks that spend the…
Time flies when you’re having fun, or so they say.. I’ve lost 2 years now, and it wasn’t fun. Covid sucks, so do all the politics surrounding it and clouding peoples common sense. Working from home has been a blessing and a curse. I get a lot more done, both at ‘the office’ and at…
People get married, and people get divorced. It happens. Sometimes it’s a peaceful parting of ways, other times it’s World War 3.Couples with small children fight over custody, many times with little regard for how those children feel about it all.What people fail to realize is that it impacts their friends too. Maybe not the…
With each passing day it seems our world grows smaller, yet more socially retarded. This past week I was witness to a repeat of something that had happened to me personally a couple of years ago. My youngest daughter, Grace, standing in the dining room with a shocked look on her face.. (I should mention,…
Some of my earliest memories involve learning to read. Cuddled on the couch next to my mother, she reading Dr. Seuss, me following along, my fingers under the words on the page repeating each word and memorizing the patterns of the letters that made up those words, with a bowl of Jiffy Pop next to…
I have too many things going on sometimes. I just can’t keep track, I get distracted and hop from one task or hobby to another. Genealogy is one of my favorite hobbies, and now adding DNA studies into the mix makes it even more time consuming, rather than less. 10 years ago I submitted my…
It’s been a crazy few months, and most things written here are locked away, they’re for me, more of a personal journal, not for public consumption. Chad Grimm, the Libertarian candidate for Governor of Illinois, lost of course. I didn’t expect he’d win, but a stronger showing would have been nice. Too many people still…
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Illinois must not impose any minimum wage increase. Businesses in Illinois are still struggling to recover from the deepest recession since the great depression. Illinois’ unemployment rate is stubbornly high at 9.2%, nearly 2 points higher than the U.S. average. Since 1.4% of Illinois workers earn minimum wage, increasing the mandatory minimum would have an…