Posts tagged Human Resources
More Help Desk Humor (photo)
Jun 1st
I love the folks who work Enterprise Service Desks… or IT Help Desks, if you prefer. You have to admit that their work is thankless and mostly unrewarding. It does take a special kind of techie to put up with “users” all day long. It also results in a very dry sort of humor that I think, is a form of self protection!
Today, I found this funny picture on the web and thought that I would share it with you. Here’s to the help desk…
I hope that it gets your post holiday Tuesday off to a great start.
While you are chuckling maybe it is a good day to thank the “guys on the help desk” for all that they do to keep your organization up and running?
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for June 1, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
Image Credit: InnocentEnglish.com via Spastic Satan and her Spastic Existence
Information Technology Professional Continuing Learning Plans
Apr 28th
About once a year, I try to make a professional education plan for myself. I firmly believe in the value of continuing education and training and know that I have to own this challenge for my own professional growth.
I like to take a hard look at:
- Trends in the Information Technology industry
- Gaps in my current knowledge
- Emerging issues that I see coming up at work
- Larger social and culture based effects that I am unprepared for
- Industry media coverage trends
My initial list for this year looks like it includes:
- The overall aging of the population
- The rise of mobile, always connected Internet computing devices
- The growing popularity of Apple computing products
- The decline of write once, run anywhere software development
- Enterprise Management Systems
- Enterprise eLearning Systems
- Enterprise content management systems
- Transitioning Legacy Systems to Cloud Based ones.
- Cloud computing security and information assurance
- The end of the print era – the all digital content delivery period
- The rise of cloud computing from a consumer and user perspective.
Obviously, there is more than I can handle for one year on this list. It is essentially a first draft that will have to be cut down, but it is a starting point. Now I just need to come up with the training, education, and learning plans to accomplish it.
How do you design, execute, and manage your Information Technology Professional Continuing Learning program? What have you found works best? Can you share via our comments section?
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 28, 2010 by Scott Coughlin.
Image Credit: US Senate Site – Senator Webb
IT Poem of the Week!
Apr 17th
OK, today is another first for the IT Thought of the Day Blog! On Saturdays, I try very hard to honor the weekend by making my posts have a humorous bent. I have featured videos, jokes, stories, comics, music, and today, I offer you the IT Poem of the Week!
This week’s poem is a gift from All Free Jokes. You have to love that name! They have some jokes, photos, and funny stories. I hope that you both enjoy it and go to their site to see all the other funny IT jokes that they have.
Today’s poem is just as relevant to IT Pros as it is to average users. Every single computer user can appreciate this one!
The user’s reboot poem
Don’t you wish when life is bad
and things just don’t compute,
That all we really had to do
was stop and hit reboot?
Things would all turn out ok,
life could be so sweet
If we had those special keys
Ctrl, Alt, and Delete
Your boss is mad, your bills not paid,
your wife, well she’s just mute
Just stop and hit those wonderful keys
that make it all reboot
You’d like to have another job
but you fear living in the street?
You solve it all and start a new,
Ctrl, Alt, and Delete
What do you think? Do you know of any other good IT joke sites or artists? Do you have any IT humor to share? Have a great weekend.
That is my Information Technology Thought of the Day (ITTOD) for April 17, 2010. ©Scott Coughlin.
Poem / Joke Credit: All Free Jokes
Image Credit: photobucket
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