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Miles Neale (2/8/2013)
Over the years we were reformed, changed, we "matured".
I totally understand, Miles. That's called growing up. There's nothing wrong with passion, and I don't think that...
February 8, 2013 at 9:58 am
Gary Varga (2/8/2013)One chap responded said that he wanted to be a manager and when asked of what he said that it didn't matter.
Gary,
Like I said before, it's about control....
February 8, 2013 at 8:09 am
"They're productive, but it's boring. Sounds are muted, there's no animation from the employees, it just seems like it could be an accounting firm as much as it could be...
February 8, 2013 at 7:36 am
That is a very typical repsonse from a micromanager. As I said before, they don't tend to like people to know that they don't have their priorities in order, so...
February 7, 2013 at 11:48 am
""Doctor, come quickly! Buffer Cache Hit Ratio is way down; Disk Queue Length is through the roof, Page Life Expectancy has dipped below the magic '300'. "
These are all Performance...
February 6, 2013 at 2:18 pm
Steve Jones - SSC Editor (2/6/2013)
but by the same token I think users sometimes don't understand the data we see.good to keep both things in perspective.
I think there is...
February 6, 2013 at 11:24 am
Alex Gay (2/6/2013)
February 6, 2013 at 9:03 am
I read this piece on micro-managers once and always thought that it was spot on. Read on:
"A micromanager is one of the most frustrating and demoralizing forces in the workplace....
February 4, 2013 at 10:35 am
I think Google is reading way too much of their own press clippings and it is going to their heads. 😀
January 30, 2013 at 7:57 am
We have one legacy 32-Bit SQL box. The rest are all 64-Bit installs. It's our standard install simply because 64-bit architecture blows right past the 3 GB barrier and can...
January 28, 2013 at 7:26 am
Argo was one of the better "edge of your seat films" I have seen in a while. It wasn't a big box office draw but man was it a good...
January 25, 2013 at 9:01 am
Scenario One: Plane crashes due to human error.
Scenario Two: Plane crashes due to computer software error.
Personally, if I were on that plane, it wouldn't really concern me what...
January 24, 2013 at 10:33 am
majorbloodnock (1/21/2013)[/b
If your company is happy with your hiring decisions, then keep doing it the way you do. However, unless you experience a far higher staff turnover than your competitors,...
January 22, 2013 at 12:03 pm
I am not sure that I would entrust the safekeeping and storage of the only thing that can decrypt my production databases in case of emergency, to my end-user community....
January 22, 2013 at 11:04 am
I don't have a problem with flexibility/changes per say. However, I do tend to have a problem with people/users who can't seem to make up their mind about what they...
January 22, 2013 at 10:49 am
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