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Consumer Movement and Women's Movement

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Knowing oppression, repression, and suppression, et al, is key to understanding "non-white" power dynamics.

A Better Goodness

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Being smarter than you while working as a church custodian is a movie subject. Writing is more than the spoken word in legal impact, except for the hearing need of a woman's love. Actions speak louder than words is true if writing is included as action. How can the ignorant judge an action? Checking in and building trust with a person will improve a person; how else can recognized leaders know who changed the world and it's ideas? The goodness that is a quiet person's action can be worth a politician with a quiver intending to earn luxury, which I consider the most of The Honorable.

Do Ask and Tell Nice Bigger than You See In Person

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Discriminations are to be fought against together and alone until we are accepting and understanding of people not like ourselves. The current debate about the military punishing gay soldiers is about discrimination. What about saying "nice" to describe civilians? Our society, as I see it, is, "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" about a person being nice. Use leadership in making our homeland secure and kind and respectful. Our citizens need to share bio-information if someone is nice more than pleasant company to his target audience.

Power Back Biting

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A manager at a mental health system employer once said for peer staff to "always err on the side of friendly." Bending rules of the hierarchy in advocacy, stepping through boundaries and trying to make friends with colleagues, or socializing with somebody's client can be professional and wanted. A friendly explanation in volunteering information can be penalized legally. Too often the inadequacy of an employer's rating method results in "bite them in the ass" performance reviews which highlight what was spoken too much over work accomplished.

Customer Service is All It Takes

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When needed, excellent customer service can make the difference for independence in life for the focus point of the economy. A consumer of mental health can be involved in operating equipment and systems after participating in technology purchases when the merchant offers excellent customer service. Rules against reasonable accommodations in the marketplace not based on time available of the sales force are mean spirited. The usual horror stories of a standard waiting period of 34 minutes on the phone to cancel internet service when it is not an option on the web site is punishing.

Roommate Law and Civil Harassment

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The subject of Roommate Law needs a guiding, understandable code with law enforcement back up. A funny, small time movie of yesteryear called behavior of pranksterish psychological warfare on acquaintances "effing you." Dealing out consequences or punishments to people whose behavior is not liked by adults sharing a home is not a big concern of "smile police." Fighting or moving on are not the only tools for independent living. The Sonoma County District Attorney will enforce Civil Harassment paperwork that is available to those not in dating relationships.

Respected in Image and What is Meaningful

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We need to listen to people we don't normally listen to. The facetiously termed "flat stomach competence" is rating intelligence and ability on a person's sharp communication that is clear, with fit body language, and carrying a crisp image. FSC is not respecting people by listening to how valuable the content of the message is. For both sides of the channels of communication, how do you overcome barriers of not looking competent in appearance and behavior, when the person being judged is making a worthwhile contribution to the momentary interaction or in a larger context?

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