I have used ZipCar in Boston and have to say it is great. I would never think it would succeed at $9 an hour for new model cars (Even...

Well funny story about the company where I once worked. We had to test due to a data center move. As part of the test they shut off...

I can relate to this experience of bosses who encourage everyone to be risk adverse and to only share one thought -- theirs.  I believe that voicing opinions help everyone...

I will spend part of the weekend thinking about all the men and women who have died protecting my freedom.  Thank you to everyone of the past and present who...

I will spend part of the weekend thinking about all the men and women who have died protecting my freedom.  Thank you to everyone of the past and present who...

In some ways this is actually a relief to see it happen at other places (maybe it shouldn't but it is).  I worked on a budgeting application where the decision...

I work for a company that is in a shift to being smarter.  I have only been here 6 months but we have really started the process of thinking long...

I think your view can be determined a lot by your work environment.  I came from a place that did not value IT.  The managers and such saw programmers as...

I couldn't agree more.  My boss at my former place of business got too much into the details.  He would drive design more than any manager should.  One time he told...

Well we had a key puller and a couple of extra keyboards lying around.  So when one of our co-workers had been away on vacation we rearranged the letters on his...

My old company would tell you that they would wait to see what projects you would work on and then get you the training for that job.  Then the...

I was a Jersey Boy born and raised until I went to school in NC about 10 hours South.  After that I realized how much I appreciated the lifestyle and...

I disagree about managers being your friend.  I am not looking for my manager to be my friend but if we communicate well then there is the potential for a...

That is a great cliché but it doesn't really address the bad management that can exist in a company.  Every great company has bad managers but how long they are...

I agree that this is a lot of rehashing things but seriously you cannot truly measure a bad managers impact.  It is too far reaching to be accurately calculated. 

There...