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People don’t quit organizations; People leave bad managers!!

04.30.06

Are you fed up with your manager, boss, supervisor or your company rules?!
Do you agree with a big chunk of people that a bad boss is the main reason of why an employee quit his job looking for another anonymous chance, a chance which may hold inside another worse situation, who knows?

Most people wait for their promotion as to breathe & exhale widely when they reach management level in their careers because they would no longer report to a small manager any more. A manager reports to a director or a VP in most corporate structures. Let’s wish they don’t convert either to a bad personality & start a bad attitude against their staff underneath their responsibility.

I am currently working as a Senior Network Engineer and from my personal experience in Dubai since year 2000, I have seen many cases where employees quit their jobs as to change their company for a less pay only to get rid of their bad boss, who made his life a hell.

Another case where a bad boss refused to accept someone’s resignation because he knew that he has got quad the salary offer from another company, although that manager knows that he is underestimated in his current pay and position & that he deserves the new position. Finally, he ruined the life of my friend & he fired him after letting that golden chance goes from him, ending him with leaving Dubai and going back to Jordan. The bad thing here is that this manager is from Jordan also & he knows that the victim employee is the only family member who works & that he is responsible financially about his brothers & parents.

For me, thank god, I am currently not facing any difficulties of that kind anymore as the atmosphere in my department is warm & friendly. I will not write about my personal past experiences as everybody should turn the page with optimism, they werent that bad but we live and see. To be frankly, I cannot handle a bad boss for 5 days -didn’t want to say 5 minutes or seconds- after raising my patience level to 1000%. :)

Conclusion, I think whatever person is happy or not with his current boss or company atmosphere, the best for someone is to be his own boss. This subject is fragile. Why? Because it needs to be calculated very well. I still remember a story I heard from one Multinational IT Director here in Dubai, telling me about his friend, who was a regional manager and planned to have his own business in Amman. The man resigned from his position and invested all his savings & was finally in the street after 1 year walking like a hopeless, even without his car which he sold it. He lost his position, his money & he failed. That is an exception of course, I wish everybody the success in their career or self employment.

The video below shows someone’s idea of punishment for his bad boss!!

Funny Cartoons!

04.19.06

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I am positive this could happen to many people :) Female voice can be misleading sometimes

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Sadly, I think this is today’s trend. Nowadays, people like to hear what they want rather than what they should.

headshaving.jpgBe careful about what you read online, we should think twice before we approve anything we read on the internet. Since 1998, I think I’ve received “the hotmail users Hoax” email for more than 100 times & it is obviously still being forwarded up until now. (If you don’t forward the email to 15 of your contacts, your hotmail account will be deleted :))

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Nothing is more annoying than such sales agents.

The Ultimate “Winning Eleven” PlayStation Tournament!

04.10.06

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For those of you who aren’t quite Video Game fans, “Winning Eleven” is a popular soccer video game for Sony’s Playstation 2, that is widely played in Jordan. Just when you thought that video games hype that was caused by Counter Strike in Jordan the last few years was over, while I might be exaggerating about it, comes this “Winning Eleven” tournament sponsored by Play 99.6 held in Marriott Hotel sometime soon I guess :/ (the tournament registration page doesn’t mention neither a date or time) So anyways, if you think you’re a good Winning Eleven player, then you shouldn’t think twice about joining up this competetion, I know I wouldn’t but I’m a fifa fan and Winning Eleven just won’t do it for me. :)

Now all you need to do to is find a good Winning Eleven friend to play on your team, then follow this link to Play 99.6’s website and submit your information.

Windows Live Mail

04.06.06

Finally I received my Window Live Mail Beta invitation, I’d been wanting to try Windows Live Mail for a while now. I signed up for beta over a month ago. Yesterday, finally, I received an invite. Cool.

What are my first thoughts? It’s pretty good. Why only “Pretty Good?” It’s still just e-mail - nothing revolutionary. Windows Live Mail looks like a consumer version of Outlook Web Access, a web based e-mail application that’s part of Microsoft Exchange. There’s a lot in Windows Live Mail that should be standard with any web based e-mail application. However, I should also say that it’s a much more powerful platform than Hotmail. Faster and the interface is much better, even uploading the attachments is faster which is nice. Microsoft has previously announced that the Live Mail will be replacing Hotmail as soon as they finish all testing.

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04.05.06

Today 5th April 2006, at exactly 1am, 2minutes and 3 seconds, the date will look like this, 01:02:03 04-05-06 (Considering American date format), and that is 1 2 3 4 5 6 line up of numbers. You may ask, so what?? I don’t know, I just found it interesting and worth sharing.
It might even make you think about those things that happen once in a lifetime.

Good Evening Everybody :)