Time Tracking in Corporate America

Note: This post was written on 10.06.2024 and never posted. I’ve been going through drafts for each blog in the hippiegrrl media universe and choosing to hit post to get things moving again. Even though this is a…

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Career Obliteration

Have you ever felt like your career is being obliterated? Or that it has slowly been chipped away at until you are in a space where you no longer have options? This morning I realized that this is…

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Organic Downsizing Part Two

Last year, at this time, I published a piece with password protection that discussed the concept of organic downsizing in the workplace. This morning, I decided to open up that post to public viewing and write this second…

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Working from Home

Hello friend. If you are reading this, you are probably taking a short break from your work from home experience to reset your brain. The reason I know that you are working from home is because a good…

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Gen Xers and Millennials in the workplace

I remember a time when I was the youngest person in the office. Back in the late 90s, when I was first starting out in the workforce, I had big ideas about my future and how I envisioned…

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Organic Downsizing

As you know, I work for a software company in Buffalo, NY. Now that I live somewhere else, they have allowed me to work remotely, which was kind of them. That, however, is where the kindness ends. My…

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The Robot Returns

April – that was the last time that I wrote a piece for this site. That is both sad and not surprising. I get all jazzed to start a new project and then I go crazy the first…

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This Week in Tech: Money

After our company was taken over by the corporate overlords, a compensation review was done to determine whether or not the workers were making the right amounts of money. Of course, this was done with a bent toward…

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This Week In Tech: Don’t Get Comfortable

On Wednesday, we had a company meeting. To say that the days leading up to this meeting were tense is an understatement. The building was unusually quiet as if everyone was just keeping their heads down and trying to…

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A Misogynist in the C-Level Suite

Some men do not like women. This is just a simple fact. Maybe they were scorned by an ex-lover or their mother was abusive or they are secretly in the closet. There are many reasons why some men…

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