Co Worker

Daily Deal: Soyo Freestyler Wireless Headphones — The Soyo FreeStyler HS11 wireless headphones are dope pretty much any way you slice it. The first and most important bit is that I would describe the aesthetic as “presidential,” “fresh and clean,” or “straight G’d out.” They are wireless from 80-300(though we reported closer to 80-100) and work with the iPhone 3G. The HS11s are also compatible with Bluetooth capable cell phones and laptops. The Soyo Freestyler HS11s come with 5-6 hours of battery life, a built in microphone, and are Skype friendly. It’s a relief to know that I can now avoid the annoyance of shoving my... [Tags: amazon, amp, annoyance, battery life, cell phones]

Things to Remember When Calling Tech Support — This is Gord’s submission for the HP Magic Giveaway. Feel free to leave comments for this article as you see fit - your feedback is certainly welcomed! If you’d like to submit your own how-to, what-is, or top-five list, you can send it to me. Views and opinions of this writer are not necessarily my own: Have you ever worked in Tech Support? I have for the past 7 years. Now, I know that the highest suicide rate for a profession is air traffic controllers. I’m not so sure they took into account those of us who work the trenches... [Tags: adult manner, air traffic controllers, co worker, coworkers, email]

New Girl Facebook Video — Somehow I missed this video from a month ago of some employees making changes to their co-worker’s Facebook profile. Also, it appears that this video is made by the same people that made the Flagpole Sitta video. The video is an entertaining look at what it’d be like if everytime you changed your Facebook profile, it actually affected your personality in real life. Check out the video below!... [Tags: co worker, facebook, flagpole sitta video, new girl, personality]

NYC Holiday Office Parties Down 65% — Did you hear? The office party's been cut from the budget, according to a poll by FreshDirect & BizBash. This means that drunken coworker makeout, drunken coworker karaoke, and drunken telling your boss off will also be down to an all time low. Just how low? More than 65% of New York businesses are eliminating or scaling back on holiday parties this year, according to the survey of more than 200 event professionals in New York City. Of course, FreshDirect also has a solution to the problem: use their "At The Office" service to cut down on costs and party... [Tags: abc news, amp, boss, budget, catering company]

Kmart Worker Shot at Philadelphia Store — The worker, who was critically wounded, had intervened in an argument between a co-worker and her boyfriend.... [Tags: co worker, kmart, philadelphia]

Why I Love Twitter — Over the weekend, Tim O'Reilly wrote a post Why I Love Twitter where he talks about some of the things he finds compelling about Twitter. Here's my list Thanks to APIs, Everyone Experiences the Service Differently: Great social software fits itself into the lifestyle and personality of its users instead of the other way around. Whenever I talk to Twitter users I am surprised to learn how differently they use the service. For example, I primarily read and write to Twitter from a Vista sidebar gadget (Twadget) which to many of my coworkers seems weird. Every time I talk... [Tags: aggregators, cnn, coworker, coworkers, cutting room]

The 3-Day Cooling-Off Period: Myth and Reality — In 2001, I bought some magazine subscriptions from a couple of college students who were selling them door-to-door. I’d had my own miserable experiences trying to sell things to strangers, so I had a policy of buying from any kid who wanted to sell me something. I let the young man and young woman come into the house, and I listened to their pitch. I browsed through a glossy brochure that listed a bunch of magazines I didn’t really want or need. In the end, I agreed to purchase two subscriptions. But as I was filling out the forms, I... [Tags: co worker, cooling off period, costco, entertainment book, entertainment weekly]

Buy Nothing Day: Remember Jdimytai Damour — shoppers lining up at a Staples Store, via Gizmodo Today is Buy Nothing Day in the world outside the USA that didn't have a Thanksgiving holiday. Whereas yesterday I expressed some ambivalence about the holiday, concerned for those who worked in shops and those who sell ethical products, today I believe that we need a day of retail silence in memory of Jdimytai Damour, a Wal-Mart temp who was trampled to death in Valley Stream, NY by crazed shoppers. That "shopping" has come to this: "He was bum-rushed by 200 people," co-worker Jimmy Overby, 43, told the Daily News.... [Tags: ambivalence, bum, buy nothing day, co worker, memory]

Wal-Mart Employee Dies In Wild Black Friday Shopocalypse Stampede — LONG ISLAND, NY - The Valley Stream Wal-Mart store in Long Island, NY delivered shock to the waking world early on Black Friday when a 34-year-old temporary employee Jdimytai Damour of Queens, was knocked to ground and trampled to death after hundreds of shoppers smashed through the doors of the store on Friday morning.The tragic scene marked the start of America's annual Black Friday sales event, a shopocalypse designed to encourage violent materialism while raising credit card debt by tempting desperate shoppers with extreme sale prices and limited supplies offered at no other time during the holiday shopping season.... [Tags: abc news, black friday sales, box retailers, co worker, credit card debt]

DNA Mini Portraits — Have you run out of gift ideas for your loved ones this holiday season? Well, why not let DNA 11 help you out in this aspect? After all, we’re pretty sure that dad is sick and tired of receiving yet another belt-and-tie gift box, while mom might take offence at a new vacuum cleaner as if she doesn’t already have enough to do around the home already. DNA 11 has the perfect gift solution - something that will never cross the minds of most people - it has released its latest gift idea, the DNA Mini Portraits. This line of... [Tags: 20cm, 25cm, art technology, co founder, co worker]

