Digital ADD

April 5th, 2012

Check email

  • Read article from cool Designtaxi email
    • Share article to Facebook
      • Read Facebook stream
        • like, like, like, lol
        • share
        • answer comment
    • Tweet article link to Twitter
      • RT cool tweet links
      • Share cool links on Facebook
        • like, like, like, lol
        • share
        • answer comment

Answer pressing email (from yesterday)

Take shower, towel dry

Look at message on iPhone

  • Answer Twitter question
  • "Thanks for the RT"
  • Comment on Facebook comment
    • like, like, like, lol
    • share

Check into Foursquare

Walk to Starbucks

  • Pay with Starbucks digital iPhone card
  • Check into Foursquare
  • Tweet to everyone that you are, indeed, getting coffee at Starbucks

Drive back to home office

Check into Foursquare

Open work IRC

work, work, work

Check Email

  • Answer Twitter question
  • "Thanks for the RT"
  • Comment on Facebook comment
    • like, like, like, lol
    • share

work, work, work

Walk to lunch

  • Tweet picture of your incredible sandwich, the likes of which you're sure that everyone will be interested in.
  • Answer Twitter question
  • "Thanks for the RT" of your sandwich pic, confirming that "indeed, people really did want to see what you were eating"
  • Comment on Facebook comment
  • like, like, like, lol
  • share

Check into Foursquare

Walk back

Check into Foursquare

Check back into work IRC

work, work, work

Check Email

  • Answer Twitter question
  • "Thanks for the RT"
  • Comment on Facebook comment
    • like, like, like, lol
    • share

Wrap up work

Check into Foursquare (Damn @magurski is still ahead of me in points!)

Go out to eat with family

Check into Foursquare

Play with #1son and Cathy

Tuck #1son into bed

Spend time with the most wonderful woman on earth

Check Email

  • Answer Twitter question
  • "Thanks for the RT"
  • Comment on Facebook comment
    • like, like, like, lol
    • share

Remark how well Cathy is doing on her "Words With Friends" games

Kiss Goodnight

 

...the modern lifestyle. :/

I actually wrote this two days before Google released this concept video of their "Project Glass"- God help us:

 

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The “Mobile Workforce”

March 29th, 2012

After reading Jaclyn Schiff's article on job hopping, it got me thinking about my own view of today's workforce.  I've made some major pivots in my career, some due to economic downturns, some to the "got to move out to move up" situation prevalent in so many companies nowadays. Today's workforce is as fluid as our society is. In the 80's, when companies started to replace the "lifetime employee grooming" with "people are capital" (that can be acquired and removed, at will), the workforce responded with "what's good for the goose is good for the gander!"

In the dot com era, companies started to value employees as partners (complete with equity and parachutes), but then that all exploded with the dot bomb. I still have my paper stock from Healant that went from a value of $70k to the current price of one sheet of recycled paper.

Today it's mixed, with some companies that do and some that don't value their employees as assets. Some employees that want security and some that thrive on change and can't sit still. Also, there's a heck of a lot more employees that are striking off on their own as freelancers or business owners.

Compared to my parent's generation, my generation is incredibly mobile, and the emerging generation is downright fluid! I feel it's a healthy change that forces companies to value their employees a little more, and employees to value opportunities as they come.

Just as a bad employee has developed a bad reputation, companies with bad [employee relations] will develop a bad reputation. Good employees will stay away from bad companies like good companies will stay away from bad employees. In many ways, the crappy companies will be stuck with crappy employees and they'll ultimately fail from within <-- Darwinian, indeed.

Is this an era of mutual respect then? We shall see. Of course, none of this will matter, come December 21st, because the world will end. Everyone, stick close to John Cusack!

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The Modern Office

March 19th, 2012

I'm not quiet sure why anyone would choose working in an office verses working at home, but they're out there. To me, working at home gives me the freedom to cart my boy back and forth, eat at home and work when the urge hits me (usually 9pm inspirations). Of course, maybe you do like the two hour commute that takes four hours out of your day, wears down your can and gives you an early coronary. Oh sure, I've heard people argue that, "well- you never leave the office." Sure, but even when I'm in the office, I'm at home and available to my family!

Hold on a moment, though- just so you know, I am not a workaholic! I can count the times that I have worked late into the night on one hand- for the year! That's mainly because I also work for a company that believes in a true work-life balance. That, my friends, is the key to working at home! I've heard horror stories of companies that allow working at home, in hopes of working their employees to an early grave. Their is no reason anyone should work more than 40 hours a week! Companies that work their employees 50, 60 or 80 hours a week for a flat salary don't value their employees and show a lack of good management and planning. It's the new sweat shop, complete with stock options, beer and fuse-ball!

illustration of a fun office behind prison bars

...and here's another thing- if you don't mind working in an office, beware the companies that have the shiny offices, complete with stocked beer fridge, fuss-ball table, video game room, masseuse, etc... Yeah! Awesome! They want to make sure you're comfortable and cool with being there because

you.

will.

never.

leave!

Ask what the average work week is like and how often they pull milestone sprints- i.e. all-nighters. Of course, maybe you're hungry and dig that lifestyle (you know- 23 and single), in which case, that place is for you! Don't get me wrong, if I am going to be in an office 16 hours a day, it really does help to have the perks, but I don't want to be in an office 16 hours a day.

Me? I love my family and I love my job! Don't make me choose between the two, boss-man/woman, and I won't disappoint you. In fact, I'll dazzle you with what I can do because I live a fulfilled life!

End of line...

Still, this really is a pretty cool office space!

a five story atrium with a three story slide and lounge above a couple tv studios

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