Got to agree with you there Eric. In the immortal words of Will Rogers: "This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the...

Jeff Moden (10/12/2012)

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My favorite and, possibly, most outrageous example of such "innovation gone wild" is the fellow that submitted a CLR that he wanted me to install on one of...

Miles Neale (10/12/2012)

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Meetings can be good. However, they need to be short, to the point, make decisions, and not be rambling sessions where everyone gets their say three or...

Bill Gates once said "Microsoft is not about greed. It's about innovation and fairness." Coming from him, I'm not sure whether that statement is true or just hypocritcal.:-D

dogramone (10/11/2012)

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I have a very strict self rule on working from home, I won't. Two key reasons. Firstly as a project manager I feel I need to alwaays...

Actually, I have known people, with children particularly, that actually come to work because it is less noisy and less interuptions than being at home. Again, it all depends upon...

Sorry wrong guy. 😀

jfogel (10/9/2012)

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Years ago I was a production DBA for Oracle but these days its all development work. My biggest gripe about Oracle is that getting data out of it is...

Dave62 (10/5/2012)

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TravisDBA (10/5/2012)

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... but it's not about that. It's about "trust" and the truth is most managers I have known in this industry over the 28 years i have...

"The old out-of-sight-not-working attitude of many managers is changing, or should be. Most workers can have their productivity observed by what they get done, not by how many hours they...

tabinsc (10/4/2012)

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TravisDBA (10/3/2012)

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tabinsc (10/3/2012)

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I once worked in IT for a retail company that would all but require us to shop at our own stores, but would turn a deaf ear...

tabinsc (10/3/2012)

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I once worked in IT for a retail company that would all but require us to shop at our own stores, but would turn a deaf ear at any...

This all depends on who you are talking to at...

As usual, you are looking at it again from the wrong angle. It should be "Eating your own caviar". I don't know about everyone else but I don't produce "dog...

True, but...