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I once had an interview where someone quoted one of my blog posts at me. 'Oh, I wrote that', I said. It felt good.
by zwischenzug 5y ago
I once had an interview where someone quoted one of my blog posts at me. 'Oh, I wrote that', I said. It felt good.
- throwaway2037 5y agoCan you share your blog URL?
- zwischenzug 5y agohttps://zwischenzugs.com https://zwischenzugs.com
- jjkaczor 5y agoThanks... first article I see about "IT Transformation" is soooooooo painfully accurate!
- MandieD 5y agoAnd I thought it was fun when a colleague who publicly belittled me on a somewhat regular basis for scripting (“we're not programmers!”) triumphantly showed a blog post he’d found to solve a problem he was having. A blog post on my blog. In fairness to him, it was still on a domain that didn’t identify me at all, though the “About” page had my name on it. He then proceeded to launch up the chain of command to get me in trouble for publishing company secrets on said blog. I promised to only write it outside of work hours and not to directly copy any code (scripts, one-liners) I wrote at work, and that was the end of that. There were other less-antagonistic instances of others in this large company finding solutions on my blog, which says something about the value to the company of posting generic stuff like this on publicly-searchable platforms instead of an internal-only SharePoint or Confluence instance, and definitely instead of the PDFs our senior management insisted on for all documentation.