I have the pleasure of working for a company which takes its coffee very seriously. There's a professional espresso machine in each of the offices and the company employs a...

Back to the original topic: coincidentally I decided to finally bite the bullet and upgrade my home laptop last weekend. I've had Win 10 on my work machine for a...

Like Gary, I'm not from the US either, but I find it interesting to see what benefits are commonly offered to IT professionals in other parts of the world.

I...

Your current employer will lose anyone who still has any initiative.....and they will deserve to lose them. You dig your tunnel and escape. I promise you, you will feel so...

Wayne West (2/8/2016)

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Thinking about it, some of my best managers were not computer experts. One was a retired Air Force officer who knew enough about computers to speak well...

Beatrix Kiddo (1/29/2016)

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At risk of revealing too much, I think I'm in this position right now, and wondering how on earth to get out of it without adversely affecting my...

I'm not in the US but in a much smaller market where some employers are pretty adept at dodging the rules they don't like, and where a number of the...

Sad to say, part of crafting a resumé which will pass the first stage of eliminations and get you in front of an interviewer may well be to omit details...

Another experience of 'sa abuse' was when we upgraded a certain vendor product at the same company. Its previous incarnation (on SQL 2000) required a management-level user to be given...

andrew gothard (12/24/2015)

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Ivanova (12/21/2015)

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Slightly off-topic; while working for a large financial institution, I was approached by one of the security team. He was a highly-paid and allegedly very security-savvy contractor....

Also, if your company has a security team, make them your friends and allies. They can be incredibly useful in such a scenario.

The request was allegedly so that the pen testers could check how the instances had been configured.

I told the security 'expert' that his pen testers could submit their diagnostic scripts...

Slightly off-topic; while working for a large financial institution, I was approached by one of the security team. He was a highly-paid and allegedly very security-savvy contractor. His request (although...

A few years ago the New Zealand government made a law change so that permanent employees can be let go within the first 90 days without either side being able...

A previous employer's management insisted on business dress because our (non customer facing) offices were in the central business district and management's (unsubstantiated) theory was that if employees were seen...