Rands In Repose: Trickle Theory
Back at the start-up, we were shifting gears. After six months of talking about shipping a product, we needed to ship a product and nothing gets everyone’s attention like a deadline. The good news was that QA had been doing its job and there was a pile of work in our [...]
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iPods at war : Page 1
DJs in the desert
One of Mikhail Woltering’s strangest experiences in Iraq came when he helped a US unit fix a problem with their satellite TV hookup. One of the soldiers in the unit had hauled an amazing array of electronic gear into the desert with him: expensive computer, turntables, speakers. [...]
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FUBAR: Your DIY Bloopers
Note that in the following stories, I’m only using first names, in an attempt to protect the guilty here. While I’ve cleaned up grammar and typos, I’ve really tried to retain the tone of each story, as it was presented. I’ve added comments in italics, so you can tell when it’s me [...]
For once, a bad boss could be a good thing…
The U.S. labor movement is asking workers to move their complaints about their bosses from the water cooler to the Web.
Working America, the AFL-CIO union federation’s affiliate for nonunion workers, invited workers throughout the country on Monday to share their best stories about their worst bosses [...]
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