I can't wrap my head around how humans could create something smarter than humans.  I am very skeptical regarding the whole concept because it is bound to introduce bias by...

Back in 1968, three years after I finished an undergrad degree in Sociology, I was working as a credit manager when I met a friend, Bob Maple,  who managed a...

Eric, that sounds like you have really pretty good communications, and I suspect better than most.  Please pardon me for always being the skeptic.

I will agree that there are some people who should not work remotely. However, I'd also say that many can work remotely and to prohibit that just because some...

'I know I'm not really cut out for management, but I do know that I've had some bad managers in the past - and far too many people who don't...

"Close Oversight" <> "I can see you sitting at your desk".  If you think that you have to actually see someone at a desk in order to manage them,...

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The idea that "we pay a lot for this space" is a bad reason to get people into the office. As you mentioned, that money is already spent and...

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About now Steve is wishing he had never started this.

"What surprised me is that, although upon hindsight it's obvious that a Roomba will encounter dog poop (my wife suggested dog vomit too) or cat poop, I'd never thought of...

We got a help ticket call from one of the counselors saying, "You program is wiping out my data!" We went to her office to investigate. Eventually we...

Rod, the poopocalypse is already here for me.  We have a 14.5 year old Golden Retriever called Lupe who is...

Thanks,  Rod.  Another time helping my manager worked out very well for me.  In another 'downsizing' situation I had taken an early retirement offer and headed out to my Rocky...

Once early in my career helping a manager turned out to be a very bad thing to do.

This particular group manager (not my group) had a personal hygiene issue which...

Kathi, interesting writing about using more free time.  I'll pass on to you younger folks that even after eleven years of retirement we still have to think about handling our...

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I always found that the biggest error hazards, especially when receiving data from other software, were data type/conversion  problems.  When data was coming from a front-end I always preferred to...