McLean’s Laws of Meetings

Individual meetings should last no more than 45 minutes.
If you can’t finish a meeting in 45 minutes, then you weren’t prepared for it in the first place, so have mercy on the participants and announce as soon as diplomatically possible that you are scheduling a follow-on.

One More Reason…

… to swallow hemlock if you’re a homely woman in America:
Ohio State University research scientist Jay Zagorsky published a study showing that by early middle age, married people have a net worth that is a whopping 93 PERCENT HIGHER than single or divorced people.
The study was based on a group of over 9,000 people between ages 41 and 49. Net worth included home value, stocks, retirement and savings accounts.
The reason for the difference is – no great insight here – most married couples have two sources of income.

I Don’t Know About You …

… but I know people who have lost their jobs for a LOT less than the 3 years of incompetence by the DSS staffers who were “following” the case of Haleigh Poutre, the 11 year old Westfield girl who is currently on life support, having been beaten literally senseless by her adoptive parents after 3 years of near-continuous physical abuse.
Naturally, the DSS Commissioner, Harry Spence, announced that he has “no plans” to discipline any of his staff, presumably on the basis that these so-called experts were “duped” by this poor child’s crafty, duplicitous adoptive mother.
If there’s any justice in this at all, it’s that the bitch killed herself two days after being held on child-abuse charges. Let’s hope she’s found her just reward in the afterlife, having gotten her sick, perverted jollies in this one by torturing someone else’s child.

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