Archive for the 'soft skills' Category
“Good enough, move on”
March 5th, 2009The Slacker Manager blog covered this topic several months ago in an article about a concept they named GEMO: “Good enough, move on”:
You work at something, you begin to run out of steam or you know more needs to be done but there are other projects and things that need to be done so you […]
The nature of ‘production’
March 2nd, 2009What does it mean for a system to be ‘in production’?
This came up for me on Friday. We have a NAS unit, a shiny new NetApp filer, which was recently purchased and set up, and although we are testing things with it, we hadn’t yet taken the final steps — it was not directly […]
How to make your hiring manager cry
March 6th, 2008I feel a little let down. You see, I’m hiring for an open sysadmin position, and … it turns out that it is hard work. Curse you, recession, keeping everybody from wanting to job-hop willy-nilly!
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve posted the job to LOPSA and Sage’s job boards. (Representin’ my […]
Cool boss tricks
September 4th, 2007Belatedly, in honor of National Boss’ Day, here’s a short list of things I liked that some of my previous bosses did.
1. “H—– Day.” My boss J. would sometimes pick a slow day and randomly announce it as a holiday, naming it after himself. I always said that if I became a manager, […]
