Re: just was put on disability indefinitely .

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I can’t help but think you have SOME skills that might be helpful for a little “extra on the side” as it were.

Anything, I mean, rare is the human that has NO skills or abilities at all.

I don’t care if the person is the building janitor – there are skills, knowledge and abilities involved.

A prime example is a person who was hired here a couple of years ago when this agency hired their own cleaning and maintenance (Before DAS took that away from us) Robert was part of this agency and as such, this was “his building”. Everything was SPOTLESS. Every bit of tile, chrome/stainless, porcelain, carpet, walls, all perfect. Paint imperfections were quickly taken care of. This was known as the cleanest building in the capital complex, in big part thanks to Robert. We were at a team building thing one day, he was there. We were to list things we thought might be important about our own jobs and how it impacted the services to our clients. He was totally convinced he had no part or role in how our clients were served. When asked about his list, he said he was “just a janitor” or cleaning person and he couldn’t see how what he did had any effect on anything. I was quite unhappy and stood right up and listed all the things he did, and how it impacted each and every one of us, and ended up impacting the services to our clients in a very big way because of us working in such a well kept place that was always clean, and the great services he gave. How his positive “hi, how are you” attitude made us all feel good and it got passed all the way up the chain. He always greeted you, no matter who you were, always friendly, helpful, never complained. I have never seen such a clean public building, let alone such clean spotless well-kept restrooms in a public building.

I got the man a few cheers. He’s important – he needed to know that he had skills, and not everyone could do what he did. We knew – we’d been through a few people before him. What a difference he made. He had people skills AND cleaning skills.

My point, long as that was, is that everyone has something to offer – list a few things you can do or like to do…….. see if you can find a place or need for them. Check in here – maybe someone will have some suggestions. Do you have phone skills, are you good talking with people? Volunteer……. it might lead to something good.

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