Are you a dog?

I have been through a lot of training the last three weeks. From this training I have learned that you must immediately reward workers for doing good things and correct those that do bad things. The funny thing is this is the same thing that is done to train dogs. I have a friend who has a puppy. We were at his place and the dog did some good things so he rewarded him. The dog also started barking so he had to correct him. This is essentially what I get paid to do. I am paid to correct behavior both good and bad. It is kind of sad that the training goes back to how you train a dog though.

Today I also had to do something that sucked. At Target they have some nice furniture. Target also likes to change their stock quite frequently so they can always have fresh and trendy items. There is a really nice desk set at the store that I wanted to buy. The sad thing is they were all sold out and we aren't carrying them any more. The sad thing is I had to destroy a perfectly good piece of furniture. A piece of furniture that I would have gladly paid for. But because it was a display piece it had to be destroyed. I had a to watch a REALLY nice desk get destroyed in the compactor. It was perfectly fine they just don't want any liability issues or theft issues. I wish they would donate those things though rather than destroy them.

But such is life, some times the things we want have to be destroyed! I'm sure I will find a desk set that I like just as much or I can go online and buy the one I wanted. So I will have to see what I can find.