There are bonuses and then there are bonuses. Something that is supposed to be reward for a job well done (either individually, or on a company level) has been perverted and twisted over the recent years, so much so that it is anything but that nowadays. From employers who cut salaries to half or more Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #78: Bonus time.[…]
I get really puzzled whenever I am on vacation with someone and their work phone rings more often than I get sunburned (which is fairly often!) I tend to take it as a sign of lack of management skills in the upper echelons of the organization. Here is a recent example from my experience: I Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #52: Filling in[…]
People in the IT industry use this term all the time. Almost always when there’s an update of a software, you can see in the changelog the line “Various quality of life improvements.” But what do they mean by that? “Quality of life improvements” in the field of the IT industry, are software improvements meant Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #45: Quality of life[…]
I was giving a ride to friend the other day. I always keep a book on the co-driver seat since it’s usually empty (yes, I know, not very eco-friendly to a drive an empty car daily – in my defense, public transportation in Cyprus is practically non-existent and I am scared of motorbikes, so…). My Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #36: People vs finance[…]
One of the things that I am often requested to do, is to improve (in other words, bring up to professional standards) the financial models that some companies are either creating in-house, or are procuring from inadequate (read: cheap) financial modelers. (Ironically, this also means that they end up paying way more than what they Read more about Something’s Gotta Give #28: Efficiency at work[…]