“History is only the pattern of silken slippers descending the stairs to the thunder of hobnailed boots climbing upward from below.”~ Voltaire
It’s been a while since I’ve written about work. In fact, I haven’t done much…
This month my company featured me on our portal in a blog-style interview. I thought I’d share since I haven’t posted much about work lately. Here you go:
Get to Know John Demma
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“I didn’t hear no bell.”[/caption]
This barber, he had to be seventy, was telling me once while trimming me up how he just had a whole bunch of cancer surgically…
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Finding REMO[/caption]
That’s a picture of a cute little clownfish, we’ll call him Remo, swimming among sea anemone. Most fish would not be feeling too good right…
You prepared for days, dressed for success, made a great first impression, nailed the behavior based interview questions, and survived to the final moments of your interview. Now it’s your turn to ask the…
I’m a fraud and so are you. We run around pretending we know a thing or two about a thing or two. And we’re surround by all of these experts on subjects from economics to science to sociology to religion and the Big Question. Everyone’s such a smartypants.
In 1519 Hernán Cortés the Conquistador led a flotilla of 11 ships to the eastern shores of Mexico against the…
As I detailed in this kind of weird article, the work world is not the real world. Work is a made up place, work hierarchies are made up things, and there’s really no such thing as bosses and employees…
I swore I wasn’t going to be one of those parents who would toss empty threats at their kids to try to coerce them into good behavior. You know the old, “If you don’t stop I swear we’re not going to the park,” routine. I can hear my son…