Randy Vaughan

Why Employee Morale is Low

When I mention that I have worked for sixty employers in my life, with rare exception the immediate response centers on same variation of the theme that I have a bad attitude. At one time this would force the debate of chicken and eggs and which came first. These days I state the fact and move on because most people inevitably choose what to believe based on how it makes them feel better about themselves. And quite often... (posted by Randy 1 year 288 days ago.)

Dreams and Nightmares

Aside from homework assignments and love letters--and though I certainly didn't know it at the time--the labor of writing as an expression of my life started on November 21, 1979. That was five days before my now ex-wife and I officially separated and having accepted the inevitability of it all, I needed a someone to talk to about a life--mine--that had fallen apart. There was no one else at the time... (posted by Randy 1 year 307 days ago.)

Living the Dream

It wasn't until I began the exciting, challenging, and rewarding occupation of spending all night driving all over hell and high-water to deliver doughnuts that I was introduced to this phrase: "Living the Dream". I'm certain it's usage it's not limited to those proud men and women known as "vendors" but, again, this was the first I knew of it. And it's almost universally spoken with a deliberate tone of sarcasm. Here in the south... (posted by Randy 1 year 321 days ago.)

The Little Red Hen, One Week Later

The week had passed with predictable routine except, quite understandably, the growing tension between the Little Red Hen and the Cat, the Dog, and the Duck. Cat continued to keep mice and rats out of the barn, Dog maintained his vigil and kept at bay other varmints known to prowl at day and during the night, and even Duck, very territorial by nature, had still refused to let the Farmer's... (posted by Randy 1 year 322 days ago.)

Triggers, Unsubs, and Criminal Minds

I watch very little television. It is useless as a source of reliable information about current events. Regrettably, it has minimal value for learning and education. And the idea of any inherent "entertainment" value depends completely upon one's understanding and definition of the word "entertainment". Throwing Christians to the lions once had "entertainment" value. The lions were, I imagine, ambivalent. The... (posted by Randy 1 year 336 days ago.)

A Tribute To a High-School Teacher

For better or worse, I choose to think that parents remain the greatest influences in our lives. We ignore much of what they try to teach us while simultaneously learning from them many things they probably wished we would have ignored. It's my distinction between truly "learning" as opposed to merely "mimicking". After that, however, we all have our points-of-view and convictions about... (posted by Randy 1 year 339 days ago.)