REDOX STORIES
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A Name Printed on a Mug Is Not Personalization. It's a Template With a Blank.
The Mug That Started This Argument A friend once showed me a "personalized" gift she'd ordered for her sister's birthday — a mug with her sister's name printed in a swirly font, next to a generic illustration of a woman...
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Thirty-One Years Doesn't Fit on a Farewell Card
The Man Who Trained Four Generations of the Department Mr. Bannerjee retired last month after thirty-one years at the company — long enough that he had trained the person who trained the person who eventually trained me. Nobody currently on...
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"Thanks for Your Hard Work" Had Stopped Meaning Anything
The Meeting Where I Realised My Thank-Yous Had Stopped Landing I run a twelve-person team, and I say "thank you for your hard work" in some form during nearly every weekly meeting. At some point — I genuinely can't pinpoint...
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Our Onboarding Kit Used to Be a Branded Notebook. Nobody Remembered It.
What Our Old Welcome Kit Actually Was For the first two years of running people operations at our company, our new-hire welcome kit was the same as every other startup's welcome kit: a branded notebook, a pen with the company...
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The Day My Daughter Turned 18, I Understood That I Had Done My Job.
The Morning of Her Eighteenth Birthday My daughter Ishika woke up on her eighteenth birthday at 7 AM because she has always woken up early, which is a quality she got from her father and which I have never fully...
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My Son Is Becoming Someone I Don't Fully Know Yet. I Gave Him a Gift That Said I'm Paying Attention.
The Boy I Knew and the Person I'm Meeting My son Aryan turned sixteen last March. I have known him for sixteen years. I have also, in a different and more recent sense, been getting to know him for about...