Anytime you get three or more people in a room, you have politics...

In my case, my employer has an agreement with a local health club such that we get "corporate"...

So back to the original question, "should we ban portable devices", the answer seems to be "sometimes yes, sometimes no". Reasonable and prudent probably comes into play. There...

AA in Political Science, and Certificate of Data Processing, back in '81. I was tutoring COBOL while I was taking the class (most problems were logic-related, not language-related :D...

In response to Andy noting that SSC has so many more members than PASS does (and that's despite Steve's constant plugs 😀 ), I'd like to note that there may...

Don't wait for the Federal Government to pass an incentive; they are waaaay too slow. You can have a bigger impact at the state level. Washington (the state,...

Veeeery nice - thanks!:satisfied:

As a developer, I agree with sending them to SQL Server training! I fought to get some brought in-house, since I came from a COBOL / MS-Access background....

I was all willing to pay my way to PASS 2006, but my boss wouldn't let me have the time off - I think Steve quoted him in the editorial......

Steve's a spring chicken  (I'll be 47 next month...)

Birthdays are just another good excuse to have dinner out for us.  But when my "significant other" returned from a 3-month stint...

Actually, any question related to religion can be interpreted as harrassment, unless you work for a church! 

There actually are some ways to tell...

Define "survive".    I think your former boss did you a dis-service by saying "keep your mouth shut".  There are many ways to discuss the...

Along the lines of responsibility, why didn't anyone notice the backups had been shut off?  Doesn't anyone check these things to insure they completed correctly?  As a developer, I have...

My regular daily subscription has gone sporadic, starting in June with just a few, July was much worse.  The 7/19 is missing, and 7/22-29 all missing.  The last one I...

We received one of these emails last year, for one of our main websites.  So it's not limited to any one type of website!  Best advice is to delete the...

If your boss is concerned about losing their job if the team is outsourced, ask them to work with you to help make the team the best it can be. ...