Business

Employees Selling Yourself

Selling Yourself

by eran 08.22.2010 Business

I thought I would write a few thoughts about employment. It’s easy to forget that as an employee your are a commodity easily bought sold or traded.  An employee can be upgraded downgraded or completely replaced.  Sometimes it’s easy to forget that we are replaceable.  I have been laid off five different times and here [...]

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Comcast Love/Hate

Comcast: Its a love/hate… mostly just hate.

by eran 07.07.2010 My Rants

I have a love hate relationship with my internet service provider. I love one thing… the speed but hate almost everything else. Here are a list of things I would change if I were magically put in charge at Comcast. Really I need to reboot my modem weekly? Every week without fail I get to [...]

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Delta Airlines Destroys Bike Used for Charity and Refuses to Pay For It

Delta Airlines Destroys A Bike Used for Charity and Fails to Refund Shipping Charges

by eran 06.09.2010 Anti-Hero

Delta Airlines recently Destroyed a Triathelete’s bike during transit. Triathelete James Lawrence is doing 20 triathons in 30 weeks to raise money for drought relief in Kenya. While traveling back from a triathlon in Hawaii his expensive custom bike was destroyed by Delta Airlines after paying $200 to check it. Delta is refusing to pay for the damage or even return the check baggage fee.

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Is Apple the Bully?

Apple Becomes The Bully: Raids Journalist’s Home

by eran 04.29.2010 Business

What the hell has happened to Apple? Steve Jobs and Apple  are acting like the Gestapo. The background story in short… An Apple engineer looses the next-gen iPhone prototype at a bar.  Some one finds it and and attempts to return it to Apple. Apple doesn’t realize its missing or whatever.  The finder after realizing [...]

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15 Basic Microsoft Word Skills Every Employee Must Have

Microsoft Word Skills the Average Worker Should Have According to the IT Guy

by eran 02.24.2010 Business

A few weeks back I posted the Top 10 Computer Skills the Average Worker Should Have According to the IT Guy.  Today I would like to add some skills that people need to know using Microsoft Word. People often are unsure what Word skills they will need for a general office type of job. Applicants [...]

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Busted on Live National TV for Surfing Porn

Busted For Surfing Porn on Live TV.

by eran 02.04.2010 Business

Being an IT person I have seen a lot of disturbing things people have viewed at work while surfing the internet. I have seen porn. I have discovered people’s sexual orientation. I have seen it all. Macquarie Private Wealth adviser David Kiely was caught on live television looking at semi-nude pictures of Australian model Miranda [...]

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Computer Skills for Average Workers

Top 10 Computer Skills the Average Worker Should Have According to the IT Guy

by eran 01.12.2010 Business

As an IT professional I see all kinds of employees who have little or no computer skills. It’s the 21st century and every job in my company requires a computer and software. I am constantly amazed at the ignorance to computers my users have. I have thus decided to post my top 10 computer must [...]

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Feelings, Failure and Finding Happiness Oprah's advice

Feelings, Failure and Finding Happiness

by eran 01.09.2010 Business

Today I was reading some of the tweets of people I follow. Brian Wong tweeted ” Must watch – Steve Jobs: How to live before you die | Video on TED.com” I was wondering if it was a new address by Steve Jobs. I have been searching for some career motivations and another one of [...]

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Golden Rentals Leaves Customers Stranded

Golden Rentals Snowmobiles

by eran 11.17.2009 customer service

The internet became the great equalizer of men when it became a medium for the customer to exact justice upon a particularly bad experience. Every year I am reminded of a bad snowmobile rental experience.  Recently I have received over 20 emails asking me about Golden Rentals in Murray, Utah.  I should have saved them all to [...]

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DishNetwork Customer Service Needs Improvement

by eran 10.27.2009 Business

Dishnetwork customer service fail.

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