Category: Career

Employees, encourage work from home

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date May 22, 2017
Categories In Career, People and Opinions, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
4 Comments on Employees, encourage work from home

The discussion around the last article I wrote on work from home (WFH) has been wonderful, but there is one aspect that drives me nutty-freaking bonkers: “But, I don’t want to work from home!“ Oh, my stars and grasslands. Techies: I don’t want to force work from home. I’m not trying to make you. I’m not telling employers to […]

Employers, let your people work from home

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date May 17, 2017
Categories In Career, People and Opinions, Philosophy, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
31 Comments on Employers, let your people work from home

Work from home is, astoundingly, still not the norm in United States IT offices. This is ludicrous, because employees want it, employers can provide it, and the objections to work from home do not hold up. Let’s talk.

I am not a “wogrammer”

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date August 27, 2015
Categories In Career, People and Opinions, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC
7 Comments on I am not a “wogrammer”

So apparently the COO of Facebook is trying to make the word “wogrammer” – a woman programmer – a thing. (Thanks to Vicky Harp for pointing out this infuriating thing.) I cannot stress how fundamentally opposed I am to this, new, stupidest of ideas. Why? Let’s delve into a little bit of common wordage. Here […]