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04-23-2024, 09:54 AM | #181 |
Bono & Grbac wasn't enough
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There's always the Jerry springer show caveat tho
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04-23-2024, 11:48 AM | #182 | |
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I would get involved in their issue, if needed. I'd get focused and turn around and half the day was gone but got the issue resolved. My bosses noticed for sure. It was on on every yearly evaluation. When I asked do you want to change? A quick no was always the response, just be aware. they have to put something negative on those evaluations. |
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04-23-2024, 12:09 PM | #183 | |
On Hiatus
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There were some people who became less focused and less productive when working at home. I had one of my team members who was working another job during the day while she was supposed to be working for our company. Her work suffered and when I would have discussions about her drop in performance she would blame everyone and everything else. All in all it really is based on the associates work habits...most who work hard at work will also work hard at home. But not in every case |
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04-23-2024, 01:02 PM | #184 | |
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Your average office worker probably needs to be watched for performance issues. They can get demotivated for so many reasons. Employees can slack off from time to time and a supervisor talk usually clears it up. Or puts them on notice of unsatisfactory performance. |
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04-23-2024, 01:56 PM | #185 | |
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And the pretty-much 24x7 availability network engineers seem to have (and get paid well for) makes easy of "getting in" much less stressful. |
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04-23-2024, 02:01 PM | #186 | |
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But I was lucky, network engineers, especially the WAN folks, aren't usually too much of a problem when it comes to these sorts of things. |
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04-23-2024, 02:28 PM | #187 |
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Have you developed a tattoo system yet, and how will you avoid the pitfalls that Guy Pierce encountered?
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04-23-2024, 05:27 PM | #188 |
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Location: Shawnee KS
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Enjoy your retirement. As someone who fights memory issues as well - reviewing Google Calendar a few times a day helps remind me of stuff that needs doing.
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04-24-2024, 06:23 AM | #189 | |
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I've been putting everything in the calendar on the I-Phone. Making notes etc. |
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04-24-2024, 07:52 AM | #190 | |
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Managing a team of IT associates for the most part is easier than back office associates. I think one of the things that makes me glad I am retiring now is that I found myself playing referee than Manager |
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04-24-2024, 08:37 AM | #191 |
Bono & Grbac wasn't enough
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Download an app to take notes in. I use one called inkpad. Love it and kept notes on various things for years. Things I wouldn't remember, like how to shut off the fridge in our camper when we close down for the year.
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04-24-2024, 11:25 AM | #192 | |
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I was very lucky across my time working my way up from engineer, to lead engineer (non-supervisory team lead), to supervisor, to department head, so senior leadership because of the nature of my work. We had the occasional bad apple make their way into our ranks, but knowing the rules and how the game is played, and playing that game from the very beginning, really helped us when we needed to remove an employee who couldn't hack the kind of work that network engineers have to do. That said, I LOVE being retired and I don't miss I.T. even a little bit... |
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04-24-2024, 02:00 PM | #193 | |
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I loved my freedom most of my career. I had to produce, give progress updates to management and the C-suites but most times they just left me alone to go do my thing. I always brought it home on time. |
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04-24-2024, 06:58 PM | #194 |
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Detail oriented and hard-ass aren't the same. The biggest challenge for engineers becoming leaders (beyond team leads) is the understanding of things that math can't define. The math formula called "HR" is one of those inexplicable things, and most engineers suffer for a while before they realize that you can't deal with the HR problem with simple physics and higher education, it's an enigma, you have to feed the beast that drools stupid and learn to tame that flea-infested beast. HR doesn't get logic, they get emotion, saving money on staff, and agendas (and staff reduction), so you have to deal with their BoD-directed reerunation without consulting the time honored text books that were used at university.
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04-25-2024, 04:54 AM | #195 | |
In Search of a Life
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We onboarded a Help Desk Tech last fall and he was fortunate enough to be paired with me coming in. I've always been an open book when it comes to my knowledge and techniques and processes and encourage people to steal it for themselves and run with it. Kid was smart enough to do exactly that so it was a pleasure to see him be promoted into my old role when I got moved up into a senior position. Never understood the ones that hoard everything. |
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