Friday, 7 September 2012

Geeks, Games and Greatness Podcast - Episode 14


A new host for our podcasts, and it's up for you listening pleasure. This week we discuss house improvements, puppies and birds, Facebook games, Doctor Who, Windows Phone 8, Pirate Bay, Robot Cars, Clint Eastwood and Magic: The Gathering.

If the player below doesn't work, you can get the podcast here: http://cognoscenti.podbean.com/ The site design and such is still in the works.


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Sunday, 2 September 2012

How to keep IT workers happy, Part 3



Show some respect. Seriously, the people maintaining and improving your IT infrastructure are not trained monkeys. They are people just like you. They have studied for many years and are experts in their field. They are doing everything they can for your benefit.

If you have a meeting with someone, you should arrive on time. Being late indicates that you don’t value the time of the people who you are making wait. What makes your time more valuable than theirs? They have jobs too. They have projects to finish. They have work to do for you.

And God help you if you don’t arrive at the meeting at all without informing everyone beforehand. That is the height of incivility and anyone who sits around waiting for you is, in my opinion, fully justified to make you wait just as long in the next meeting. Or perhaps they should just put together a report about how long you screw around on Facebook?

-Odd
“Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?” -Confucius