I'm with Andy about creating a spreadsheet to calculate the total reward of an offer. As you say, health insurance in the US is a significant factor, but most people...

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Some people only learn lessons the hard way. I once worked for a company that had their own data center with a truck-size UPS but management wouldn't buy a generator...

I've almost always received comp time for overtime work, and with one employer, comp time and a half. I once worked on a consulting gig where I was paid time...

C# developers writing TSQL Stored Procedures. I can forgive putting parentheses around IF predicates, but not all the CURSORs and WHILE loops. Also, databases generated from EF object models in...

Unit tests do not require production size databases, although load tests do and are important as well, once all the unit and integration tests are complete.

Code coverage is important, but...

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I work 100% from home. Several years ago, I talked my employer into funding two 24" monitors for my home office. When they agreed, I bought two 27" ones via...

I foresee difficult times ahead.

Definitely time to GTFO as soon as you can find a new position without red flags. I'm sorry you are having to deal with that.

One nice thing about ITIL is a company can implement it gradually/incrementally. In fact, it would be horribly disruptive and almost impossible to do all at once. Often the first...

First, what sort of work is the company you work for?

I work for a Europe-based IT company that is dedicated to servicing, and effectively part of, a global network of...

I had one job where I was the only DBA, so on-call 24 x 7 x 365. We created and sold software that was run on-prem by clients, so I...

The one thing I miss about working in an office is having lunch with other people in IT but outside my area. Just random conversation about "what are you working...

Incremental loads from SQL into any kind of Data Lake is easily achievable using many different methods. Where they fall apart is in replicating deletes, especially in large datasets, without...

Just because no one else has mentioned it, I'm going to bring up COVID-19. It still isn't gone, lots of people are high risk or immunocompromised, and pretty much no...

I love my Bose 700 for airplanes as I can actually hear movies. With most others, I hear too much airplane noise and can't really enjoy media/music.

Truth! They are great...

I love my Bose 700 for airplanes as I can actually hear movies. With most others, I hear too much airplane noise and can't really enjoy media/music.

Truth. But while they...