The discipline to have a home office I learned through time. In former positions with prior companies I had the home office. An uncle give me great advice that rung true and that is it has to be an office. So when we were house shopping for the move I made sure we have the “home [...]
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Every 2 weeks I would hop on a Continental flight with three connections to get to upstate NY. Yes, that’s 6 times a trip I would get on and off a airplane with all the coughing kids, grumbling parents and generally grumpy travelers who don’t seem to know what “No liquid or gels” through TSA means [...] Water cooler talk is a major aspect of telecommuting that is missed by both the remote worker as well as the company. The ability to just walk up to someones cube and have a chat about a client or product and work through a strategy. As a remote worker, water cooler talk now has to be [...] So the layoff is done. You desk is cleaned out and your years of serviced have been reduced to a couple of cardboard boxes. What comes next will vary for different people and will depend on the type of position you had. If you had a position that was middle to upper levels in the company [...] So you are getting terminated or as some may call it, a causality of a Reduction in Force. I cannot begin to tell you now important it is to get things in writing, even emails are better than nothing when you are getting RIFed/lay-ed off/fired/terminated or whatever the term of the day is. Having both your [...] There have been tons of articles written on the subject. Some by people who have been through it, others who haven’t. Personally, I have been on both sides of that desk, so I do know what is running through peoples heads. Take the following as my personal spin on what is going on during the actual [...] According to wikipedia : RIF – A generic reduction in force, of undetermined method. Often pronounced like the word riff rather than spelled out. Sometimes used as a verb, as in “the employees were pretty heavily riffed“. This is the second time in my 20 year career that I have been RIFed. The first time was part [...] |
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