7 habits of highly annoying travelers

Posted on March 12, 2010. Filed under: complaining | Tags: , , , |

A while back, I wrote a post about annoying people at work. Just lately, much of my work has involved traveling so I thought I’d draw that theme out again, for a couple of reasons: I like and need to vent about the stupid things people do; and I’d like to provide a cautionary message [...]

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7 habits of highly annoying people at work

Posted on September 16, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

Different personalities in the workplace are a given and you just need to learn to work with them. But regardless of personality, there are some things people do (yes, probably even me – though I’d like to think I don’t) that are just plain annoying and often create far more work and frustration than necessary. [...]

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Do we really need higher education?

Posted on March 3, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , |

You can hardly avoid the stories in the news about the cost of college skyrocketing and more and more students losing out on a higher education because of those high costs. Frankly, I’m disgusted every time I see or read these stories. College should not be a ‘luxury’ that only the rich can afford. It [...]

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Keeping ‘em happy, even when they’re gone

Posted on January 29, 2009. Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: , , , |

As I’ve noted before, we live in a networked and networking world. In fact, as “Net Gen-ers” and organizations who employ them, we can’t avoid it. Beth Kanter recently put together an excellent review of some research that suggests that “Digital immersion may [encourage] a new form of intelligence…sharing content and interacting with others… heightens intelligence [...]

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