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DIALING FOR DOLLARS
If abusive clients are sapping energy — yours or your staff’s — they simply have to go! Our clients get two strikes. Heck, everyone can have a bad day. One strike leads to a nice but frank discussion that we work very hard on their case, especially our team, but will only continue on in a relationship of mutual respect. Another strike after that conversation means termination of representation. If a poison pill in your staff is bringing everyone else down, they’ve got to go! “Hire slow, fire fast” is something you hear in ALL business coaching circles. Do your absolute best to know that your new hires are aligned with your firm’s core values and culture. It’s hard to fire clients. It’s hard to fire staff. You feel sorry for both. But your “A” players deserve it, will thank you for it, and you’ll ultimately thank yourself. After all, it’s them who will help you put systems and processes in place to eliminate chaos and crazy hours so you can achieve a balanced life while doing the work you love. It really can be with happy clients you love working with, and a team who love working together.
Wannabe Bank Robber Calls Ahead, Orders Cash to Go
Any bank robber knows you have to hurry through a heist to escape. A crook in Connecticut tried a novel time-saving technique: calling ahead.
Nobody says it’s easy. But it is achievable and worth it.
Taking a cue from the take-out food craze, the wannabe bank robber called a bank in Fairfield, Connecticut, and demanded that $100,000 in large bills be prepared for him with no dye packs in the bag. If the orders were not carried out, the caller told the employee, “there will be a bloodbath.” Fairfield cops, who thought they’d seen it all, were dumbfounded. “You can’t make this stuff up,” said a spokesman for the Fairfield Police Department. Robbers have tried many routes when attempting to rob a bank, including entering the drive-through lane and terrorizing tellers through the window. But, “I’ve never had somebody call ahead and say, ‘Get the money, we’re coming,’” said a detective in the Fairfield case. In taking advantage of the telephone warning, the police were already at the scene when the robbers arrived. “I would classify these individuals as ‘not too bright,’” the police spokesman said. The employee who answered the robber’s call immediately hung up and called 9-1-1. The thief’s accomplice, a minor, was already inside the bank when the managers initiated a lockdown. The accomplice passed the teller a note and collected about $900, but police stopped him as he left the bank. The fleeing accomplice was undoubtedly disappointed when the bag exploded in dye after throwing it on the ground. (Bank employees had disregarded the robbers’ phone order that no dye packs be tucked in with the cash. You just can’t get good service these days.) The accomplice and the robber who placed the call, who had been sitting in a car nearby, were both arrested at the scene without incident. The adult suspect, Albert Bailey, was on probation for a different bank hold-up several years earlier. Both were charged with first-degree robbery and threatening in the first degree.
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it all up to God” and thrive in the face of losing a son, a daughter, a husband, and son-in-law to difficult deaths, just months apart. Enough to cripple someone into depression. But she thrived by giving it up to God. Mom didn’t waste a moment in self-pity, victimhood, or bitterness, but was healed by loving her family, and loving everyone, without a pause, as she always had. Nothing in her ever changed. She remained selfless as always, and her faith conquered all. Mom’s life as the loving wife she gave to Dad, the loving mother she gave to us, and the loving grandmother she gave to her grandchildren was a blessing beyond anything deserved. She put everyone else first. And herself last. Always. If it’s possible to gracefully, peacefully, and joyfully go down swinging, that’s how she passed. So, when we’re troubled, we’ll take note and try to add a little more of her secret sauce. And give it up to God. It worked for her. With the promise of knowing that mom is experiencing the unimaginable joy of Christ’s Kingdom, reuniting with her loved ones there, we know also that she awaits all of us. That brings us peace.
Whenever we hear happy birds chirping in the morning, we’ll think of her song.
Thank you, Lord, for our time with her.
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