[Hrgeeks] What the french toast?

[Toxicboy Glaves]

Am I to understand that Rajinikanth a superhero?! I guess he's no mere
mortal in India! looks like a man to me tho.

On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Erin <ewinningham at gmail.com> wrote:
> Today at work, I recieved an interesting email at work from a Unix
> administrator in India that left the company.  In the spirit of sharing, I'm
> including a copy.  Does anyone else have any interesting stories of
> departing employees?
>
> I'm going to have my coffee and read this again to try and decipher it.
>
> ***
> Hi,
>
> Change is an integral part of life!!
>
> Self-schema refers to the beliefs and ideas people have about themselves.
> These beliefs are used to guide and organize information processing,
> especially when the information is significant to the self. Self-schemas are
> important to a person's overall self-concept.
>
> Once we have developed a schema about ourselves there is a strong tendency
> for that schema to be maintained by a bias in what we attend to, a bias in
> what we remember, and a bias in what we are prepared to accept as true about
> ourselves. In other words our self-schema becomes self-perpetuating. The
> self-schema is then stored in long-term memory and both facilitates and
> biases the processing of personally relevant information. Self-schemas vary
> from person to person because each individual has very different social and
> cultural life experiences. A few examples of self-schemas are; exciting/
> dull, quiet/ loud, healthy/ sickly, athletic/ nonathletic, lazy/ active, and
> geek/ jock. If a person has a schema for geek/ jock, for example, he might
> think of himself as a bit of a computer geek and so he would possess a lot
> of information about that
> trait. Because of this he would probably interpret a lot of situations based
> on their relevance to being a geek.
>
> While every schema varies from cultural backgrounds, etc., there are
> different ways of defining the schemas themselves. First, there is
> schematic, which means having a particular schema for a particular
> dimension. For instance, you could play in a rock band at night, and there
> you would have your "rocker" schema. However, during the day, you work as a
> tire salesman, so you have your "tire salesman" schema on during that period
> of time.
>
> Another good example of this are super heroes, such as the ones in comic
> books. People like Rajinikanth, Superman, Spider-Man, The Hulk, etc., all
> have their schema for when they are just doing their normal job during the
> day. However, when duty calls, they adorn their superhero schema. Second,
> there is a schematic, which is not having a schema for a particular
> dimension. This usually occurs when we are not involved with or concerned
> about a certain attribute. For instance, some of us will never be tire
> salesmen, so some of us will never have to worry about it. This also
> includes schoolwork to a particular level. If you plan on being a musician,
> then having a schema in aeronautics will not attribute to you.
>
> Since it has been defined that most people have multiple schemas does this
> mean that we all have multiple personalities as well? The answer is no. At
> least not in the pathological sense. Indeed, for the most part, multiple
> self-schemas are extremely useful to us in our daily lives. Without our
> conscious awareness, they help us make rapid decisions and to behave
> efficiently and appropriately in different situations and with different
> people. They guide what we attend to, and how we interpret and use incoming
> information and they activate specific cognitive, verbal, and behavioral
> action sequences—which in cognitive psychology are called scripts and action
> plans—that help us meet our goals more efficiently.
>
> As most of you know, today is my last day with the company. It is with a
> heavy heart that I must say goodbye to all of my friends and colleagues
> here, many of whom I have seen on a daily basis.
>
> I’d like to thank all the guys at work for the great ride. It was great
> getting to know you all and to get a chance to work with every single one of
> you. I hope that we’ll get to carry our personal relationships well on into
> the future.
> ***
>
> E
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