One of the main reasons to evaluate employees is to ensure that everyone is being treated fairly. The system outlined in the article is inherently unfair. Additionally, such a system...

The rating system you mentioned is assinine because it defines someone as deficient even if they are a star. This is just another example of the just plain stupidity...

Perhaps you can see how this thread got ugly last time.

I commented on this thread when it was originally posted and the discussion got ugly. High quality business casual clothes almost scream competent IT professional. Advising anyone new to the...

I disagree. Just because you are a good programmer, developer, DBA, or whatever, doesn't mean you are a good negotiator. I'm happy you are a good negotiator but...

Ian Massi (10/23/2013)

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I've heard that in some places it's mandatory to take at least a week at a time at least once a year in order to make sure that...

Employees are given vacation for extremely good reasons. Good managers will ensure that work is organized so that vacation can be taken and will insist that everyone take their share.

Managers...

Knowledge workers have no reason to unionize. We can cut far better deals with management on our own than collectively.

I have been fortunate to work on some large projects, in excess of 100 programmers. The process of working on a large corporate software project is a skill in itself....

The IT helpdesk will go away about the time that the sun goes nova.

Fudgeable! This is a concept expressed by one of my software design heroes, Alan Cooper. He points out that any system must enable and be resiliant to process changes made...

Oh good grief, just have the issuing authority PKI sign the fingerprint image files and set up an authentication server with good failover characteristics. Use open source software so that...

The organization where I now work has experienced substantial pain in the past by not upgrading SQL Server versions. For this reason, it has long been the policy here that...

A database should be stitched up tight as a drum with constraints that ensure referential integrity. Otherwise they should be dumb as a stone. And you will put a trigger...

Bert Scalzo (11/8/2008)

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Triggers do still have one legitimate use that constraints cannot handle. If the logical design includes super and sub-types, and the physical implementation is the one table per...