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Eric M Russell (1/4/2017)The key to job security is insuring that you're never just a cog...
January 16, 2017 at 8:00 pm
TheFault (5/10/2016)
In my mid thirties now and pretty much put off by the demands of IT.
This happened to me, when I was a permie too. I worked for a...
May 10, 2016 at 4:05 am
Japie Botma (5/10/2016)
May 10, 2016 at 3:05 am
I'm 66, today actually, and I've just finished a contract as Oracle Rdb DBA on OpenVMS, a legacy skill. I started in 1976 taking a programming course, as...
May 10, 2016 at 12:49 am
Gary,
Apart from the dollars for extra hours worked and some personal satisfaction, did you receive any other benefits for your efforts e.g. new contract thereafter, glowing reference, gesture of...
January 13, 2016 at 9:45 am
I used a personal credit card once for a job to get vendor after hours support then my boss had to fight purchasing to get me paid back. I...
December 22, 2015 at 9:42 am
TheFault (12/22/2015)
December 22, 2015 at 9:15 am
I think you missed an and: compensation should be about results AND hours.
Excellent point, Mike. Putting in extra time to solve a problem and not succeeding is...
December 20, 2015 at 3:58 am
If you were smart enough to develop this "defeat device", wouldn't you want to tell someone about it ie your boss and perhaps snag a pay rise? If...
November 17, 2015 at 5:32 pm
Sean,
To get to know an A380 inside and out to be able to handle it in all normal situations takes an experienced commercial pilot many hours.
However, the basic...
November 17, 2015 at 2:13 am
I too am sceptical that management didn't know. If it genuinely didn't know, it needs to explain to the world, how the rogue developers were able to keep this...
November 16, 2015 at 7:00 am
A former colleague opined that a suit is easy, so you don't need to make a decision about what to wear. I've worked in different countries and it's only...
July 19, 2015 at 4:52 am
Sqlserver 7.0. Was it then that the feature was introduced to configure automatic index generation?
Nice feature in the RIGHT hands, but Microsoft either forgot to mention it or emphasise...
January 29, 2014 at 1:58 am
I believe that these types of rules are intended to discourage frivolous expenditure but inevitably indicate weak management lower down (perhaps the CEO is a micromanager). Unfortunately, they...
August 29, 2013 at 6:39 am
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