Rod, your story of the younger person reminds me of a situation in which I worked for an IT manager about 20 years my junior in a small shop...

I have a somewhat different experience on this topic. Starting about 10 years ago there was this teenager who would attend my local .NET User group. He is brilliant. And...

I've got one more observation about how sometimes management can be clueless. I am one of the TFS and GitHub Administrators. Our TFS server is years out of support and...

WOW, LoriB, on-call for 40 years. That sucks! And your current boss sounds very clueless.

Well, I wish you well when you finally walk out the door for the last time.

We're experiencing something like what you described Steve, this week, although it isn't invisible. Several servers were down on Monday. Database and application servers. I don't see any correlation between...

Seems like ITIL may dovetail nicely with SBOMs.

Thank you, m60freeman.

@m60freeman your description of your current job sounds fantastic, compared to the second job. I've got a question or two I'd like to ask.

First, what sort of work is the...

I've been in my career for several years, so I've interviewed several times. I'm a software engineer. The interviews I've been in are all over the map. For example the...

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...

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...

Very good advice, Grant. It is something I've tried to do whenever I can. I do my best to not work anyplace that has on-call. That's not always possible, but...

Seagull management! That's great!! I'm experiencing that today! (Too lengthy, so I won't go into it.) I hope I will recognize it if I ever start doing seagull management.

Well, maybe Eric. I have to deal with a manager (whose my boss's boss) who has started to push things in a situation which already was in motion. But her...

I prefer silence, as noise distracts me. During the pandemic, when I was working from home, it was my most productive period of time. My family would normally be quiet...