Every now and then, someone asks me “Are you a student?” It has become a sort of introductory line at seminars and conferences for sales and PR people to start a conversation with me. They look at me, then look at my name tag, see that I come from a university, and then think that I’m probably a student.
Tag Archives: work
Disaster Recovery Drill
With the push of this button, the air circuit breaker is switched off, and the disaster recovery (DR) drill is officially started. Yes, if you notice from the photo, the circuit breaker is huge. It is not like any common circuit breaker you find in your household electrical panel. This is a huge circuit breaker sized for 2500 amperes 3-phase current. It’s 415V, more than the typical 230V household power supply, but in the grander scheme of things, this is…
Teaching People to Work Together
It’s funny how when we are small kids, we don’t need to be taught to get together to have fun. Yet when we grow up, oraganizations spend large sums of money to teach adults how to work together. Team building is becoming an important thing for many companies. Today I was called back to a RSAF team building event; Last Friday, my work place organized a team building retreat at Orchid Country Club.
How To Use A Door
How often have you come across mindless instructions? This one is not as funny, but still, do you need instructions on how to exit a door? These instructions are pasted everywhere at my work place, probably because we have too many PHDs (permanent head damage) around who don’t know what to do with a door. Ah, but therein lies the challenge with this particular door. The instructions refer to an exit button, but there are no exit buttons. In case…
I Hate Writing Minutes
I hate writing minutes. I wonder why hasn’t anyone yet invented an automatic minute taker. It doesn’t help when people in the meeting talk nonsense 90% of the time, jump back and forth between multiple topics, and some people speak for the sake of being heard. Sometimes it takes hours to write the minutes. They should have called it Hours. And, how often do minutes actually get read?