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To: Shortcake
Those who give when it is not always comfortable to do so understand best what true self-sacrifice is, IMO.

LOL!!! You are correct, even though I'm laughing. We weren't laughing in the kitchen last night, though.

The gal that "runs" the kitchen asked me what I had at 8:20 - I had 3 orders of fries and 2 hot dogs. She then asked my husband who had 3 burgers. We still had 2 specials in addition. We all just scratched our heads at how many people actually took an attitude because we were done cooking.

As I said, when taken in the entire scheme of things, we all really do enjoy ourselves and willingly show up every Wednesday. The 3 of us are such a good team in the kitchen that I keep getting undermined when I push that we need some other folks to step up to the plate and help out.

95 posted on 03/13/2008 12:14:19 PM PDT by Gabz (Don't tell my mom I'm a lobbyist, she thinks I'm a piano player in a whorehouse)
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To: Gabz
As I said, when taken in the entire scheme of things, we all really do enjoy ourselves and willingly show up every Wednesday. The 3 of us are such a good team in the kitchen that I keep getting undermined when I push that we need some other folks to step up to the plate and help out.

A good team can pull off even the most daunting task - seemingly with ease. What is not necessarily understood by some observers is exactly what teamWork really means.

Years ago, I was part of a support team for engineering staff. Each month we'd all toil together barely making deadlines. At the end of each month we'd explain to management how much we needed to hire another person. Yet no one was hired.

We mistakenly thought, if they saw our hard work, all the overtime and missed lunches (all our good teamwork), the powers that be would see and think "those poor dears, let us hire them help" LOL!

After more months than I can remember, our division manager asked just why he should hire us extra help, we were, after all, getting the work done!

Lesson learned.

98 posted on 03/13/2008 1:08:45 PM PDT by Shortcake
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