James Pearl Thinks Blogging is Dead

Cole said:
I now work at a smaller company (50 people) compared to the global company I was at before. I report to our CEO, and I can't say enough good things about where I am now. All companies preach culture, but it seems few actually mean it.
It sucks that "grown up" people managers think treating people like that gets results.
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I've been at the same small company for over two decades. It comes up in conversations when people are talking about job hunts etc and I'm basically planning on retiring from here.

When the owners are great people the employees don't leave. We rarely lose good employees and when we do it's on good terms and they end up at our clients and it works out for both of us.
 
Norm said:
I recently read an approach where a guy left a toxic environment and left a review of working there and said it was great, then listed a really high salary. Apparently this caused an issue as everyone working there subsequently felt they were underpaid.
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this is Brilliant!
 
The Unexamined Life

"The unexamined life is not worth living." -Socrates...allegedly.

If you look at that quote on Wikipedia, that brings you down quite the rabbit hole. I'm absolutely sure you could bend that quote in some way to promote colonoscopies, but I just don't have that in me today.

Yeah, for sure though. That adage has some truth to it and at the end of the day, this is what you need to ask yourself when you end up in these situations. It was pretty quick that I started wondering, and if I look back all sorts of signs were there. Probably the biggest of which was that I started numbering the weeks almost as soon as I started. The aim was to get to 100 then I could consider just consulting with the rest of my career.

When I told the 2 people who I managed that I was leaving, I got these 2 replies:

Guy 1: Thank god. I was starting to seriously question WTF I was doing here. I'm happy to hear you say this.
Guy 2: Yeah I always thought the CEO was an asshole but I don't work with him so it's ok.

Note that Guy 1 followed me from the previous job. So I feel particularly bad about that. He's 90% on his way to a new job though. So he'll be ok.

We went to see MJ last week. Talk about examining your own life. I never thought about what he grew up with but now that I watched this, it does make a lot of sense. It was worth seeing.

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The End of Unemployment

And it ended today. Exactly 3 weeks later. Yeah it's odd that it ended on a Wednesday and started on a Thursday but why do we need to end & start things on Fridays & Mondays?

The reason my non-compete is unimportant is because I've left the partner/consulting space and have gone to work directly for a consumer. The past year or so I've been thinking about making this move. Consulting is great for a variety of reasons. At the same time, you never really have a vested interest in the project you're doing because once it wraps up, you're out the door. From a very real perspective, billable hours and additional SOWs are always the most important thing, as opposed to delivering good work.

So I'm now working for the company and not a shop. We use ServiceNow to support the business, and I'm now pretending to be a Director who will own the technical side of all that. The company is in a bit of a triage stage so the number of people on the team is TBD. I think currently it's 21 but that number is going to shrink.

An old coworker from the Massachusetts org brought me in. She's been trying to get me to join since last fall and with the implosion of the other job, I finally sent her a text and yadda-yadda-yadda, here we are.

As much as I thought I was done with Ohio when Julia didn't go back to OSU, this org is in Kentucky, right across the river from Cincinnati.

It's apizza!

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Norm said:
The End of Unemployment

And it ended today. Exactly 3 weeks later. Yeah it's odd that it ended on a Wednesday and started on a Thursday but why do we need to end & start things on Fridays & Mondays?

The reason my non-compete is unimportant is because I've left the partner/consulting space and have gone to work directly for a consumer. The past year or so I've been thinking about making this move. Consulting is great for a variety of reasons. At the same time, you never really have a vested interest in the project you're doing because once it wraps up, you're out the door. From a very real perspective, billable hours and additional SOWs are always the most important thing, as opposed to delivering good work.

So I'm now working for the company and not a shop. We use ServiceNow to support the business, and I'm now pretending to be a Director who will own the technical side of all that. The company is in a bit of a triage stage so the number of people on the team is TBD. I think currently it's 21 but that number is going to shrink.

An old coworker from the Massachusetts org brought me in. She's been trying to get me to join since last fall and with the implosion of the other job, I finally sent her a text and yadda-yadda-yadda, here we are.

As much as I thought I was done with Ohio when Julia didn't go back to OSU, this org is in Kentucky, right across the river from Cincinnati.

It's apizza!

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Hope this one works out better...
 
Norm said:
The End of Unemployment

And it ended today. Exactly 3 weeks later. Yeah it's odd that it ended on a Wednesday and started on a Thursday but why do we need to end & start things on Fridays & Mondays?

The reason my non-compete is unimportant is because I've left the partner/consulting space and have gone to work directly for a consumer. The past year or so I've been thinking about making this move. Consulting is great for a variety of reasons. At the same time, you never really have a vested interest in the project you're doing because once it wraps up, you're out the door. From a very real perspective, billable hours and additional SOWs are always the most important thing, as opposed to delivering good work.

So I'm now working for the company and not a shop. We use ServiceNow to support the business, and I'm now pretending to be a Director who will own the technical side of all that. The company is in a bit of a triage stage so the number of people on the team is TBD. I think currently it's 21 but that number is going to shrink.

An old coworker from the Massachusetts org brought me in. She's been trying to get me to join since last fall and with the implosion of the other job, I finally sent her a text and yadda-yadda-yadda, here we are.

As much as I thought I was done with Ohio when Julia didn't go back to OSU, this org is in Kentucky, right across the river from Cincinnati.

It's apizza!

cZm5UMY.jpeg
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Where is that pizza from?
 
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