Justified denial

By Chris | April 30, 2014 |

I guess for some folks any level or irresponsibility can be justified if it has a plausible-sounding excuse. Actual quote from an email received by a colleague today: Our development environment is not version controlled for the sake of speed when developing/testing new features. I encourage him to reply with something along the lines of…

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Wanna work with me? (You do.)

By Chris | April 3, 2014 |

If you’re in Denver, Las Vegas, or Los Angeles, the company I work for (and really enjoy working with) is hiring. We are actively hiring for several roles on our team. We’d like to add some additional design/front-end capabilities as well as several back-end or full-stack web developers. More about these roles can be found…

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Not confidence-inspiring

By Chris | April 2, 2014 |

When you’re talking to a customer service rep and they ask if they can call you back because it will take a few minutes to find the information you requested, that’s OK. What’s not OK is for that rep to not ask for a phone number, especially when said number was neither asked for nor…

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