Comments on: Five things that are about to stop sucking at work

By: Jannet

Jannet — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:54:33 +0000

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Entrepreneurial Lessons from “Weeds” | Bizzy Women — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 13:08:08 +0000

[...] And from what I hear a little flirting in the workplace has never hurt productivity. [...]

By: Cathy Goodwin

Cathy Goodwin — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 23:16:53 +0000

Not-so-high heels? I read that WSJ article too. The only really comfortable shoes cost as much as Manolo Blahniks. Even mid-heeled shoes will squash your toes, especially if your feet are shaped like little rectangles. Mine are.

So men like women who like feminine? Thirty years ago men didn't want women in the workplace at all.

Everybody used to like smoking, too. Isn't it a little medieval to say we must tolerate foot pain, stress, tendinitis and other conditions to gain acceptance in the workplace?

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Shoeaholics Anonymous Shoe Blog » Blog Archive » Stop Sucking at Work — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 06:02:09 +0000

[...] that knows how much I like shoes and talking about them sent me this article by Penelope Trunk: Five things that are about to stop sucking at work. I could not pass up sharing number 4… 4. The tyranny of high heels will give way to the [...]

By: PCD

PCD — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 14:33:51 +0000

"Now he’s at Microsoft and his job is to buy companies."

Is that another resume 'stretch'?

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Wed, 30 Jul 2008 13:30:38 +0000

[...] And from what I hear a little flirting in the workplace has never hurt productivity. [...]

By: Adam

Adam — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 07:12:35 +0000

I think you missed this one Penelope

"The tyranny of tech support will be exposed and they will actually offer help."

I've been on both sides of the tech support equation (I'm one of the techies who tells you what happened, why, how to solve it next time, and/or if you even need to know those things)

The problem isn't completely tech support, nor is it completely the user's fault. I'll even say both of those groups together don't even come close to half the blame. They're only the visible targets. (users and techies)

"Users will demand programs that are, in fact, usable."

Most program's user interfaces suck. They aren't usable. They don't work for humans in general. Users in general won't ever "get it". Until software companies (other than Apple) "get it" we all have to make do with stuff that promises productivity but only adds lots of aggravation to the minor productivity boosts.

I think I'll put my soap box away before I really get into it ;)

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Another way I kinda grew up white. . . « Korean Adoptee Bride — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 15:40:40 +0000

[...] Five things that are about to stop sucking at work [...]

By: J

Tue, 29 Jul 2008 08:17:54 +0000

Women should care what they look like at work.

As should men.

By: LizD

LizD — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:07:17 +0000

#2 made me laugh, but I couldn't bring myself to watch the whole video. I've had tech support people tell me that what I see on the website doesn't exist. Then I create a PDF of what I see on the website, email it to them, and they claim the PDF says something different too. Both those bozos were frustrating.

It made me think about an experience I had calling internal tech support at Harvard Med School. I had just gotten hired to work in a research lab, and had only worked on PCs (DOS and Windows) before. This lab had Macs. I knew there was a specific program on the Mac that I needed to use. I knew the name of the program. But I couldn't figure out how to start it or how to find it. It didn't appear to be on the desktop, and I didn't see any "start" button. None of the windows keyboard shortcuts seemed to do anything. No one else in the lab was around, so I called tech support. They told me that they didn't support the program I wanted to start, so they couldn't help me. I said I didn't need help with that program, I just wanted to know how to start any program that you didn't see on the desktop on a Mac. They said they didn't support that program. I asked what programs they supported. They weren't allowed to tell me. It went on like this for a while. I finally just had to wait for someone else who worked in the lab to come back and tell me how to access a program not on the desktop. This was 10 years ago and I'm still mad. I just felt so powerless!