Serious question

ACU Frank

Whatever happened to Don from Mississippi? I was just thinking about some of the folks who used to be here, and he was one I thought of.

ray a

He and some others left HR Hero in September of 2005 forming their own forum. It was not an amiable split.

dbutton111

Do we know the forum address?

marc

[url]www.hrforum.net[/url]

LarryC

Who?

drehil

You know, that's really funny....they left in 2005 and people are just starting to miss them now. Remind me not to go missing around here.....I may be a skeleton before anyone starts to miss me. Too Funny!!!

ACU Frank

Well, I've only been back for two months (after a three year absence). I had previously asked about several, including Margaret.

Paul in Cannon Beach

Don pretty much has his own forum now.

marc

Correction:

thehrforum.net

for those that are interested.

Paul in Cannon Beach

Membership over there seems to have slowed. But it does appear "The Devil" joined this month but has yet to post.

Who knew Satan had HR responsibilities? I always saw the Prince of Darkness as more of a sales or marketing guy.

ACU Frank

Apparently, this thread has stirred the hornets' nest over there. I visited to see if the forum was of any value, and I was surprised to see this thread referenced... very inaccurately, I might add.

Paul in Cannon Beach

Be careful Frank. Some of the members of that other forum don't receive constructive criticism well.

That's why they are "The Ones We Never Speak Of".

ACU Frank

I thought it was because they are mostly Crackers. Not that there's anything wrong with that...

Irie

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 04-16-07 AT 01:01PM (CST)[/font][br][br]Excuse me? You're calling the other forumites "crackers"? When I posted and used that word I was severely reprimanded by the forum police!

Paul in Cannon Beach

Perhaps the forum police haven't noticed Frank's post yet or his lack of pants.

ACU Frank

It's the lack of pants that keeps them from being able to focus on the content of my posts.

But I digress.

Paul in Cannon Beach

Frank, you give the ACLU a bad name. And that is hard to do.

ACU Frank

At least I didn't call them honkies. That would have been bad.

Paul in Cannon Beach

I think "crackers" is worse. Or at least sounds worse. Honkey just sounds too funny to be offensive.

HRQ

It should be "The Ones of Whom We Never Speak," Paul. Watch those prepositions. x:-)

Paul in Cannon Beach

Wow, you really are Ray A's sidekick.

So which of these are correct:

Those of Whom We Do Not Speak
The Ones We Dont Talk about No More
The Never Spoken Of Ones
Those We Speak of Not

Margaret Morford

Frank,

You are so kind to ask about me. Tony Kessler from M. Lee Smith sent me an e-mail to let me know.

I'm so happy to see that you are all here, especially Paul, the author of the legendary Hiaku contest. Frank weren't you the winner with the one about drug testing? I see that some things never change and Ray is still not wearing pants.

I'm on the road almost constantly. My goal is to speak at every state SHRM conference. Last count was 36, when I go to Maine in a month.

The biggest news I have is that I finally wrote my first management book. My Publisher says it's doing well, but I'm never sure about this stuff. It was the 4th best selling book at the 2006 SHRM National Conference.

Will any of you be at SHRM in Las Vegas in June?. I'm doing two mega sessions. One on Politics, Power & Influence and another on the Difference Between Management and Leadership. If any of you get there, please come introduce yourself.

I miss you guys! Thanks for asking about me! Call if I can help any of you in any way.

Margaret Morford
The HR Edge
615-371-8200
[email]mmorford@mleesmith.com[/email]
[url]http://www.thehredge.net[/url]

ACU Frank

How's "The pertneer never talked 'bout, y'all"?

Paul in Cannon Beach

[font size="1" color="#FF0000"]LAST EDITED ON 04-16-07 AT 08:24PM (CST)[/font][br][br]I finally saw Margaret's post back in the middle of the thread.

ACU Frank is the WOCO Frank that won the infamous haiku contest? Is that true Frank?

For the uninitiated go here:

[url]http://www.hrhero.com/cgi-bin/employersforum/employersforum.cgi?az=show_thread&om=38&forum=DCForumID25&archive=yes[/url]

and here:

[url]http://www.hrhero.com/cgi-bin/employersforum/employersforum.cgi?az=show_thread&om=47&forum=DCForumID25&archive=yes[/url]

ACU Frank

That would be me.

I was kinder and gentler then. Haiku does that to you.

ray a

Um... Margaret.... Frank is the one who took off his pants. I'm very shy, I always wear pants.

ray a

I've wondered what had happened to you. Just one day you stopped posting.

Paul in Cannon Beach

So, if you were WOCO Frank and now you are ACU Frank, can we just call you "WACO Frank"

And why did you stop posting? Why wouldn't anyone want to hang out with us?

Hello?

HRQ

We sure do speak of them a lot, considering we do not speak of them.

Your 4th suggestion sounds very Monty Python. Or very Wayne's World, if you just add some punctuation.

A great challenge of mine is that I have trouble focusing on the content of a message if the grammar is a wreck. I have a compulsion to edit stuff to make it readable.

Years ago, I took a writing composition class. I was feeling quite full of myself when the professor told me it was very well written, technically. Then my ego deflated when he added "and it's the most boring thing I've ever read." He said he'd rather see more excitement and less "perfection." The story of my life. x;-)

ray a

So HRQ, you are unexcitingly perfect?

ACU Frank

I went to an employer who didn't really want me to think for myself... just to execute whatever directives corporate set out. They wouldn't pay for any subscriptions, memberships, or anything else. They also wouldn't let me access this site or even SHRM's site from work. I was also working under a restriction that called for my termination if I was ever found to post anything related to company information of a "sensitive" nature, which would pretty much be everything. So, rather than pay to renew my HR Hero subscription out of my own pocket, be able to access it only from home, and to risk my job everytime I posted, I went into hiding.

I guess you can tell how happy I was working there. :P