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  • RE: Frustration with Bad Design

    BTW, I've refused interviews with two companies just because of negative Glass Door reviews that were followed up by personal inquires among the local community.

    If more people were professionally...

  • RE: Frustration with Bad Design

    I'm taking option 2, Steve. Goals are set, plans are in place, nights are spent working on skills and such.

    Currently there are enough shops, companies and corporations demanding our talents...

  • RE: Summer, Summer, Summertime

    Fun things?

    Helped some friends work on their house. Got a new gas combo grill.

    Helped a friend get a better job. Helped several people in the user group get better...

  • RE: Data Decisions or Instinct?

    People including leaders constantly ignore the facts. "This country has dangerous weapons, we must invade!", "So and so says the right words about an emotional issue, so I'm voting for...

  • RE: A IT Consultant for our Times

    In my career I've encountered consultants from company "AC", now renamed company "A", that have driven corporations into the ground with "advice". Their prime skill is the ability to play...

  • RE: What Is the Hardest Feature to Learn About SQL Server?

    I think the hardest thing for me is that I don't spend enough time using SQL Server at my current job. Sometimes I don't touch it for weeks, other times...

  • RE: Infect Your Colleagues with the Learning Bug

    You can lead the horse to water, but most of the horses are happier grazing in the pasture with the sheep...

  • RE: Do Other Departments Know What You Do?

    Yes, I do my job and their job too!

    All Hail the Data B-----!

    😀

  • RE: The Product Centric Career

    Unless you do have a career involving a long lived product like SQL Server or Cobol, you need to be flexible.

    SQL Server isn't my full time gig, dealing with...

  • RE: Apology for today's article

    In a culture where plagiarism is second nature, your opinion might seem strange.

    I think you mean corruption, not just plagiarism.

    And it's sad because to achieve any means of...

  • RE: Apology for today's article

    So, yeah... Sad...

    Sad is the word. Sadder still is that at my work a colleague had a bet to guess the background of the author... 🙁

  • RE: Bad Meetings or Meeting Badly

    Not long ago I spent a year going to meetings. An average week was 30-35 meetings, easily more than a thousand over the course of a year.

    Sounds like my definition...

  • RE: Apology for today's article

    Also, would be beneficial to make the name of the "author" public so other sites will be aware of him and his practices.

    If you get the email subscription, you can...

  • RE: But, but, but, my data is clean!

    We started out with one golden rule: assume nothing!

    We have a saying here: "All data is bad, some is worse than the rest."

  • RE: Go to a User Group

    I have been attending user groups on and off for years... Where is the beer?

    We have beer, (on tap), where we meet. But most people decline since there is...

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