[Grizzly]

<p>So tomorrow is the big day, my PMP exam, and I have been studying hard either on course or at home or holed up in a conference room since the Friday before last.</p>
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<p>A younger colleague of mine dropped by to chat.  He's the same personality profile as I am.</p>
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<p>I asked if he were taking the IIBA (Business Analyst) courses that the department has been offering - 8 of them leading to a Masters Certificate and the IIBA exam.  He said "I'm too busy.  I've got this project work... yada yada".</p>
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<p>I asked him who the bleep he thought he was.  That knocked him for a loop.</p>
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<p>I told him that every single one of the people on the courses was busy, had projects, had lives of their own.  I pointed out that his own boss had taken valuable time away from the project to get her PMP.  I laid in to him.  Nobody but nobody BUT him will look after his own best interests, and if the company were footing the bill for education he was an idiot to turn that down.  Was he thinking about his future?  His family?  His marketability?  He slunk out.</p>
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<p>He just dropped by and thanked me for being harsh with him.  He's signed up. </p>
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<p>He then said that I knew exactly the right words to use.  Of course I did.  I used them on me a year ago.</p>

 

[rlemert]

<p>Well played, Sir!</p>
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<p><span style="font-size:9px;">Any chance you could come down to Raleigh and give me that speech?</span></p>

 

[Grizzly]

<p>If your company is footing the bill and it is something that will help you either in your current career or along your path, then you have to take it seriously.  Obviously home and health factors count.  I have been lucky in that I have a very very supportive family who have endured my bearish nature this last 2 weeks and over the course of the various courses this last year and a bit.  Also lucky in that I was able to hack the classes last fall when pain was a killer.</p>
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<p>I am looking at this as an investment in risk mitigation.</p>
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[4boysmom]

<p>Care to have that little talk with a certain offspring of mine?</p>

 

[kerfwango]

<p>That's the kind of response I give to people (well, to men) when they try to dodge helping out with some of the extracurriculars I'm involved in.</p>
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<p>Me: "I'd love to have you lead Committee X and get things in shape for us."</p>
<p>Slug: "Man, I'm really busy these days."</p>
<p>Me: "Shit, man, we're ALL busy."</p>

 

[wherestheportojohn]

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