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Showing posts with label working. Show all posts
Showing posts with label working. Show all posts
Tuesday, August 11, 2026

When patient care be under attack? What do you do? Stand up, fight back!

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God knows, there are plenty of problems with health care in this country - access, outcomes, etc. When my much beloved primary care physicia...
Wednesday, July 01, 2026

Spies are everywhere. (So glad I'm out of the fray.)

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A few weeks ago, my sister Trish retired. A week before her big day, she turned 67. Since she always had a part-time job in high school, and...
Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Data Labelers Unite! (LFG!)

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It will come as no surprise to anyone that AI, along with its tremendous potential to (along with the occasional good thing) wreck the envir...
Wednesday, April 08, 2026

Yes, chef? Maybe not for much longer

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When I was young, I logged a lot of hours as a waitress. None of those hours were logged in any place fancy: no executive chefs, no sous che...
Wednesday, September 24, 2025

WeStillWork

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Last December I turned 75 and finally decided to pack it in, workwise.  For the prior few years, I hadn't been doing all that much work,...
Thursday, September 18, 2025

Tech work just ain't what it used to be

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I never worked for one of those perk-laden tech companies. Oh, some of them were perky enough to have video games in the kitchen and beer ba...
Thursday, October 17, 2024

Worst team-building ever

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Offsites were one thing. A day away from the usual office whatever. So what if all anyone came away with was a slew of rolled up flipchart p...
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Tuesday, October 15, 2024

I couldn't have done this

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When I was in college, I spent my summers waitressing. After college, but before "real life" clicked in, I waitressed for a couple...
Thursday, June 20, 2024

And I thought driving to Lowell was a supercommute

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My career in technology product marketing was split between companies in Cambridge, where I could commute via public transpo, and companies ...
Thursday, February 01, 2024

The heart is a lonely worker

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There are plenty of reasons to envy the younger generation. Most of these reasons fall under the umbrella of "they have their entire li...
Tuesday, January 16, 2024

The man in the gray flannel suit

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Over the course of my career, I saw the corporate dress code go from button-downed/buttoned up to pretty much anything goes. This was, of co...
Tuesday, January 02, 2024

If the Commonwealth of Massachusetts thinks it's a good idea...

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The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is exploring a bill that would "give a tax credit to businesses in the state that join a pilot progra...
Tuesday, June 20, 2023

Back to the workplace

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Remote work has been around for a good long time, and even prior to covid many companies were allowing working from home (WFH) for all of th...