Archive for May, 2009
The Insult that is Minimum Wage
Posted by Thom in Business, Work Experiences on 2009/05/26
social_prefix = ”; social_title = ‘The Insult that is Minimum Wage’; social_url = ‘http://www.thommitchell.com/2009/05/26/the-insult-that-is-minimum-wage/’; As the old joke goes “Minimum Wage means that if they could pay you less, they would”. Ba-Da-Bing! A truer statement hasn’t been spoken about pay. I’ve worked my share of jobs for minimum wage – construction laborer, dishwasher, waiter and [...]
Individual Recognition For Team Efforts
It’s graduation season once again. Almost everyone has either sat in a graduation audience or has earned the privilege to be a graduate of some institution somewhere be it high school or college, frequently both. Every ceremony has the requisite program that everyone picks up, so they have something to read while waiting, containing the names of those who [...]
Typing, an underappreciated skill
Posted by Thom in Business, Technology, Work Experiences on 2009/05/19
For high school kids in honors classes typing isn’t usually on the syllabus, but my mom insisted I know how to type. This is why I found myself in a room with 25 manual typewriters, 21 girls, 3 other guys and one very cranky teacher whom I’ll call Mrs X. Even though the PC revolution [...]
Jack of All Trades and Master of ……Quite a Few
Posted by Thom in Business, Networking, Work Experiences on 2009/05/12
A recent Blog entry by Steven DiMaio struck home for me personally because I have a wide variety of skill sets and a large number of work experiences. This is usually a very good thing because I can usually make connections between disparate tasks and industries striking to the heart of issue quickly providing resolution to [...]
5 signs you are ready to outsource
Posted by Thom in Business, Outsourcing on 2009/05/05
Large companies have been outsourcing business and IT functions for quite some time but small and medium sized companies have been much slower to embrace the opportunities and benefits that outsourcing can bring. It’s not just the classic business or IT functions like payroll or call-centers that have been ripe for quite some time but the newer software as a [...]
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