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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...
September 20, 2021 at 6:26 pm
About now Steve is wishing he had never started this.
September 17, 2021 at 5:13 pm
"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...
September 17, 2021 at 2:36 pm
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...
September 17, 2021 at 2:27 pm
Steve, I've gotta admit, I didn't see the poopocalypse coming.
Rod, the poopocalypse is already here for me. We have a 14.5 year old Golden Retriever called Lupe who is...
September 17, 2021 at 1:26 pm
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...
September 16, 2021 at 2:37 am
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...
September 15, 2021 at 4:08 pm
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...
August 28, 2021 at 2:49 pm
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...
August 21, 2021 at 1:15 pm
Congratulations skeleton567 on your seniority in programming! Have you worked on mainframes?
Glen, great pun there on the 'seniority'. My career began back in the 60's on IBM 360 and...
August 19, 2021 at 7:22 pm
I 100% agree with this article. At least I believe it was true in my case. In my best position as a DBA, my first position with the company was...
August 18, 2021 at 4:40 pm
This one is bad enough I'm looking for how to stop notifications! Let's put this one to bed.
August 17, 2021 at 12:17 pm
Welp, it seems worthwhile mentioning reputation points in an online forum, i.e. Stack Overflow, are a good way to enhance your resume.
They're also a good way to show...
August 13, 2021 at 7:08 pm
This is the reality of the service industry today. Our youngest son owns an HVAC company employing 15-16 people, and they provide "always on" support. He is never without his...
August 11, 2021 at 12:27 pm
Well, after a 3 year absence I decided to take another look at SSC........Nice to see a lot of the names I remember still posting.
Am no longer earning with...
August 9, 2021 at 5:41 pm
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