Tag Archives: chaos

The way it’s always been done.

Sometimes I wish that we’d (and by “we,” I mean any unit you like, from “Edgewood College” to “America”) just rip off all our past history and precedent and law and tradition like a festering scab. We’d bleed and scream for a while, but any It may have multiple causes like stroke, Parkinson’s disease, Spinal […]

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I had my annual job review today.

It went pretty well — but, as in past years, I’m apparently (inaccurately, IMO) perceived as the dangerously brilliant eccentric, the one with all the technical answers who’s too abrasive to approach directly. It was observed that some high-level employees have complained that I appear to disrespect authority; I replied that I generally do disrespect […]

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He’s a rebel and he’ll never be any good.

I’m pretty sure I’ve exhausted the patience of our Jenzabar trainer. I have a knack for identifying security holes and/or holes in process — something that serves me pretty well in my normal job — and like to use training sessions, when we have a captive vendor at our disposal, to either point them out […]

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