Too Nice in the Workplace?
Some thoughts from the Career Management Blog.
Some thoughts from the Career Management Blog.
With the exception of a few additions, this is a transcript of my podcast today on the Energion.com Podcast. Around a year ago I started to re-evaluate my business. I have been in business now for over 10 years, but the business has never run as I felt it should. My wife and I sat…
The podcast/YouTube channel Into the Desert has been examining a number of issues in religion, philosophy, and politics. They have started a series on the problems with the IT business in general, including consolidation, deterioration of service, and employment issues including instability. Here’s the first video. They’ve made a second, but if you want to…
From a Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory franchise, according to The Consumerist. I bring this up to point out that a minimum level of common sense is required for good customer service. If you think you have enough rules to cover it, think again. Also see here and here on customer service. (HT: Pursuing Holiness.)
This download from TechRepublic, 10 e-mail habits that waste time and cause problems is well worth reading. These tips could help you (and me!) avoid some problems with e-mail communication.
I know this is old, and some people are complaining about mentioning it, but it seems to me that there’s enough hardship in using Windows to make it relevant. It’s a complaint e-mail from Bill Gates to folks at Microsoft from 2003. (HT: evangelical outpost and boingboing.)
I think the article There’s no such thing as a ‘remote’ employee in Computerworld is well worth while. People in my generation seem to think working from homed is something special and extraordinary, but as this article points out, our work follows us home and our personal lives follow us to work, and with remote…