winding down
Posted: May 17, 2014 Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: fart machine, stress, team, work 15 CommentsWith the merger winding down, my team will soon disperse. We managed a thousand servers which supported over seven billion dollars in sales. These guys met every challenge, innovated, standardized and automated – truly rock stars. The stress was great and they never faltered.
The million dollar team
But we had fun too….
phhhhhffffttttt
working days – horses
Posted: September 3, 2013 Filed under: horses, travel, wyoming | Tags: clique, duty, effort, horses, people, work 39 CommentsHorses are alot like people. On a horse ranch, they need to work. That means a commute each morning. Some are leaders
leading the way – picture by Jason Stomps, all rights reserved
Some trot behind.
trotting in picture by Jason Stomps – all rights reserved
And of course there’s always a joker in the bunch.
Always a comedian in the bunch. – picture by Jason Stomps, all rights reserved
Some are content to mosey in, just like some people I work with…
Last one in gets to do less.
– picture by Jason Stomps, all rights reserved
Horses even have cliques, here Chief ( red ) tells Lacey and Sunday this cubicle is taken. Don’t they look mean with their ears back? A bit like my daughters when I told them “Nothing good happens after midnight.”
Just like us, these horses work every day. But don’t feel too bad, they winter running free on a huge ranch. I wonder if like me, they wish they could prance away from responsibility?
What me worry ?
Picture Jason Stomps – all rights reserved
May your work bring you pleasure.
is it bragging…
Posted: May 5, 2013 Filed under: cancer, figures of speech, pearls of wisdom | Tags: cancer, Celebration, graduate, healing, hope, MBA, MSU, work 32 Commentsyep…. Read the rest of this entry »
job review
Posted: January 24, 2013 Filed under: pearls of wisdom | Tags: failure, job, promotion, reviews, success, work 31 CommentsI’ve worked a few years, hired hired people, fired a couple when I had to, and written performance reviews. One thing that amazes me is how some people sell themselves short on reviews. Read the rest of this entry »
dressed down….
Posted: November 14, 2012 Filed under: history, pearls of wisdom | Tags: boss, coming of age, cursed out, dressed down, fear, growing up, my history, pearls of wisdom, work 34 CommentsAt twenty-two or so, I was running the operations staff of eight people. They were all older than I was and I certainly made every mistake possible trying to manage that grumpy unhappy lot. Read the rest of this entry »
promises… don’t tell me you love me
Posted: November 13, 2012 Filed under: figures of speech, history, pearls of wisdom | Tags: job, my history, pay, promises, salary, titles, work 23 CommentsI hauled in $8.65 per hour working in IT, $346.15 per week, $18,000 per year. Read the rest of this entry »
more democracy hangs by a thread
Posted: November 4, 2012 Filed under: history, pearls of wisdom | Tags: election, hanging chad, history, precinct, voting, ward, work 8 CommentsShutting Drawers Read the rest of this entry »
it works…
Posted: September 14, 2012 Filed under: history, pearls of wisdom | Tags: bathrooms, figure out a woman, pearls of wisdom, surprise, take your daughter to work day, work 13 CommentsFor take your daughter to work day I brought my young daughter in to see our computer room and datacenter where I worked. Read the rest of this entry »
electron dreams — haiku
Posted: June 20, 2012 Filed under: haiku, poetry | Tags: compute, dreams, haiku, love, poem, poetry, work 4 Commentsa triplet…can you find the third haiku? Read the rest of this entry »
every day the same?
Posted: April 9, 2012 Filed under: history | Tags: every day the same, fire, in a rut at work, work 2 CommentsIn a rut at work? Some days are certain to surprise you.
beware the dry mulch
