Employees failing to take holiday are risking their mental wellbeing
AT&T’s 911, Cellular Networks Face Plant In Wake Of Hurricane Ida
– Personally, I lost cell service, and contact with the outside world, for 1 day, but in Baton Rouge, AT&T failing is accepted knowledge.
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Steven Vore was kind enough to pass along this Computerworld article to me today titled The Help Desk: Often the First Step in a Successful IT Career Couldn’t agree more with that they had to say. There’s no doubt that you get exposed to all kinds of stuff, and definitely have to figure out how…
RenewData is giving away a free copy of E-Discovery for Dummies. I ordered myself one, for a couple of reasons. First. because I can’t reallt get enough reading material on the subject t this early point in my Litigation Support career, but secondly, because I am curious if this will turn out to be a…
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Social Media and Mental Health: Dos and Don’ts It’s time to accept that disinformation is a cyber security issue Show Your IT Professionals Some Love A Hackers ‘Shipageddon’ Has Set Sail: Beware of Fake Shipping Messages 7 Cybersecurity Tools On Our Holiday Wish List – skilled professionals right at the top of the list, not…
I see this often, in young people just starting out, and plenty of people who’ve been around a bit longer and should know better. They look at a job posting, and find the one thing that rules them out, instead of seeing the bigger picture. Practically speaking, it’s useful for almost everyone to treat job…
Whether you want to talk about social media posts about “always grinding”, the never-ending side-hustle, etc. even in the midst of a global pandemic and the acknowledgement of the mental health issues tied to overwork, we still brag about how much we overwork. In the workplace, we talk a good game about employee wellness, and work-life balance, but who wins all the accolades at the end of each project, or quarter? The folks who put in the “extra effort”. (aka “hours”)
It’s as if we never really left that early Protestant environment, and it’s the same reason why so many people who have been successful have such a hard time accepting that things have changed. We still hang on to the belief that says good people work hard, and that hard work leads to success. Bad people don’t work hard, and this is why they don’t have success.
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