More than a living

As more and more of us move from the corporate office to the home office, I find that we’re all battling with a workspace-within-my-personal-space issue.
By working from home, you just increased your accessibility–to both clients and your family–by tenfold. And the fact that you’re sitting at home, banging away on your keyboard in the exact […]

Okay, I know she’s using employee types to describe software applications.
But, I mean, c’mon. Strip that away and you’ve still got some archetypal employee types.
This is well worth the read: Creating Passionate Users: Is your app an ass-kisser?
I think I’m somewhere among the “Showoff,” the “Anal-Retentive Guy,” and “Brilliant but tempermental.”

I love flying. If only because it let’s me catch up on all the reading I’ve been meaning to do.
As per Amy’s “Assholes 101” post, I’ve been stuck trying to finish The No Asshole Rule: Building a Civilized Workplace and Surviving One That Isn’t by Bob Sutton.
Last time I was talking to her about it, […]

When I get together with former co-workers, we rarely talk about old colleagues we loved, instead favoring stories about the ones who made us want to commit hara-kari in our cubicles.
You know, that guy who verbally abused his wife on the phone every day for all to hear. The manager who treated her team like […]

Well, today is the day to get out from under that thumb. Or that iron fist. Or whatever.
Today, March 6, 2007, is the first annual Democracy in the Workplace Day!
What’s a Democratic Workplace, you ask with genuine interest and childlike curiosity?
Well, take a look at WorldBlu’s list of the Most Democratic Workplaces 2007.
Who made it? […]