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This happened to me once. One of my previous employers insisted on the use of a Diners Club charge cardfor business travel. “The Card No One Accepts!”, we’d joke, as few companies WOULD accept it. “High merchant fees”, was the excuse a retailer would often give. Anyhow, our “awesome” accounts department failed to [...] I needed an IT problem fixed at a remote site, so I asked the responsible IT guy*, “Are you the man?”. ‘What do you mean?’ “You’re the IT guy for Tennant Creek, so can you fix the problem?” ‘Oh, yeah!’. “So you are the man then, go fix it.” If he only saw this IBM advertisement first Work with a big enough organisation and you’ll come across the Service Level Agreement (SLA). An SLA basically says, “we’ll provide you with x level of service, for y dollars. If we don’t provide you with that service, we’ll give you something in return.” That “something” might be a partial refund of your [...] “FIGJAM, what’s that?”, asks my significant other. Oh, just an industry acronym. I’ve worked so long in IT, that I was trained on the 7 OSI protocol layers, as part of a job requirement. I don’t think people learn it these days, unless you’re doing your Cisco CCIE certification. Anyhow, there is now an [...] At my last employer, there was a focus on “Performance Management”. I always felt, even as a team leader, that we paid lip service to the whole process. eg. we were going though the motions. Performance Management has many goals. The primarily one is to ensure that the team is working towards/contributing to [...] … so writes Scott Barnes over at The MossyBlog Times. The larger an organisation becomes, the more it’s Mass of Stupidity grows. Until it reaches critically. Sure, there are pockets of brilliance in one field or another, but on the whole, once an organisation reaches Stupidity Critically, it’s lost. Even if the CEO [...] |
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