Recent content by Corran007

If you really have a strong desire to get into IT work, see if you can do that for your police force. Not sure if he still is, but the CIO of the chicago police force is a chicago police officer. He came from within. See if there are opportunities at your workplace to do IT work. It may take a...

It all depends why they want your time. At a prior company(where we werent billing customers) we had to report our time. The CIO finally informed us why after we started complaining about it. He was putting all the info into a database and analyzing it. He would then inquire about if he saw...

My prior company issued cell phones to the IT staff. Each phone went to a certain position. Some users knew to directly call certain people when they had certain predfined problems. By issuing them this way, when turnover occurs they do not have to learn a new number.

I agree completly mmorancbt. The people i find the most annoying are the ones who complain about everything and do nothing to improve anything. I myself complain perhaps more than i should, course its usually only the really minor things. My wife says its just since i dont have anything big...

1dmf, that is a very short sited view. It depends on the company a great deal. For example at my last company i did all my work for another department, HR/Payroll specifally. My IT manager was there as a paperwork and problem solving manager. I sent her what i had accomplished weekly since she...

Since a business analyst means alot of things, tell us more about what you do.

That the company let you go after speaking up is inexcusable gsmitherman. The problem with this is who determies what a deadbeat is? How do you accuratly determine what constitues a deadbeat? Strictly a manager evaluation? Are they qualified to be able to do an accurate assessment of thier...

It depends. I would look into the details of what ever country you are looking at. I remember reading a couple articles on companys that got burned by outsourcing overseas to place where the laws were a great deal less stringent. And make sure you are really sure about it. Most companys are...

I can concur with adjusting to the process. At my last company, i was assigned to work with HR and payroll(i took care of the hr and payroll systems) HR was widly know for being the worst group to work with. They demanded things immideatly and to be finished yesterday. When i was just starting...

Ill give one final response. Ive read the usage policys since it is in about 8 different documents. Nothing is at all mentioned about personal data on a company issued personal machine. It does have mention on sharded storage though so it is something they have considered. So as near as i can...

Actually the biggest problem is the liabity of the music from a companies perspective. I own all my music that i bring to work. I have them all ripped to a server at my house. I load them on a cd or usb drive to bring in. I then load them on my machine. I can afford to buy one music player. i...

I guess it depends on your employees. At my company (fortune 100) i have music on my machine that i brought in and ripped from my cds. I only have music that i brought in and ripped. If my management cared about it, i could drive home and bring back each of the cds to show them. if your just...

You can be friends with your boss. As long of both of you know they are the boss and you work for them. I have a great relalatioship with my prior boss. I left my last company for a great job half way accross the coutnry. She was happy for me. She helped my wife pack up our house and is coming...

All my companies ive been salaried and no overtime first comapany bout 50 hours a week but only had to do 40, fortune 50 company second, go go dot com days. worked 60-70 avg. i had over 100 hours some weeks. startup around 150 people before layoffs began third, avged 50-60. i think this is just...

Ill give for my last company Retail Grocery Store Chain, 50 Stores,1 Corporate office, 7500 or so employees(obviously we have some part timers) 1 Director 1 Programs Manager 6 Developers/Analysts/Software support/anything not hardware related 1 Systems Manager 1 help desk person 1 Server...