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  • RE: Letting People Go Securely

    I've had valuable employees in previous lives who were upset that they didn't get asked to leave immediately when they turned in their two weeks' notice. In a couple cases,...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Jason Miller (3/16/2009)


    Please forgive the ramblings. I broke my ankle in a couple of spots, so the meds are making me a bit foggy. Fortunately, I cushioned the...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind

    Steve Jones - Editor (3/11/2009)


    David Reed (3/11/2009)


    even though he still thinks I'm a rude/ugly American with the manners of a goat

    😎

    Now that's interesting. I'd go with the Ugly American, us...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind

    noeld (3/11/2009)


    Nobody voted "yes" on my April Fool's idea last year to port all of the Oracle sample databases to SQL Server 2008.

    I like it!

    It was funny... until Sybase (partially)...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind

    Phil Factor (3/11/2009)


    Because AdventureWorks exists, and it is very wonderful, isn't a reason for suggesting that there shouldn't be others. I'd argue that it is perfectly legitimate to want to...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind

    We did get some great feedback on AdventureWorksLT @ the summit and some folks volunteered to begin doing work to make it what the community needs it to be. I'm...

  • RE: Guest Editorial: Improving Northwind

    Let me see if I get this right, Phil... You want to create a committee to "replace" a database designed by a committee?

    😛

    Did you come to the Official AdventureWorks Committee™...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Jack Corbett (3/10/2009)


    Ralph Hightower (3/10/2009)


    Irish Flyer (3/6/2009)


    David Reed (3/6/2009)


    Our meetings are short and have agendas. They are for distributing knowledge quickly and evenly, not time wasting.

    Hey, that's a good...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Robert Davis (3/6/2009)


    dphillips (3/6/2009)


    Robert Davis (3/6/2009)


    Since we're talking wish list here, I would like to petition for 4 day work weeks (4 x 10 hours) as the standard.

    Why stop there?...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Jack Corbett (3/6/2009)


    As far as my wish list, I'd like to have at least one major conference (PASS Summit, SQLConnections, etc...) trip at least every other year and a training...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Irish Flyer (3/6/2009)


    David Reed (3/6/2009)


    I hear you about the Kawi, I have a vintage R1 Turbo I like to let out of its cage periodically. Fortunately I live in...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Robert Davis (3/6/2009)


    David Reed (3/6/2009)


    Do you have weather that lets me ride the Kawi 6R to work 350 days a year? (OK, it was chilly @ 25°F this morning, but...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Anye Mercy (3/6/2009)


    Tomm & David Reed,

    I like the work I do. I like spending time with my friends and family more, but it doesn't pay the bills. That's...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    Irish Flyer (3/6/2009)


    David,

    Some of us actually have a life. We only work to support our real life away from the job. If you have to be forced to...

  • RE: Union Benefits

    SQLSimon (3/6/2009)


    The US standard for vacation is just 2 weeks????

    2 weeks? I'm stunned.

    2 weeks?

    Why? The only reason I take those two weeks is that if I don't use 'em...

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