Category: Career

The Big Idea is: Nobody likes team building

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date August 13, 2014
Categories In All Things MidnightDBA, Career, DBAs@Midnight, People and Opinions
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In our Season 6 opener of DBAs@Midnight, we talked about (among other things) the giant pain that is company-mandated team building. I’m writing here from my experiences as an IT professional, with many years of work, and many hours wasted in “building teams”. Team building assumes that you are part of a working team – […]

Scalzi’s Law of Cleverness, as applied to resumes

Post author By Jen McCown
Post date December 16, 2013
Categories In Career, People and Opinions, Random helpfulness, sql server, sqlserverpedia-syndication, SSC

John Scalzi (blog, Twitter) – science fiction writer, Hugo award winner, philosopher, and blogger extraordinaire – has an adage that I wish to formally declare a law, in my power as a rather less prolific blogger and a fellow human being. Scalzi’s Law goes like this: The failure mode of clever is “asshole.” The linked blog says, […]