HR
Maybe I Has a Condition [sic]
Grammatical challenges aside, the aforementioned title is an actual statement said to me by an employee when approached with issues surrounding their work performance. No matter what the issue, behavioral, attendance, or performance, it seems that there is now a medical reason for every deficiency. Notwithstanding those who have legitimate medical concerns that do affect [...]
Work/Life Dissonance
Several years ago, I came to the realization that I had developed two different personas in my early professional career. I realized this one day on the drive home from work when leaving someone a voice mail that I said “Ramona” rather than the familiar “Mona” nickname that I used with family and friends. I [...]
The Land of BS
Last weekend, I found myself using skills I learned in the workplace negotiating a sales agreement for a new sectional sofa and an ottoman. After a period of making a selection and choosing several different options for our new furniture, it was finally time to focus on the dirty details. Cost. Everyone seems to get [...]
Learning From Other’s Mistakes
With the economy in the toilet, many folks have gotten a cruel wake up call. Those workers who survived on luxuries such as overtime, bonuses, and generous merit increases are now struggling to pay their car notes, mortgages, and other numerous bills. What I can’t understand is why people feel that they can determine what [...]
Selective Influence
I often say to my husband, friends, and professional colleagues that one of my goals in life is to surround myself with people I want to be more like. As a lifetime learner, I find that this applies to both professional and social settings. If you surround yourself with people you can learn [...]
Faking It
No, this isn’t what you think I’m talking about so get your mind out of the gutter. Today on CNN, there was a great video clip about faking job happiness in this economy. There’s a lot to be taken from this video clip, as it truly is deeper than its seemingly obvious message.
I always tell [...]
Union Reparations
Vice-President, Joe Biden was quoted yesterday as saying on CNBC, “I do believe–and I make no apologies for it–that over the last 100 years the middle class was built on the back of organized labor. Without their weight, heft and their insistence starting in the early 1900s we wouldn’t have the middle class we have [...]
Worst Case Scenario – Impending Layoffs
I’m one of those people who has never tried drugs or had any interest in trying drugs (boring, I know), but one of my quips when people criticize me for my lack of curiosity and experimentation, is that I am always confident that if I were offered the opportunity of a lifetime, I would not [...]
IT Heretics
While sifting through my feeds today I came across a great summation of IT culture in organizations written by Cory Doctorow, a co-editor for Boing Boing.
Cory writes:
The dirty secret of corporate IT is that its primary mission is to serve yesterday’s technology needs, even if that means strangling tomorrow’s technology solutions. The myth of corporate [...]
