WEDNESDAY'S WORD 2-22-06

Hello loyal readers. In an effort to keep you coming back more than just once a week, I promised to post occasionally outside of my Monday column. This is one of those occasionallies. I call it the Wednesday Word, even though it's not "a word" so much as a thought or idea or rant. Today's will be a short one, just to get your feet wet.

WORZALA'S WEDNESDAY'S WORD
If you work in an office and you know the main receptionist is going to be gone all week leaving just the second string receptionist at the position, and you know the second string receptionist already has a lot on his or her plate including mailing, faxing, answering 9 phone lines for 6 different stations, finding prizes, entering agriculture market numbers and stories and occasionally making sure stations are still on the air, AND you've known about an upcoming event for several months, please don't give that second string receptionist a time intensive project on Wednesday that you want done by Friday, Monday morning at the latest.
Why?
1) It's rude.
2) It makes him or her who has been handed the task feel unappreciated.
3) It makes it really, really difficult to put up a Wednesday's Word in a timely manner.
Remember, Be Excellent To Each Other.

And there you have it, the inaugural Wednesday's Word. We're just making memories left and right aren't we?