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A Recruiter Dropped Me In It
21 February 2007
Read moreI resigned last week1, and my manager said he wasn’t surprised. A recruiter rang him a few weeks ago and announced “I have the perfect candidate for you! ... oh wait, she already works for you … sorry …”
Can you spot the one word that identifies which member of the …
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Office Dress: Bags
30 December 2006
Read moreIn the final in this mini series of office dress, I’ve covered suits, shoes, and now its the turn of bags.
I am a hoarder of all things, not least of handbags. I’m forever buying beautful bags and then finding that actually the one I was already using …
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Office Dress: Suits
21 December 2006
Read moreSuits are the friend of the office-dress-rule-constrained person. At a few places I’ve worked, its been shirt, trousers and shoes for guys, and “appropriate dress” for girls. That’s no help to anyone, its such a vague description. I want a uniform that comes in multipacks of similar pastel …
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Office Dress: Shoes
18 December 2006
Read moreThis is the first entry in a planned mini-series on the issues relating to looking presentable at work when you have to walk there. The article mostly relates to women, since I am one. When I last moved jobs I went from stepping out of my house into my car …
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How to get your best projects at work cancelled
23 November 2006
Read morePretty much the worst thing that can happen to any geek is for a project they are working on to be cancelled. If its something they have already put a lot of work into and believe in, then it isn’t surprising that it hurts them. I think most of …
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Coffee Politics
08 November 2006
Read moreThere are some coffee politics happening in my office right now1. I’m not going to write about that though, at least until it blows over. I thought I’d share a couple of previous coffee politics experiences though.
Spare-hand Drink
At one workplace where I had a temporary …
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Work Hygiene
07 November 2006
Read moreSomeone in my office moved desks today (someone left last week so there’s a little reshuffle going on as every takes another step along the hardware/seating improvement path). She1 took one look at her new seat last week and came in today with J-cloth and cleaning fluid …
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My Brush With RSI
02 September 2006
Read moreRSI (Repetitive Strain Injury) is the bogeyman of software developers’ worst nightmares. I think everyone knows someone, or of someone, who was once a great programmer and is now a primary teacher, porter or some such, and all because of this RSI thing. So here’s my experience, because it …
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A Tale of Two Jobs
01 September 2006
Read moreWell, not an actual tale, exactly, but some general anecdotes.
Since moving “oop north” (to Leeds, West Yorkshire, UK), my partner and I have job-hunted once each. Once for me when I relocated up here, and once for him just at the moment as the fixed-term contract that brought him …
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About Blogging About Work
01 August 2006
Read moreUntil now, I’ve avoided blogging about work in pretty much any way. I’ve written about technical stuff that have come up at work but I haven’t written about much beyond that sphere, and even that is only so that I don’t have to hunt for the …
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