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My First Month at Microsoft

Posted by Thom in Business, Technology, Work Experiences on 2010/05/29

Somehow I made it through the gauntlet of interviews and Microsoft decided to hire me. Yea, I don’t believe it either. Even after a month, it still feels a little unreal each morning when I swipe my badge – I keep waiting for the light to turn red and for someone to come out and [...]

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Perceptions About Where You Work

Posted by Thom in Work Experiences on 2010/04/25

I recently joined a new company and it’s been interesting watching people’s reactions when they learn where I now work. Previously I’ve served in the Navy, worked for a children’s toy retailer, for an IT outsourcer and for a large company that made cell phones and software among other things. Now I work for Microsoft. (And [...]

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Return of the CLMs

Posted by Thom in Business, Work Experiences on 2010/03/26

As the saying goes, if something is working why stop doing it? The topic of CLMs, aka Career Limiting Moves, has generated over 10 times my normal mail volume, all from people telling me stories about CLMs they’ve seen or committed. We’ve all seen CLMs,  a lucky few of us have even made and survived CLMs, but apparently the unifying thread [...]

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Is Troubleshooting Becoming a Lost Art?

Posted by Thom in Education, Technology, Work Experiences on 2009/08/26

I recently helped solve an intermittent network/server problem for a client. This problem had been confounding the IT staff of this firm for quite a while and although this wasn’t why I was on site it was impacting my ability to complete my specific consulting  work. So I stepped in and started troubleshooting the problem in hopes [...]

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