The official Podcast for WWW.PELUSOPRESENTS.COM 

There are some people in the world who are completely unreasable.  They can make life very difficult.  How can you deal with them?  This show includes some great tactics to deal with the unreasonable and irrational!

We all have visions of who we wish to be in work and life.  Sometimes we can get close, but can we really get there?  A great deal of the things that we need to do to change are tremendously difficult. 

What HR and Management look for when deciding whom to let go in a layoff is critical when identifying how you should act at work to keep your job, but as this episode shows, it's not a gaurentee you will survive the layoff. 

Some people are in it for the money.  Some are in it to "Make A Difference."  For the latter, the question is, can you do it?  Can any one person really make a difference in this world?

It's that time of year where we highlight the most interesting or engaging Posts of the year.  We have 5 great posts for you today*

*To save on bandwidth, this show is encoded at 128kbps.  

Transparency should be everywhere, yet, there are still areas today where you don't get the information you need to know where you stand.  Why is that? What can be done about that? 

Some people feel like you don't need to be married to have a productive, safe, and fulfilling life.  Many feel that way because they are married and just don't know it. 

To get people back to work, they need to be happy with their work.  Their are five things employers should always be doing to keep employees happy and they REALLY need to be doing it with those that left and never returned because of the Pandemic.  

Another show inspired by Discovery Plus, this time it's about their business practices.  Hear how the Big company stomps on little production houses. 

Have you ever watched TV and thought: I could do that, and, you know what, I want to do that! That's how I felt about the (X) Life shows on Discovery Plus, well until I looked a little deeper!

Our organizations have complex systems, and when something isn't quite right in those systems can break down. THEN it's a never ending repair cycle.  Could an MOU help? Maybe, for a short time. 

It was the experience of Shock and Awe when I was first exposed to all the details surrounding receiving Medicare at retirement.  

Pets, or getting pets, is a big part of new relationships.  It's such a big point, we have to ask ourselves, is it unavoidable?

The question isn't do need  to continue to learn for the rest of your life.  We all do.  The real question is: What is your plan? 

Welcome to Episode 200!!  This episode includes some surprises as well as a great post of the week, which is all about starting something with a group of people, and then looking around, realizing your the only one left doing the job.  Although it's about our jobs in the professional world, ironically, it's also a very fitting subject for anyone who makes podcsts too.  ;)

In life we work to get paid, to have a roof over our heads and to put food on the table.  Sometimes, even later in life, it's a good idea to work for free, because we want to, because of what we will learn. Because it's a passon of ours!

It's no question that many companies are just bad places to be for the rank and file.  There are also some amazingly great places to work out there.  What makes them great?  Here are some ideas!

Often people get fixated on having, or not having a degree, i.e. the piece of paper.  Is a degree really that important to have?  What else is involved in getting a job beyond the piece of paper?

When you look for a job, the emotions involved can be intense with very high high's and very low low's.   Why are they so intense?  What can you do about them?  That's the point of today's show.

Also,

Happy 4th of July!!

In the early part of our lives, we go on vacation to refresh and renew. As we move on, vacations get commandeered by needs of others.  We can forget what a vacation is and what it means to us.  Is it time to think about what a vaction means to you?

Most people have minimum standards.  They won't accept anything less.  For the physical things in our lives, those minimums have been steadily increasing over time.  Is it justifiable, or are we being manipulated?

Bionics, Pandemics and the No Lives Matter Movement!

We are moving from a world of wires, to a wireless world.  Like any big shift, we are leaving some things behind in the transition.  That's why I wanted to write this love letter to wires!

There are some things in life you can learn by reading about them, attending, a class, or hearing about it.  For other things, to understand them, truly understand them, you have to experience it first hand! 

Government has issues for sure.  There is one area where government usually out performs the private sector by a wide margin: Employee Benefits.  This show asks: Is it possible to get Gov't style benefits into private sector Jobs?