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Over the years, HR departments have gotten used to taking advantage of social media to vet potential new hires. MySpace was good, but Facebook is better. They loved it. However, with the cavalcade of stories talking about security breeches and identity… more »

I'm tapped out at work. More projects than my team can handle, 9 months without a direct manager, 9 months with a team lead, and a senior management group that demands we finish our projects on shortened timetables. I'm sure it sounds familiar to ma… more »

I told him. Four months ago I told him. He didn't believe me. He said it wouldn't be a problem. That they would just push through any problems and get it done. I told him there would be problems. I told him it wouldn't work. I told him that the… more »

We’re doing a major project at work, switching to new vendor. It’s going to take a ton of effort not to mess it up. Because of that, this week, I’ve spent over 25 hours in meetings with various stages of planning, review, and purchasing teams to get it… more »

Please don't get huffy when I don't say Merry Christmas. There may be a very good reason for my word choices. I'm an atheist. I don't hide that fact. But let me run down my rules of the road for the Christmas season. I think they're fairly reasonabl… more »

Agree to disagree? No.I don't care if your my boss. I don't care that you think you understand the details of the report I created. It's irrelevant. When I tell you that you don't understand what the report is telling you, you should give that wieght… more »

Dave is a vendor rep. He’s a big wig at said vendor. He “supports” us by refusing to allow any modification to his application or any of the servers that run it. If we so much as change one setting, they threaten to cut off all support for their product.… more »

We just hired a new guy on our team. He sits in the cube next to me, and is on my way out of the building. First day, as I said good bye to the team and began walking he piped up "If I don't see ya again, it'll be the best thing that happened to me a… more »

I recently got a new job after a couple months of job seeking. Yay me, right? I thought so too. Life has been good. Apparently, I'm popular all of the sudden. I thought I had deactivated all of my online resume's or indicated that I was no longer seeking… more »

My boss is a psychotic. She makes commitments to provide things before she knows if the deliverable is actually possible. When you says something is technically possible but insanely difficult, time consuming and wasteful, she stops listening after the w… more »

Without going into details about my employer or my relation to them, I ask... why the fuck don't people patch systems regularly? We just had a virus hit some of the systems in the environment. It a well known and highly publicized virus. From 2002. The p… more »

Here's a tip for communication with Roulette. 'Re:' should not be used as a replacement for the word 'about'. For example, "Rou, re: your message re: Client A, I sent you an email with all of the details" See... that's fucking stupid. I have n… more »

Hey guys. I know you might not have noticed. I mean, the four of you obviously bumped into each other in the hall and started chatting about work. A legitimate everyday occurrence. However, for 10 minutes all 4 of you have been standing there chattin… more »

Gotta love these meetings. I mean, they're just a great concept. The staff is abused and exploited most of the year. We're understaffed, underfunded, overworked and short of resources. But we have a quarterly meeting that makes it all better. A recog… more »

So, we have this server. Actually we have lots and lots of them. But I don't care about them right now. I care about this one. This one is a Linux box. And this Linux box has mirrored raid array. So one day, one of our techs walks by the server ra… more »

I want to injure someone. This isn't really unusual I know. But there is a new guy here at work. Works in a nearby office. Don't know him, don't have any clue what department he works for, don't give a fuck. You see, he has his instant messaging on. N… more »

My boss quit. She started in January or February. Now she's gone. No real notice or anything. She packed her stuff up Tuesday night. Left her badge. Went home. Called out sick on Wednesday. And sometime after work, called and told her boss she… more »