I've been thinking about taking the plunge into more college classes because, why not? I believe the day I stop learning things is the day I'm getting embalmed for my...
When is work a four-letter word? When I actually refer to it as "work" and not my job. When I was a kid, my mother taught me never to say...
When I come into work, I double-check all my SQL databases and jobs, fix any failures, then catch up on emails and respond to my customers. After all this, I...
So a woman I know, we'll call her Jane, works an IT job in an environment similar to mine. Her two coworkers are male and her boss is male. While...
Well, here's an interesting piece of news from the tech world: "The best city for women in tech, according to the research, is Washington, D.C. In the nation's capital, about...
In today’s economy, job hunting is difficult at best. Things are so bad that people unable to find employment after a year plus of searching have stopped looking. This behavior,...
It’s early in the morning (or late at night) when Vital Process A fails. Maybe it errors out. Maybe it didn’t start in the first place. Regardless of the reason,...
As I was perusing the news yesterday, I came across an article about a pastor who tried to stiff a waitress on a tip by writing “I give God 10%,...
Inspired by various work environments (past and present), and the people who populated them: Reasons why everyone should work from home! I have a hangnail. It hurts. “Work” is a...
Maybe I just wasn’t paying attention, but it seems there has been a recent (within the past decade) rise in the number of reported workplace violence incidents. Am I imagining...
Brandie Tarvin is an author and tie-in writer and a copy editor. In addition to her original fiction, she has written SQL Server articles, Shadowrun: The Role Playing Game sourcebook material and fiction as well as a piece for Hasbro’s Transformers. She currently lives in Florida with her family and is owned by two cats.
