I received a phone call asking, "hey, are you here yet?" I felt a sudden pucker as I was supposed to shoot a ceremony but had not received a confirmation. Turns out, there was! Except it was confirmed 2 weeks prior to the event and somehow wasn't placed on the schedule! What the!? I got my things together, dove into my most hip outfit and booked it to the location. Fortunately, the location was about 4 minutes from my house. (I love living Downtown!) The elevator doors yawned open revealing a young, masculine, good looking half filipino photographer. My entry was gloriously unnoticed. Owell...
I was briefed and began doing my 'thang'. Awards were handed out to those who deserved it. Nurses, Doctors, medical field working people of all kind were acknowledged for their hard work. I was a ninja, darting and diving like a dolphin who knows martial arts. I shot people eating, conversing, and the occasional announcement with a sprinkle of medical humor that totally went over my head as I looked around in confusion while everyone else were laughing their faces off. It was a good night
Absolute control is the most important part of your business. This whole "open source" nonsense will quickly fade into the sunset, and nobody in your organization is going to come up with ideas as good as yours. Employees don't think on their own, they need a strong leader to tell them when to be at work, when to take a smoke break, and how to iron their pants.
Many people all over the world have asked me how I accomplish such a tight reign on my staff and I always tell them the same thing, founder photo's. At frshnk we believe that if someone is watching over your shoulder at all times you wouldn't dare check your Facebook. Tweet on my time and "I'm a watchin". Since Chris and I can't be in every cubicle at the same time (I mean after all we do have four and I am not a super hero) we demand that everyone on staff either utilize our image as their desktop or have one framed (a minimum of 8x10) on their desk next to their monitor.
So I'm a little bit of a geek. I love having the latest and greatest little gadgets and programs. Since I've been banished to a pc I'm running windows on my laptop. So I figured why not have the latest and greatest version of windows. Enter windows 7. So what did I do while I had all that time off from work over the holidays? Spend time with my family? Eat lots of turkey and take longs naps? Watch the It's a wonderful life marathon? yes (except for It's a wonderful life) But more importantly I put Windows 7 on my computer. It brings the pride back into my laptop. Of course it won't keep me from loving apple but it is about as close as you can get to running OSX on your pc without actually running OSX and without the price tag.
Yay Microsoft, you did ok this time.
