Imagine for a moment that you work as a consultant for one of the largest Information Technology Services Firms in the world, and you are dedicated to a client, who happens to be one of the largest telecommunications firms in the United States. To make things interesting, visualize an extremely competitive situation in which the [...]

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People have been saying that email is broken for a while now, but I thought the pronouncement premature because I still find it an immensely useful and incredibly powerful communication tool. I’ve changed my mind. In a meeting today to redesign the way a Fortune 100 corporation handles incoming Internet e-mail, I learned that of [...]

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Fear not, sweet tens of readers, for I have not left you. Today, in fact, marks my return to “the office” after three weeks at home post birth. Now that I am back at work, I can blog apace and not be distracted by pesky issues such as children and sleep. This morning, exiting the [...]

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I get the distinct impression in my office that I am being softened up for some large blow. Isn’t that nice? I’m posting to a lot of other sites these days, so links are coming soon. And finally, I went to an astonishingly good bar last night, The Angel . It’s a British style pub, [...]

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The murky lobby of the corporate office tower in which I work has never once been enjoyed by any humans. It’s a dank, unnatural earth-toned, fluorescent lit monstrosity of architecture and interior design. The public can access this portion of the building, and the resulting smattering of commercial establishments never ceases to boggle my mine. [...]

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Should I be disturbed that I just received a thirty-page Feasability of Design and Estimate document written entirely in the Comic Sans Serif font? To me, this is like showing up at a meeting wearing clown shoes and an orange bozo nose. When I see this font, I hear circus music in my head. And [...]

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The long, slow wreck of the economy and my immersion into humanity as evidenced by working with a stupid asshole.

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We’re at the pinnacle or just beyond it. A steady progression and career path is no longer yours for the taking and most certainly not your reward for sticking it out. Already the “vast sucking sound” of jobs fleeing to India has made you perk up and notice. You got a little edgy during that [...]

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I really don’t enjoy the benefit enrollment process that big companies put their employees through every year. I realize that in order to have efficiency and to allow for cost savings, plan changes, etc. etc. that change is inevitable. However, how am I supposed to do my job and simultanously decipher nuggets like the below? [...]

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Just as I could see the writing on the wall regarding the “outsourcing” business of a couple years ago, I can read the Djarling tea leaves and see that corporate I.T. is going to move to India and other “best shores” over the next ten years. I actually worked on a project to assist a [...]

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How can one have a workplace with no actual “place”?

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As I was pushing the car with my computer and a bunch of other crap on it to the elevator so I could move to a new office three floors down, I heard a woman on a conference call say: “but we’re not supposed to be intelligent.” God I am glad to be off of [...]

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Outwardly, I’m shitting in tall cotton. Since my “promotion” a few months back, I’ve been raising the roof on many levels. I work from home two days per week. My workload is somewhat below the level one might call “hectic.” And while the work is definitely shy of stimulating, it’s work. And sad as it [...]

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Whydo we need to go to a place actually called “work.”

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True irony and Change Management

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