I totally understand, Miles. That's called growing up. There's nothing wrong with passion, and I don't think that...

Gary,

Like I said before, it's about control....

"They're productive, but it's boring. Sounds are muted, there's no animation from the employees, it just seems like it could be an accounting firm as much as it could be...

That is a very typical repsonse from a micromanager. As I said before, they don't tend to like people to know that they don't have their priorities in order, so...

""Doctor, come quickly! Buffer Cache Hit Ratio is way down; Disk Queue Length is through the roof, Page Life Expectancy has dipped below the magic '300'. "

These are all Performance...

I think there is...

Alex Gay (2/6/2013)

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I've had managers ask for "Everything, Now" in the past. I keep a written list of all my tasks, and if it gets too much just ask...

I read this piece on micro-managers once and always thought that it was spot on. Read on:

"A micromanager is one of the most frustrating and demoralizing forces in the workplace....

I think Google is reading way too much of their own press clippings and it is going to their heads. 😀

We have one legacy 32-Bit SQL box. The rest are all 64-Bit installs. It's our standard install simply because 64-bit architecture blows right past the 3 GB barrier and can...

Argo was one of the better "edge of your seat films" I have seen in a while. It wasn't a big box office draw but man was it a good...

Scenario One: Plane crashes due to human error.

Scenario Two: Plane crashes due to computer software error.

Personally, if I were on that plane, it wouldn't really concern me what...

majorbloodnock (1/21/2013)[/b

If your company is happy with your hiring decisions, then keep doing it the way you do. However, unless you experience a far higher staff turnover than your competitors,...

I am not sure that I would entrust the safekeeping and storage of the only thing that can decrypt my production databases in case of emergency, to my end-user community....

I don't have a problem with flexibility/changes per say. However, I do tend to have a problem with people/users who can't seem to make up their mind about what they...