The Panda Bear has read about Yahoo's decision to stop allowing people to telecommute. The Panda Bear has not read about the details of this decision but just from the headlines this decision rings about everything the Panda Bear dislikes about modern leadership in organizations. It does not treat people like individuals-good workers loose benefits because of the incompetence of others. Rather then go after the bad workers, the organization punishes everyone. Secondly, the Panda Bear strongly believes that the CEO of Yahoo will be telecommuting some of the time. Modern leaders seem to feel they don't have to follow the rules they set for us peasants. There are very few people in leadership positions that the Panda Bear respects.
The Panda Bear is an office worker but she does not telecommute. Her job is still very paper based and it would be hard to do at home. However, the Panda Bear dreams of flexible work scheduling. The four day work week or the four and a half day work week!. To have greater freedom on how one works their forty hours. How nice not to be charged time off for going to a physician's appointment, The Panda Bear believes that the five day work week is both for her personally and her work extremely inefficient.
The Panda Bear's supervisor was in the kitchen and she was asking the Panda Bear and other coworkers why people don't like to work. The Panda Bear said sometimes it wasn't the work itself but the fact people feel that their lives are restricted because of long work hours. People don't live by work alone.
The Panda Bear Blog is a blog that believe work and fun go together. Of course, the Panda Bear has become more critical of her work environment in that "fun" means eating high caloric food in a job that involves sitting at a computer all day. She told the heads of her organization at a group meeting that many people in offices need watch their weight-the office should be more diet and exercise friendly especially since the organization is self-insured(Overweight employees increase healthcare costs).
Seriously, while the Panda Bear confesses she has ate many and has enjoyed office sweets, she feels she would be a healthier person if there was less food available in offices. Also the Panda Bear (unfortunately) has body type that does not require a lot of calories. She can't eat most of the food in offices without gaining weight. The office has been a source of junk food for the Panda Bear that she does not eat at home. It has reinforced Panda Bear's tendency towards emotional eating. To increase her diet resolve, the Panda Bear tells herself that she is not a dog-she does not work for a food reward. The Panda Bear reminds herself that offices used to reward people by giving cigarettes;it might be fun to smoke and sociable to smoke at work but it is an unhealthly pleaure
Therefore, the Panda Bear has began the Diet at Work Project. She has vowed to go 365 days without eating any food at an office event except food that she brings. The Panda Bear feels it would really be a blessing if the office never fed her again and showed their appreciation in other ways.
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