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- Ha! Firings of experienced floor staff come back to bite Circuit City in the assets today
- Remember my post from earlier this year, Circuit City, I'll never shop you again? The ninth-most commented upon post in this blog for 2007 featured my outrage at Circuit City jettisoning some 4,000 experienced sales personnel and hiring younger workers so that it...
- Tags: Asset, Firing, Circuit City Stores Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Asset Management, Investment, Sales, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Finance, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-12-21
- Popularity of these 10 posts tells me you hate it when big companies screw consumers like you
- I was going through some server logs of our most-read and most-popular posts, when this realization hit me: You're really, REALLY interested in those cases when big business, dumb corporate policy, or the errant actions of incompetent customer "service" types screw consumers. How can I...
- Tags: Firing, Server, Apple Inc., Servers, Hardware, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-28
- Ex-Vonage employee claims religious discrimination in firing
- Vonage is being sued by a former employee of Orthodox Jewish faith that the company declined to give him time off to observe several religious holidays as well as the Friday evening/Saturday Sabbath.The suit, which was filed in federal court on June 26, holds that Holmdel, N.J.-based Vonage fird...
- Tags: Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-07-11
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- The Apple II is baaaaccckk (via emulator)
- The Apple II is baaaaccckk via emulatorAt last! Now I can finally get rid of my Apple IIc. nt..RE: The Apple II is baaaaccckk via emulatorI think I will still use my Apple IIc. Theres something about putting that 5.25" disk in that external drive and pushing down the lever,...
- Tags: Apple II, Apple Inc., emulator
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
- Have we all become a bunch of anxious, depressed, sleep-deprived irritable stress-heads?
- Let's face it, the last month or so has been a challenge for just about anyone's tolerance of stress and has made even the most "stable" of us question our own emotional and mental health. But I've discovered that IT workers in particular, or anyone who...
- Tags: Sleep, Job, Beverage, Health Care, Computer, Recruitment & Selection, Benefits, Vertical Industries, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Productivity, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Manufacturing, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Open source in a time of recession
- We face what my late friend Russell Shaw called "a shrinking water hole." Not every company will survive the drought. But open source as a business model will survive, because it's an adaptation that is meant for days like these. by Dana Blankenhorn
- Tags: Recession, Open Source, Dana Blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Microsoft starts sharing details on SQL Server 'Kilimanjaro'
- Microsoft starts sharing details on SQL Server 'Kilimanjaro'RE: Microsoft starts sharing details on SQL Server 'Kilimanjaro'Microsoft is becoming seriously annoying with its bad habit to release that often both SQL Server and Visual Studio new products.For gosh sake, new versions of these products come with so many new features/capabilities that...
- Tags: Microsoft SQL Server, Kilimanjaro, Microsoft Start, server, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-06
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You
- To: Circuit City and Best Buy, From: You"We don't pay you to think."As an ex-employee computer technician from the pilot store, this was told to me verbatim several times. To me it sounded curious because if anyone should be thinking, it should be the guy repairing the computers, right?If you...
- Tags: Sales strategy, Sales force management, Best Buy Co. Inc., Circuit City Stores Inc., LET IT, sales
- Discussion threads 2008-10-01
- Student Technology Day: how to start a start-up
- Andy McLoughlin spoke a little while ago about how he started up his own web start-up, Huddle.net, from a simple idea in a pub to a fully working business and enterprise collaboration suite. It's a large network of hosted workspaces; yet another project management and team collaboration service based on...
- Tags: Inspiration, Family, Huddle.net, Collaboration, Groupware, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Zack Whittaker
- Blog posts 2008-10-01
- India's outsourcing bubble is bursting
- India's outsourcing bubble is burstingIndia's outsourcing bubble is burstingProbably because outsourcing doesn't work.Long overdueIt's about time. It never should have gained traction in the first place. It makes me cringe everytime I hear out political leaders saying how "education" is how we must compete in the global economy....
