It’s Tuesday afternoon, and as I sit in the Tampa airport waiting for my flight to Bozeman, Montana, I finally have a few minutes to briefly recap the results of our Orlando Workers’ Compensation Summit meeting held last Sunday in conjunction with the Workers’ Compensation Institute Annual Conference. As many of you know, this meeting…
We've Never Been More Connected, and We've Never Been More Alone
There is a television show on the CW Network called “Supernatural”, that is currently entering its eleventh season. The show features the adventures of two brothers, Sam and Dean Winchester, as they follow their father’s footsteps as “hunters”; fighting “evil supernatural beings of many kinds including monsters, demons, and gods that roam the earth”. There…
Bob's Top Ten Signs You Should Not Take This Job
Finding a job today can be a real challenge. And finding the right fitting job may be downright impossible. Lucky for you, there are people like me willing to share our vast experience at obtaining the wrong job and help you avoid the pitfalls that many job seekers overlook. I started to cogitate on this…
A Corporate Jester Looking for His Blind Spots
Last November I was scheduled to moderate a panel at SAWCA’s All Committee Conference at Greenbrier Resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. It was to be called “Things That Make Bob Go Hmmmm…”. David Langham, who was at the time SAWCA President, sent me the proposed description of the event sometime before it was…
Death by Corn Dog and Other Ridiculous Lawsuits
It’s time we take a brief respite from the herky jerky everyday world of workers’ compensation, and look at some other employment related stories that remind us how ridiculous the world in which we live, work and breathe is becoming. Actually, one of the tales we will review does relate to a death on the…
Listening to Failure While Calling in to Comcast Hell
Sometimes I miss the old phone company. Back when it was the merciless and heavily regulated Ma Bell monopoly, if a phone wasn’t working you could just report the outage and be done. Sometime in the next 12 to 24 hours it would miraculously start working again. There was usually nothing we had to do,…
The Shortest Hole Is Always The Most Challenging
Every once in a while I like to sneak off with a friend and get a round of golf in before heading to the office. I don’t have the time to do this as much as I would like, but I try to accomplish it whenever my stockpile of golf balls seems to be exceeding…
Change is Hard
This week we moved my 89 year old father in law into a “Continuing Care” community. It is a fancy name for a retirement center where he will live in an independent apartment, but where there are facilities available for assisted living and nursing care if and when needed. We have been working towards this…
Things That Make Me Go Hmmmmm
I am in Destin, FL this morning, at the Annual Conference of the Southern Association of Workers’ Compensation Administrators, commonly known as SAWCA. I am scheduled to moderate a panel here Friday entitled “Things That Make Bob Go Hmmmm….”. It will be the second time I have done this for the group. It is quite…
The Uber Super Duper Pooper Scooper May Lack Class (Code)
Today, dog lovers all over this great nation walk their dogs through neighborhood streets, and after they “do their business”, or “deposit a love biscuit”, the dutiful owner takes a moment to pick up the waste and carry it home with them. The telltale swinging plastic bag of poop is a sign that the responsible…