fighting the lack of good ideas
This is going to ramble a bit, and I’m not 100% sure my opinions are even remotely reasonable, but I had a great conversation on the Gold Standard recently, and thought sharing that would be fun. The quoted sections are relevant parts of the conversation from my friend*, and the unquoted segments are my responses….
I have noticed an unusual percentage of professional CVs/work histories/resumes on LinkedIn (specifically) that have some fairly blatant errors in them. For example, I have seen people list multiple full-time jobs that they could not have had at the same time (eg, both at one employer and also at the company that acquired their old employer). I’ve…
Lots of corporations automatically append something like the following to emails sent outside their own servers: CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This email communication is intended only for the personal and confidential use of the recipient(s) designated above and may contain information which is subject to Federal and/or State privacy laws. In the event that you are not…
I recently came across “The Two Things“, a somewhat old, but possibly still accurate (or at least humorous look) at a variety of topics. You know, the Two Things. For every subject, there are really only two things you really need to know. Everything else is the application of those two things, or just not…
At various stages in my career, I have traveled extensively – yet never even thought of “gaming” the expense reporting system the way it has been recently reported by CNN. Being terminated for charging a movie to your room? Seems harsh (getting the $9.95 back from the employee would seem to be easier) – but…
A friend of mine recently pointed me at the newspaper-associated blog of a “recent Appalachian State University graduate and now a freelance reporter for The Charlotte Observer”. Ms Penland seems like a nice person – but her writing is not at all what I would expect for a blog associated with a newspaper – it…
As with many others, I suppose, I have various email address come and go: perhaps via job changes, or graduating/changing schools, deciding to sell a domain, or any of a host of other reasons. There’s a problem with that, though: when those changes happen, sometimes access to other digital resources becomes…difficult. For example, I have…