I wonder if my HR person is on Facebook? I would add her, and my boss. The people I work with are easy going so I wouldn't have...

blandry (7/31/2008)

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Although I didnt intend it, I have spent my exec management career as something of a "digital janitor", cleaning up messes that is, and I can tell you point...

My response to the VP would have been (mind you I have had a few more minutes to think about this than you did), "We'll have to conduct an audit...

Humour in the workplace is pretty much essential. My last boss had no sense of humour and working for her was rather difficult. Now I work somewhere with...

If you enjoy your work and believe in what you are doing and have a great team to work with, I doubt too many people would mind picking up the...

It depends, I was able to get a significant raise at my last job, but it was within a year and a half of starting and I had gone from...

I liked the geology comment. My sister went to Brandon but majored in music, too bad she was more interested in violins than rocks. Heck, my neighbour hadn't...

Thank you for posting this, I shall forward it to Oracle DBAs and former Oracle DBAs that I know. I enjoyed it quite a bit!

Sometimes I hear people say, "Where did the day go?", but typically that's usually because they were in meetings all day. I'd hardly call that The Zone. I...

I hadn't thought about the additional benefits of transparency until reading this. It certainly would take some worry out of leaving for a bit. Training people on everything...

This is a very good editorial and I agree, it's a shame that what is arguably one of the most important skills someone should have as an adult isn't taught...

All good advice above, I also recommend that you bring a glass of water with you. I find that if I'm presenting for any length of time, my mouth...

You also have to be working somewhere that will allow you to be effective, instead of mindlessly working with the "technical" specifications handed to you from on high. Where...

A very nice integration of SOX with your change control process. I especially liked step 11 with the yelling and finger pointing. I certainly hope that this is...

I suppose you could use an ActiveX script in DTS, or you could just write the code in notepad and rename it .vbs. What I'd recommend of course is...