I posted this photo to Facebook yesterday, as I worked from the hotel to try and get up to speed with this new job. A friend left a sarcastic comment about the glamorous life of traveling for work. It got me thinking. If you have never had the kind of job that requires a lot…
This is no joke. This is a risk all of us face, every single day, whether it’s with a work or a personal email account. We communicate electronically all the time. We share intimate details of our lives with the recipients of our messages assuming that it’ll never be public. It’s not social media after all. But if the network that stuff is sitting on gets hacked, it’s open season on whatever information you have there.
Now, however, things will be different. I am in my final week working for Syntricate. The next time I update my LinkedIn profile, it will be for real. I will be the eDiscovery Training Manager for Nuix starting on December 15.
I’ve written before about Manager Tools. Specifically I’ve written before about how you are the company to the people who report to you, and all that entails. Over the last couple of weeks on the Manager Tools podcast they’ve released parts 1 and 2 of Welcome To They – Professional Subordination In their own words:…
I found it interesting that Comcast is publicly saying that they are “embarrassed” by the behavior of one of their custom support reps. I mean, yeah, what else were they going to say? But it does teach us something important about front line service employees. When Ryan Block and his wife dialed the toll free…
So yeah, we need to talk about this. Not just in IT, in every industry and workplace. 1 in 10 Americans reports suffering from depression. If you have more than 10 people working in your company, there is a very, very good chance that someone there is dealing with depression, and is at risk. They, like me, need help.