Your Daughter Will Love This Custom Bedroom art

   Hand Crafted Custom Decor Art on recycled wood plaques

 Originating from the gentle hills of Martinsburg, West Virginia, each custom and unique decor art piece is hand cut and finished by the loving hands of the old school craftsman JB "Pop" Stran.

Elephant Lovers is a recent example of the laser etched custom art decor from Pop's shop. Local poplar boards are stained a light walnut that blends perfectly with any oak or walnut decor scheme.

  Both images are actually the same piece, and part of a truly unique two-faced Flip Art series exclusively from Pop!

 True OOAK art decor using recycled woods and natural leather hangers at local friend prices.

 Our most popular decor pieces include the new Flip Art wall plaques (shown above and below), the customized *Scrabble tile bedroom signs, and the highly prized Coin Collector plaques.

 
 The Winnie and Tigger set is our most popular Flip Art among gift buyers looking for the perfect decor item for a little girl's bedroom or playroom.
 There is currently a two week waiting list for this custom set which includes laser etched images and a hand-rubbed light or dark walnut finish.

 Custom art from similar artists average $75 each but Pop's Flip Art pieces are flying away at less than $25 for Two images!


 To get Pop's attention as soon as possible, send an email to Pop57@comcast.net or for an even faster and more personal response you can text him directly with your customization requests to  304.620.9235 any time of day and he will get back to you very soon.

 Pop's Shopify store is currently carrying samples of finished items that have as yet been unclaimed.
Every OOAK art decor piece shown in the store is handmade and actively in stock and can be shipped immediately. One Of A Kind (OOAK) art is the most highly collectible and valued form of art because there is not another one exactly like it anywhere. You own the Only One!

 Looking for a bit more than bedroom or nursery art?
  Look into Pop's OOAK Shop for original and classic Americana art decor for the kitchen, dining room and more. Featuring recovered and restored hand crafted items from farms and lost homes in the Panhandle area.

Drop by Pop's Custom art shop at https://martinsburgphotos.myshopify.com/ and browse the available fully hand crafted custom decorative art pieces that have been ordered and completed, but for various reasons have yet remain unclaimed. Make one yours today!


2020/01/11  JB Stran



*Scrabble is a registered trademark of Hasbro. Our tiles are collected from salvaged game sets.

  

The Dehumanizing Treatment of Employees

 Tales from a Toxic Work Environment #1

 Now that we have reached the so-called Age of Enlightenment, wherein socially conscious managers would never dream of forcing arcane rules or personal whims on their underlings, it is considered by most people to be at the very least morally wrong for a supervisor to intentionally create a hostile work environment for personal or emotional pleasure.

 This is exactly the type of behavior I have witnessed on multiple occasions at the P&G Tabler Station plant however, regardless of plant, company or corporate policies. 

 Because to be blunt; Policies don't mean squat in the day-to-day, minute-by-minute operations of a manufacturing plant when people with little to no proper management training are making the little decisions that will affect the lives of their team members.

 In one recent example, a low-level (bottom rung) manager of only three team members with a reputation for constant sexual harassment of female employees set his sights on a newly hired young lady on his team.

 He asked her out repeatedly, and she was placed in the awkward position of needing to explain that she was not only engaged but also not really interested in him, while at the same time preserving his fragile ego so that her new career would not be jeopardized by making an enemy of her new boss.

 Being a friend of a friend, I was allowed to follow this drama through first hand sharing and second-hand followups. She was a sweet kid, and I have a grandfather vibe, so we talked on occasion. 

 Because she was an adult, I didn't presume to stick my two cents into another adult's story.

I never notified HR or anyone who maybe could help her because I tend my own garden.

  Anyway, she seemed to be taking it fairly well in the early stages, and showed a solid sense of humor about the whole thing in general. That is until a few weeks ago when she decided that he had gone too far.

 Because he was the first approval for requested vacation days, she had submitted a request to take her birthday off so she could spend it with her fiance.

 Her request for the day off was denied, despite it being a valid request in every sense. She was disappointed but mature about it, until her boss took that same day off himself. She was convinced that he was exhibiting a childishly spiteful abuse of power, and rubbing her nose in it to boot.
 {if she was nicer to him, he might be nicer to her...}

 She then requested a transfer to another line, any line, in the hope of starting fresh with a fair manager. This request too was denied. Her boss was also an excellent underling, and held in fine regard by all of his supervisors (middle management) because he tells them what they want to hear and appears eager to learn. 

 In my experience, this usually means an ambitious and hungry jackal has his eye on his next promotion, but that's not my problem. The point is, he had their collective ear and if he wanted autonomous control over a team member it was a simple matter of placating his own bosses with some well crafted bullshit.  

 So, feeling trapped with a childish and vindictive drama queen of a boss, this young girl with aspirations of a career with Proctor and Gamble simply quit her new job to seek greener and less painful pastures.

  Her friends suggested an exit interview, so that at the very least someone from HR would listen to her reasons for leaving, even if she chose not to pursue proper recourse.  I don't know if that meeting ever happened; We rotate shifts regularly, so I came in one day and she was just gone.

 It's a shame that stories like hers rarely get told, and maybe that's why I bothered to write it out here for you to peruse. Maybe her life is much better now. Maybe she is reading this with you and smiling at the wasted tears she allowed some saddle-sniffer to extract from her.

 Maybe you or a friend are in a similar situation, and shedding a few tears of your own, and hoping for encouragement. The best advice I can offer is to speak up and speak out.

 Don't allow dark intentions to remain in the dark.

 Drop by the HR office, or just drop an email asking for some advice on how best to correct any misunderstandings you may have with your boss.

 Shedding some light on small miscommunications or outright mistreatment has a wonderful way of bringing the sun out again. 

 And you deserve a bit more sunshine in your life, don't you?