I have been working from home full-time since mid-2019, but I almost never work from other locations because as you said, the ergonomic issues are a big problem. I did...

I stepped into a position 5 years ago as a company's first DBA. They mostly had projects that had been developed cloud-first using Azure SQL Database, with a few Azure...

I am also in a Teams environment with a single person authorized to add Teams and Channels. The way we work around it for the "quick channels" that Steve mentioned...

I am also an American who now works (from my home in the U.S.) for a company based in Europe (Netherlands in my case). The culture shock was significant. On...

In every job I've had as a SQL DBA, I was the company's first DBA, and the main reason they hired me is that they realized that the C# developers...

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I only have bifocals (hard-line, not progressives), but I also have dedicated computer glasses optimized for the distance to my monitors from my usual seating position. That saves a lot...

Oh, I just remembered I also have a USB-C hub to connect everything up to the ThinkPad.

Most of my employers provided me with laptops for my sole work machine...

Decades ago I bought a 36" D x 72" L x 28" H desk and the matching 18" D x 72"W x 28" H credenza from my father-in-law when his...

We use tags, but having a standard naming convention really keeps the confusion to a minimum. Something like "LA34532345454" would make me cry.

We have a very long internal wiki page...

I was once laid off as part of a purge initiated by a new manager several levels above me in a company of 70+ thousand people. He simply sorted a...

In your case, the receiving system (at the airport) should have had alerting set up that the needed task had not been assigned or completed. But it wouldn't be crazy...

There needs to be a fully closed loop on handoffs between systems. Someone should have been alerted that no one picked up the work order, and/or that an update indicating...

Back in the 1990's I managed CompuServe's fleet of thousands of desktop PCs (not servers) for employee use. I had a lab and an electrical engineer on staff who would...

I am working with an application architected to use a single Azure SQL Database per client (~150), all with identical schemas. These run in Elastic Pools, one for each of...

Top lessons I've learned about employment:

Take charge of your career. Decide what you really enjoy doing and find a job doing that. I waited far too long to pick a...