Ouch
During the annual recognition gala
Jim pinned
the coveted long service pin
right through Julia’s blouse
piercing her skin.
Julia yelped.
Jim stumbled
fumbled
and dropped the pin
down Julia’s blouse.
The annual
employee recognition effort
ended for another year.
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Simply beautiful, David. You have succinctly, but quite successfully, skewered all that is wrong with the “lapel pin approach” to employee recognition — annual only, uncomfortable, undesired, undesirable.
You’ve written much more elegantly what it took me an entire post ( http://www.globoforce.com/blog/?p=484 ) to rail against “the way we’ve always done it” with lame pins that nobody wants or wears anymore.
Derek:
Thank you for the positive feedback and for not sending me a pin.
David