• Surreal

    There’s nothing that says “Be prepared for anything today!” better than driving to work in the quiet that comes from having a bunch of snow on the ground, passing two stopped cars, blocking two lanes of traffic, who obviously had just had an accident, although there was no noticeable damage to either car, so I…

  • Further thoughts

    Some more random thoughts on workplace monitoring: – Your relationship with your employees shouldn’t be antagonistic. They aren’t “out to get you”. They should have a vested interest in helping the company succeed, after all the company pays their salary too. At the same time understand that what is bad for the company is bad…

  • Let’s talk about work

    Specifically, let’s talk about work hours and home hours. Much is being made about this article, which quotes a new study that says that people with home internet access wind up spending more time working from home than they waste surfing at work. It raises some interesting points. Here, we understand that there is occasionally…

  • Sometimes I hate RSS

    Something in this post has been causing “An invalid character was found in text content. Error processing resource ‘https://www.mikemcbrideonline.com/blogger_rss.xml’. Line 23, Position 772 “. I have run out of ideas on what it might be, so I guess anyone reading in a aggregator is going to have to come to the site until that post…

  • Busy, busy

    I was writing an email to someone yesterday and trying to explain why I had taken so long to get back to them. So I started listing out all the things I’ve been doing since the end of 2002 that took time away from catching up my email. In the last month I’ve studied for…