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Comment on What Trophy? by woogychuck

woogychuck — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:46:07 +0000

@Jen “Recognition, a certain amount of self determination, and ability to grow and learn are often given as top factors.”

Exactly, we’ve all been grown up to believe there’s more to life than making money. Now that Gen Y seems to actually embrace this, corporate management types seem to be freaking out.

All I have to say is that nice chairs, conferences, anc company lunches are all business expenses and as far as I know they are tax deductible. Giving an employee a $5k raise just costs the company more money and rarely improves retention or job satisfaction.

I have a friend that worked for Google and I con honestly say her paycheck never came up in every discussion about why she loved working there.

Comment on What Trophy? by Chip Griffin

Chip Griffin — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 16:04:54 +0000

Glad you appreciated Bagel Fridays! I agree that it is important to recognize employees regularly — as we always try to do at CustomScoop.

Comment on What Trophy? by Jen Zingsheim

Jen Zingsheim — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 14:33:48 +0000

Nice Scoop mention, thanks!–the Gen X’ers at Scoop also like the bagels. ;-)

Your observations are interesting and in line with what I would expect. The participant ribbons, as you so aptly put it, are recognized I think even in elementary school. Kids know.

The big executive bonuses are beyond my comprehension, and I think beyond most people’s. Money is rarely cited as a primary indicator of job satisfaction. Recognition, a certain amount of self determination, and ability to grow and learn are often given as top factors.

Comment on I’m a Piehead by Thomas Lewis

Thomas Lewis — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 15:15:40 +0000

Congratulations and glad to hear you will be working with Orchard. Looking forward to hanging with you at MIX10!

Comment on I’m a Piehead by Jim O'Neil

Jim O'Neil — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 05:19:42 +0000

Congratulations, Ian. Although I’m bummed that the Microsoft angle didn’t work out, I’m glad you and Kelley are going to still be around contributing to the geek community here (as well as Orchard!)

Comment on I’m a Piehead by woogychuck

woogychuck — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:31:53 +0000

Thanks Josh, I’m excited to work on Orchard too. I’ve been bugging Nathan Heskew via email to get up to speed.

Comment on I’m a Piehead by Joshua Allen

Joshua Allen — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 04:01:11 +0000

Congrats! I’ve enjoyed working with you on MIX stuff, and looking forward to Orchard.

Comment on Blame SQL by Anddrew

Anddrew — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:30:55 +0000

I maintain a site with a huge SQL database as its backbone, and was experiencing an extreme slowdown. After connecting to the server and finding nothing alarming, I took a look at the SQL tables and noticed they had not been optimized in a very long time, and that they only had one index on a field that was not used to select items. I added a couple index and optimized the table, and my load times went down by well over 50%.

Comment on Xenu Link Slueth by Michael Iantosca

Michael Iantosca — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:25:42 +0000

thanks for the tool recommendation - this tool is just what I was looking for

Comment on Techstars Update by woogychuck

woogychuck — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 16:14:22 +0000

@Dan
I’m glad I’m not the only one who sees the funding as a barrier.

Maybe I’ve been spending too much time with the open source crew, but it seems like any barrier to entry would reduce the amount of potential applicants. It would make sense for organizations like techstars to partner with angels or banks to help the founders stay afloat during the seed phase.