- Tags: outsourcing, outsource
- Discussion threads 2008-09-30
- Polk Audio DSW Pro 400 - subwoofer
- When it comes to subwoofers, Polk Audio has at least four product lines with models in the sub-$600 price range (including some below just $200). After reviewing 8-inch models in the Monitor and PSW Series--the PSW10 and PSW111, respectively--we decided to check out the equivalent model in the DSW Pro...
- Tags: Consumer electronics, DSW, DSW Pro 400
- Product reviews 2008-09-26
- Budget season: shiny new collaboration models for 2009!
- The large IT vendors have really latched onto the collaboration buzz created by enterprise 2.0 and are rolling out their offerings for the 2009 budgeting season in large enterprises. Oracle's Beehive launched this week at Oracle OpenWorld, and Cisco also launched their new 'collaboration portfolio'....
- Tags: Collaboration, Oracle Corp., Financial, Cisco Systems Inc., Oliver Marks
- Blog posts 2008-09-24
- The price of a pink slip
- The price of a pink slipdouble-edged swordThis is a double-edged sword. Employers are going to be much more reluctant to hire someone if they know they will have to continue paying them after they fire them. And what's the incentive for a laid-off worker to look for a...
- Tags: pink slip, worker
- Discussion threads 2008-09-23
- Hackers deface LHC site, came close to turning off particle detector
- Is it now cyberwar over atom-smashing? A team of Greek hackers calling themselvses Greek Security Team has penetrated the Large Hadron Collider and defaced a public website. No real damage done, but the hackers got perilously close. The hackers attacked the Compact Muon Solenoid Experiment, or...
- Tags: Hacker, Content Management System, LHC, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-09-12
- Flight attendants call for ban of WiFi porn in the skies.
- Flight attendants call for ban of WiFi porn in the skies.I can see their concern but ...... movies on laptops have been commonplace for many years. There doesn't seem to have been rampant viewing of adult DVDs or downloaded videos on planes as a result. I think it's a non-issue...
- Tags: Wireless LANs, WiFi porn, Flight Attendant, Wi-Fi, laptop computer
- Discussion threads 2008-09-11
- Flight attendants call for ban of WiFi porn in the skies.
- I kind of laughed out loud when I heard this morning that flight attendants, concerned about the arrival of in-flight WiFi, are calling for a ban on passengers watching pornography in the skies. Why laugh? Because I've never been an HBO subscriber, I had never seen The Sopranos - so,...
- Tags: Flight, Drunk, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Hey, Dad, did you hear the world was going to end this week?
- So says my oldest nonchalantly as he go in the car yesterday. He was, of course, referring to the Large Hadron Collider that just conducted its first successful test, firing a stream of particles under the Alps. Although he was somewhat cavalier (he's 16; he's always cavalier), he,...
- Tags: Science, LHC, Productivity, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-09-11
- Is VoIP the way forward?
- Is VoIP the way forward?VOIP Works Well For MeI disconnected at the street telco box for a coupla yrs now.The Shaw cable signal here in Calgary is reliable. I have an APC UPS unit to carry me thro' a brown/blackout. I'm paying for cable anyway to give me high speed...
- Tags: Telephony, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Telecom & Utilities, VoIP
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- The Importance of Dissent
- The Importance of Dissentwould be nice...It would be nice if we could "shout from the rooftops" without fear of reprisal. In reality, with most companies, the options are "jump ship" or "keep your mouth shut and do as you're told".It's hard to disagree publicly with your companyI agree with you...
- Tags: Drizzle, Mat, open source
- Discussion threads 2008-09-05
- Revenge of the techies
- Revenge of the techiesThink of it this way.You fired me, i had planned on living my life as it were, i might have a house and kids to take care of, you have essentially ruined me. Now it might not seem right to destroy and take information, but that...
- Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Revenge, job
- Discussion threads 2008-09-03
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