It seems like…
Hotel rooms look alike no matter where you go.
Tag: Work
Travelling again
Oh the boredom. As my current project is getting ready to go on vacation, I am putting in one last trip to Poland to start another sprint. We have reached sprint 8 and we can start to see the end. Of course we still have a lot of work in front of us before we release to production, but the main chunks of code are close to being done. Having travelled a fair the last couple of years, I try to remember why I thought this would be so cool to do back in college. In all honesty, it doesn’t...
How I work
Now, I know I am not a unique little snowflake in the way that I normally do my work, but I saw an interesting blog post Mikkel Hippe from Tradeshift, that made me think about how I work. TRadeshift is a fierce competitor of ours, but that should not keep me from pointing out things that I agree with now should it? The blog post is basically about the advantages of remote workers. I am not a remote worker as such, but since most of my team is located in Manila, and since I sometimes have to work out from...
Does work really have to suck?
Before I get going on my rant here, let me just point out that I am not bashing anybody here, not even my own employer. And if I am bashing anyone, it is “the man” who in this case is synonymous with big faceless corporations here everything is systemized and all actions are controlled by over-zealous managers and time sheet keepers. So anyway, I was reading this article on my iPad earlier, which talked about why people in Seattle all of a sudden wanted to work for Amazon again. Amazon has been a cornerstone in Seattle for more than 15...