Dreaming About My Past Job

March 31, 2009 at 12:26 am | In Not the most useful posts... | Leave a Comment
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Every once in a while I dream about my past job. Well, it’s more of a nightmare than a dream. I quit my past job almost 4 years ago, but I still have dreams about it, I still dream that instead of quitting after a long vacation I decided to come back. I think the problem was that, in my previous job, I felt that I actually built something.

I loved my previous job and I hated it, I don’t regret leaving as I had no choice. I do miss the people, my friends, the country I was in, and the opportunities I would’ve had had I stayed.

My previous job was hell, but it left something (sweet) inside of me, and, in some ways, I think it made me a better manager and a better man.

Hitman the Movie Review: I want my 90 minutes back

March 29, 2009 at 5:27 am | In movie reviews | Leave a Comment
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Now I don’t consider myself dumb, nor does my family, nor does my friends, nor does the people I work with. I just didn’t get this movie. Every Friday I have some friends over to watch a movie and I chose, based on the twisted recommendation of the salesman, to buy the blu-ray version of Hitman.

What a waste of time and money. Here’s the movie in a nutshell:

Cons

- Crazy, weak, and incomprehensible plot.
- Director must’ve been on crack or something, because the tatoo of the woman in one scene was on one cheek, a few seconds later, it was on the other, and it remained there for the rest of the movie.
- The quality of the blu-ray sucks (but doesn’t suck as much as the Stargate movie)
- You don’t even care what’s going on, you just want the damn thing to get finished, because you’re not even watching, and the sound is creating a diversion from the much more interesting conversation you’re having with your friends.
- There’s only one person from that movie that I recognized, the Interpol detective (or whatever you want to call him).
- When I said that you just don’t care what’s going on, I really meant it!

Pros

- The movie is only 90 minutes.

Unless you’re 12 and you don’t care if the movie has no plot, and directed by someone probably your age, the I suggest you move along, there’s nothing for you here.

Google PageRank Disappears From All Websites, Except for Google

March 24, 2009 at 5:11 pm | In Not the most useful posts... | Leave a Comment
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I’ve noticed since this morning that the pagerank of every single website disappeared (showing no pagerank information), except for Google’s, who’s still there at a mighty 10.

Let’s see if websites (other than Google) will get their pagerank back. Well, someone at Google once said: “Webmasters are free to do whatever they wanted on their websites, and Google is free to do whatever it wants with its index”.

Mistakes in My Previous Job

March 2, 2009 at 7:13 pm | In Musings about Work | Leave a Comment
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I felt a bit nostalgic this weekend so I went through emails from my previous job. I had this folder, in outlook, which mainly contained all the emails that I used to dread back then (it’s funny cause I still dread those emails). I noticed several mistakes I made:

  • I was over-protective of my staff.
  • I never trusted my staff (no, this doesn’t conflict with point #1).
  • I was over-protective of my IT stock (stupid things such as blank CDs, blank DVDs, cameras, etc…)
  • I never compromised, instead, I took the lone-wolf approach (being a lone-wolf should never be the way to go for a good manager), and I isolated myself.
  • I played tricks on other managers that never hurt me before, but never helped me after (thus lost a lot of support).
  • I was always trying to step onto other people’s territory, instead of expanding mine (eventually I lost even my territory).

But then again, 2 things come to my mind:

  • If I knew then what I know now
  • If I’m back to the same job, the same position, with the same people, will I act any different?

I know for question #2 that I’ve changed, but I remember quite clearly that the environment was very harsh, so even though I’m sure I will act different, I’m not sure that I will become another person.

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