My husband and I "unschool" our children...there are so many reasons to do so, but one is to not get caught in the trap of competing for top grades/positions/highest honors...and to find and follow their own dreams/passions/giftings/standards for success.
I both love that hardworking server who has a knack for making their guests feel attended to, AND I see the debacle for those who just need to show up and do their job w/o being compared to that server. It's really quite a complex issue; one that I suspect is very situational.
About a year ago, everyone in my division received a calendar invite for a “Meeting Free Lunch” from 12-1pm everyday. Especially with most folks remote, it was easy to have a day of wall to wall meetings with no break. This ensured that everybody’s calendar was “booked” for 1 hour of personal time per day, either to eat lunch or attend to other personal business and meetings couldn’t be scheduled during that time except in extreme circumstances (a timely project, for example). It’s a good idea and I would love to see it implemented elsewhere.
Capitalist structures pay for socialist structures through production and service innovations, while socialist structures support capitalist development by shielding large portions of life from the depredations of efficiency and profit-taking, making life with capitalism (at minimum) bearable. But you need a functioning capitalism, where the capitalist class actually takes its losses and resets the gameboard after failures, and you need a functioning socialism, where the people and civic organizations are actually able to acquire/provide the care and resources they need. In the US, we really have neither at this time. Both are in need of major reform.
These questions go well beyond food service. In education, for example, there is an ongoing battle on how to support and develop the "gifted and talented" without making the less-than-G&T feel less than human.
As usual, such great food for thought!
My husband and I "unschool" our children...there are so many reasons to do so, but one is to not get caught in the trap of competing for top grades/positions/highest honors...and to find and follow their own dreams/passions/giftings/standards for success.
I both love that hardworking server who has a knack for making their guests feel attended to, AND I see the debacle for those who just need to show up and do their job w/o being compared to that server. It's really quite a complex issue; one that I suspect is very situational.
About a year ago, everyone in my division received a calendar invite for a “Meeting Free Lunch” from 12-1pm everyday. Especially with most folks remote, it was easy to have a day of wall to wall meetings with no break. This ensured that everybody’s calendar was “booked” for 1 hour of personal time per day, either to eat lunch or attend to other personal business and meetings couldn’t be scheduled during that time except in extreme circumstances (a timely project, for example). It’s a good idea and I would love to see it implemented elsewhere.
Capitalist structures pay for socialist structures through production and service innovations, while socialist structures support capitalist development by shielding large portions of life from the depredations of efficiency and profit-taking, making life with capitalism (at minimum) bearable. But you need a functioning capitalism, where the capitalist class actually takes its losses and resets the gameboard after failures, and you need a functioning socialism, where the people and civic organizations are actually able to acquire/provide the care and resources they need. In the US, we really have neither at this time. Both are in need of major reform.
These questions go well beyond food service. In education, for example, there is an ongoing battle on how to support and develop the "gifted and talented" without making the less-than-G&T feel less than human.
(N.b., a proud resident of Mercer County, NJ)