Category: work
Job Faire at the Circle A Ranch
dieppe‘s post on this reminded me I should probably post it as well. Circle A Ranch, where I work, is having a job faire tomorrow. If folks are interested, I encourage you to stop on by. I’ll be glad to refer in resumes; I’m sure ellipticcurve would do so as well.
I Do It The Company Way!
Earlier today, I wrote:
While I was walking back from the cafeteria with my lunch today, a fellow employee turned to me and asked if there was a full menu in the cafeteria today. I replied that I didn’t know; I get the same thing every day. I thought about adding “Their haddock sandwich; it’s delicious … early in the week.” I didn’t think he would get the reference, however.
I wondered if anyone would get the reference. One anonymous poster and talonvaki did; another found the reference via web search. Perhaps it was too much for people to recognize a line from an early 1960s musical, even if it was revived in the 1990s. So, here’s the answer:
Business Cultural References (or) What Way Do I Do It?
While I was walking back from the cafeteria with my lunch today, a fellow employee turned to me and asked if there was a full menu in the cafeteria today. I replied that I didn’t know; I get the same thing every day. I thought about adding “Their haddock sandwich; it’s delicious … early in the week.” I didn’t think he would get the reference, however.
Do you?
The Project Is Dead, Jim
There are a number of articles in the issue, but the one I felt was worthy of note was Leadership, The Final Frontier: Lessons From the Captains of Star Trek.This article looks at the advantages and disadvantages in the approaches used by each Star Trek captain and how managers can use the lessons taught by the captains. It explores the different management styles of each captain, and what they did right and wrong. To give you some ideas of what is said (note: the author actually mispelled some names):
The Name is Bond. Savings Bond.
As many folks know, we moved last summer. Right after we moved, I dutifully changed my address with my employer, expecting them to notify all of the parties that were doing deductions through them for my benefit: group insurance, savings bonds, etc.
Last night, something triggered in my head that I hadn’t received a Savings Bond in a while. I checked Quicken, and low-and-behold, the last bond I received was in July 2005. About 6 $100 bonds were missing. This morning, I got into work and checked the company intraweb. They said to call National Bond and Trust Company [(800) 426-9314], which is what I did. It turns out that (a) they still had my old address; (b) they were still sending bonds to my old address; and (c) bonds don’t get forwarded being government mail. The good thing is that the bonds were too recent to be cashed. They are sending me the paperwork to request reissuance of the bonds, but still… for those of you that have payroll deduction towards savings bonds… forewarned is forearmed.