Category Archives: ProTip

#protip Success

#protip Please stop telling people how to define their own success. This is especially all you “Namaste” people. Each person defines their own definition of success, and no definition is more or less legitimate for that person. But, trying to force your belief of what success is, THAT is not legitimate.

So, all you people who think you have it all figured out, stfu. The rest of us don’t want to hear it. We are perfectly capable of deciding what each of us considers success. Sure, share what YOU think is success for YOU, but stop trying to tell us what WE *should* do. No, I don’t care how helpful your intentions are, it is still insulting and insensitive. Thank you.

(Hmmm maybe that was a #latenightrant after all) via Facebook

Restrooms

I’m chiming in on the bathroom discrimination laws. I have the perfect fix, which should have been implemented decades ago.

#ProTip: Stop making public restrooms such demeaning and degrading places in order to save yourself a few bucks and make each toilet an individual room. No more communal restrooms which force you to do your business surrounded by a bunch of strangers. Every toilet has its own separate door and room. Not stall, actual individual restrooms. That solves many problems.

First of all, no more super long lady’s lines and short men’s lines (or vice versa at sporting events). Everyone stands in the same line and just takes the next open room.

No more bashful bladder problems.

No more problems with mom or dad bringing a different gender child in.

No more trying to tinkle in a room where someone is having serious bowel problems.

And, of course, no more gender identification problems.

Communal restrooms are constructed just to save the corporations a few bucks, and then we are forced to deal with all the issues they cause. It is demeaning that the places of business think so little of their customers as not to provide them with decent facilities.

All restrooms should immediately be converted to individual rooms and all future restrooms should be converted. That solves ALL these problems caused just by the desire to save a few bucks. via Facebook

#ProTip: Dear PR, It is Not “Highest Priority”

#ProTip: Dear PR people, we love you, but please do not send emails marked “Highest Priority.” It usually indicates one of two things. 1) You (or your client) is way behind and this is a last minute thing. To me, the recipient, that says, “This is going to create extra work for you because you have to rearrange your day to try to get it into the publication right away, so you should probably just ignore it.” Or 2) You (or your client) thinks your stuff is so much more important than anyone else’s. This says to me, “I am going to be very annoying and bothersome, and create extra work, so you should probably just ignore it.” Either way, “Highest Priority” always has a bad connotation.

If you want to indicate that something is timely, please just put the date in the subject line. It is so much more polite and it actually conveys useful knowledge to the recipient in a convenient manner. Thank you! via Facebook