Tag: culture
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Be There For Others
This may be one of the more compelling reasons I’ve heard so far for return-to-office: that in-office culture is especially beneficial for folks starting out when they’re picking up good habits, skills, and domain knowledge.
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Last Meeting of the Day
Someone told me a story about the executive in their meeting being very generously willing to go over the scheduled time as it was their last meeting of the day, and they’re usually hard to get time with, but unfortunately that didn’t work for everyone.
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Routine Guilter
Something like this was suggested for a comic – I’m not casting aspersions on anyone.
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Lifeline
Good luck with that first servicing loop.
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Scheduling Divisions
I am sure that the company would prefer if you could avoid filling out your annual job satisfaction survey right after a really bad on-call loop.
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Unexpected Returns
Luckily this was from 10 years ago, and I feel like we have, collectively, gotten better about working while on vacation.
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It’s Business Hours Somewhere
Seriously though, it does suck to have to be the one waking other people up at their 3 AM.
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Don’t Look Now
There can be a fine line to walk between “really honest” and “don’t scare the new person” when going over how things currently work.
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Ask Me Almost Anything
I expect that everyone may break the build at some point, but not everyone can get the boss to swear at them.
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Office Perks
Come to the office, they said. There are free drinks!