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Last Thursday, my wife and I took our daughter to a store for me to get new shoes. They were worn beyond repair. Afterward, we decided to get something to eat because of the time.
While eating, my wife asked our daughter what she wanted for her 12th birthday, at the time, less than a week away. She replied, "Shoes." When we asked her why she didn't get some while at the shoe store, her reply humbled us. "They're for the kids that don't have them."
Let that sink in.. from an 11 year old, wanting shoes for kids that don't have them...
My wife mentioned it on social media and our friends responded. So far, she has somewhere around 40 pairs to shoes to give away (not sure of the exact count because I received a text message this morning saying more had been left in a bag for us, but I haven't got to the bag yet.)
And, last night, she received a check from her mother's cousin for her birthday - she wants the money to be used for shipping the shoes as needed.
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When our children do things like that I know that the human race will be better off in the future.
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Unless we mess it up somewhere in between.
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Mess up? Who?? We???
Never happened before. Right?
... such stuff as dreams are made on
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Programmers do not make mistakes, they mess up. 
I am not the one who knocks. I never knock.
In fact, I hate knocking.
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Nice to know there's hope for the next generation. And you and your wife definitely deserve kudos for how you're raising your daughter.
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Funny isnt it, how moralistic kids can be.
Back in primary school my daughter was about 8, and her groups friends decided one of them wasnt welcome in the group that day. My daughter said "well if she isnt, I am not either" and went off and played with the excluded girl.
Such consideration, such maturity from one so young, it really makes you think.
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If more kids had the same ideals the world would be a lot better place.
Someone's therapist knows all about you!
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Your daughter may be only 11, but she has the wisdom of Solomon and a heart of gold to boot. And clearly parents who've instilled a good set of values in her. You are a blessed family. ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: heart of gold to boot
I hope pun was not the sole purpose of your post.
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Sorry if it came across serious, of course I knew you were not just responding for puns. However, I was just starting a pun by responding to you (sole). 
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Rajesh R Subramanian wrote: Sorry if it came across serious
Knot at all!
/ravi
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Thank you, I'm now laced with relief to boot.
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The shoe's on the other foot, I see.
/ravi
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Is that a tongue in cheek comment?
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These are the bonus moments of being a parent... and be asured - not all parents have them. So while giving full credit to your wonderfull kid, you can take a 'great job' for yourself too...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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So much empathy and maturity in a 11 year old. The world has a better future for sure.
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As we monitor the activities of our customers, we could see there's so much of non-peak hours where there's 0 activity happening on the floor. After observing this pattern for a while , I felt like "There you go! Let's wear that business consultant hat and call up the manager of a company & explain about how we could do effective resource optimizations, and bring down idle time of employees".(just to boast how our intelligent software is ,helping to spot weak links in their company's operations )
Me: Hello Sir, great day to you. Like I've given a hint over email about Resource optimizations, we could explore further on how we could tweak the resource utilizations.
Manager: Sure
*Me:* I see a lot of idle time in our activity monitor of your team. During this time your employees simply sit and do nothing?
*Manager:* No we'll all be chatting together.
*Me (in mind):* Well, okay let me go back and tweak my software.
I felt it so funny that he is completely okay to leave his employees gossip around and do nothing during off peak hours.
Hehe
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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On the other hand, maybe he figures it's good for staff and morale if they all get to wind down and chill between the really busy periods?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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Yeah , could be. As long as they are doing good with their business, all these chill offs are okay 
I just found it funny how he literally took the word "idle time" lol
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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I agree - I have done the burn out dance and it's much healthier to have a balance than being 100% all the time.
which also reminds me of a boss who made a big song and dance, as he was wont to do, of knowing how frequently reports were run and who ran them.
So I created a report to show this.
He hadn't figured out that the very report itself would keep track of how many times it had been run and by whom - so a few months later I took a peek and guess who had looked at the report a total of once - yes the boss...
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
modified 27-Sep-17 9:34am.
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Vunic wrote: I felt it so funny that he is completely okay to leave his employees gossip around and do nothing during off peak hours.
You call it "doing nothing"; may I install a keylogger on your system and ask each time why you were doing "nothing" when there is no recorded activity?
That kind of micromanagement is usually frowned upon; next thing you'll be timing how long people spend on the toilet.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Hehe actually it's in context with 0 sales hours.
Starting to think people post kid pics in their profiles because that was the last time they were cute - Jeremy Falcon.
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Does not provide me with context; all you see is that your application is not used during those hours, no additional information given
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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