Seagate's 'Computer Friends' Really Want You to Invest in 1.5 Terabytes of Storage [Video Geekouts] — Historically, nerd rap has been attached to the Aesop Rocks, Lupe Fiascos, and Kool Keiths of the world, but with this recent trend of viral-y, tech related hip hop vids (See: Large Hadron Rap), that classification is taking on an entirely new meaning altogether. Case in point, Seagate's "Computer Friends" video, which pairs a couple of ironically wiggeriffic cubical emcees together with their token black co-worker (for a ghetto pass, presumably) to spit a hot 16 about their beloved computers, and the need for more storage, specifically a 1.5TB HDD. However, I still think your money would be better spent... [Tags: aesop, anti virus, case in point, co worker, computer friends]

Stop The Hate — A reader writes: I must say that I’ve been disturbed by the gay community’s approach in reproving the Mormon Church’s for its financial role in the “Yes on 8” campaign.  Though I have little sympathy for the actions undertaken by the church to thwart marriage equality in California, I do not believe that picketing in front of its temples or boycotting the entire state of Utah will do much to combat its promotion of intolerance.  If anything, these sorts of actions will only escalate tension between conservative religious groups and our embattled community.  Yes, we must fight back, but we... [Tags: amity, antipathy, bigotry, co worker, conservative religious groups]

Web Service Uses Security Questions to Protect Information on Facebook — In order to read this blog you must first answer the following security question: What is the name of my family’s dog? A new web service, Friendbo, offers to pose a similar question — one which only you and select group of friends know — to anyone who seeks to view information you post on your blog, or on sites like Facebook and YouTube. The more people learn about you, the more access they’ll have. A group of faculty and students at the University of Washington is workingto demonstrate how the application can be used to protect data on Facebook... [Tags: awkward situations, blacklists, blog, coworker, debolt]

WSJ's tips for women in a male dominated industry — Industrial design has always been a particularly male dominated industry, we've discussed this before here at Core77. The Wall Street Journal has some tips for female professionals joining such lopsided environments that might be of some use to us grils. Here's a snippet, Make sure women are valued. Before joining a firm in a male-dominated industry, make sure the company values and promotes women. Check to see if women are represented on the board and in leadership positions at the company, says Betty Spence, president of the National Association for Female Executives, a women's business association in New York. During... [Tags: alpha co, alpha males, betty spence, co worker, company values]

Gretchen Rubin: Happiness Tip: Abandon Your Self-Control — I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. Join in -- no need to catch up, just jump in right now. One challenge about keeping my happiness-project resolutions is that it takes a lot of self-control. "No nagging," "No fake food," "Exercise better," "Sing in the morning"...so many of my resolutions require me to control myself. Relying on will power is very hard - so whenever possible, I abandon it. Instead of resisting temptation, I avoid it entirely. Studies indicate that we have... [Tags: abstinence, alarm clock, co worker, credit card debt, dessert]

I'm Not One Of Those 'Love Thy Neighbor' Christians — One of those moments when the Onion gets to the truth in ways no serious outlet could:Now, granted, there are some Christians on the lunatic fringe who take their beliefs a little too far. Take my coworker Karen, for example. She's way off the deep end when it comes to religion: going down to the homeless shelter to volunteer once a month, donating money to the poor, visiting elderly shut-ins with the Meals on Wheels program—you name it! But believe me, we're not all that way. The people in my church, for the most part, are perfectly ordinary Americans like... [Tags: abomination, agony, christians, christmas easter, coworker]

The week that just wasn't funny [Recap] — We make fun of everything here, even death. But it's still too soon to laugh over the three SiPort employees gunned down by a coworker, or the misguided teenager who overdosed live on Justin.tv. That said, next week will be open season on the newest little Googler and Barack Obama's Warcraft-addicted policymaker. Life goes on, and we have a job to do. (Photo by acaben).... [Tags: barack obama, coworker, googler, job, justin tv]

A former co-worker of mine was a recent university graduate who transferred to another division of my company. During the time that I worked with her, I valued her contributions and spoke of her with the highest regard. Obviously I was misguided, if this Dark Reading post is accurate. She was a threat to me and all that my company stood for.During the past two weeks, IT security managers have been getting a new warning that turns the old '60s hippie slogan -- "Never trust anyone over 30" -- upside down. The new message: Twenty-somethings are putting the corporate network... [Tags: accenture, berland, co worker, data leakage, generation y]

Gretchen Rubin: The Balanced Life: Abandon Your Self-Control. — I'm working on my Happiness Project, and you could have one, too! Everyone's project will look different, but it's the rare person who can't benefit. Join in -- no need to catch up, just jump in right now. One challenge about keeping my happiness-project resolutions is that it takes a lot of self-control. "No nagging," "No fake food," "Exercise better," "Sing in the morning"...so many of my resolutions require me to control myself. Relying on will power is very hard - so whenever possible, I abandon it. Instead of resisting temptation, I avoid it entirely. Studies indicate that we have... [Tags: abstinence, alarm clock, balanced life, co worker, credit card debt]

When People Get Their Tech Facts Mixed Up… — Several days ago, Ryan and I were at a mall and we happened to overhear a conversation that went something like this: Girl 1: “Hey, have you seen the new gPhone? It’s Apple’s new iPhone!” Girl 2: “Cool!” How the conversation finished, we’re not sure because we continued to walk by. We looked at each other and kinda laughed at the thought that someone believed that the gPhone was an iPhone. So often I hear people say off-the-wall things like that, or they get their tech facts all goofed up. I’m sure you’ve found yourself in situations like that as... [Tags: apple, co worker, experiences, fools, girl 2]