Category: Work
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ITIL Training = Eyelid Olympics
My company decided that it was time for me to take ITIL Foundation training. For those of you not in an IT field, this is essentially an industry best practice of standards on how to efficiently and effectively perform change in the IT organization. I’ve been in the IT industry…
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Can I work from home? Denied!
Had a 1:1 recently with my boss. I again, brought up the request to work from home one day per week. He again, told me that it is difficult or near impossible to get something like that approved for the long term. The current policy as it stands is: Working…
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I’m the outsider
Acute awareness of anything is not always a good thing. For most people it brings clarity in a confusing situation, lets you see something that you didn’t realize before, or lets you empathize with someone else to help them through something. In my case though, I’ve become acutely aware of…
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Money, teeth, and playing hookie
It’s been an interesting weekend. Not exactly the kind of weekend that you would like to rewind and play again, but interesting none the less. The wife and I have been looking at appliances for the new house for a few days and decided to head over to Best Buy…
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Exit, Cold, Enter, Almost a week down
My last day was last Wednesday with my old company. It was interesting being there telling everybody essentially the same thing. Yeah, I’m heading out. Going to an architectural design and infrastructure control software company that is only 30 minutes from home blah blah yadda yadda this that and the…
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Merry New Job Eve…… oh boy
Having the unfortunate luck of having a mild cold on the eve of a new job, I was reflecting last night on my life to this point. There have been several major milestones in my life that are easily recalled and thought about in vivid detail. Graduating High School, getting…
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Be color brave and achieve on your own
Mellody Hobson: Be color blind or color brave Having been a TED viewer for a few years now since Jamie Oliver did his documentaries on school cafeteria food in the U.S., this one struck a cord with me. It’d definitely worth the 15 minutes to watch the whole thing. I…
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Half-assed Tech
I should know better by now than to trust that technology, any technology, is implemented in such a way that its actually trustworthy enough to do what you expect it to do. It seems that the more complex and cumbersome something is to install, administer, and maintain the harder it…
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