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The Silver Lining
“Every cloud has a silver lining” – various Chalk this one up to “another time when Dave forgot to practice what he preaches.” It happens more often than I care to admit. Advice that I give to people that makes perfect sense when I tell it to someone else is exactly what I forget to…
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Don’t Be That Guy: Overblown Sense of Entitlement Guy
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank “The world has moved on.” – Stephen King, The Dark Tower series “Either way, I don’t give a damn what you think you’re entitled to.” – Colonel Nathan Jessep in “A Few Good Men” There are…
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Don’t Be That Guy – The Angry System Administrator
Yet again, I can almost hear you screaming through the very cabling that makes up the internet: “Dave…seriously…have you nothing better to do than sit around and write these things?” 1. Depending on the day…”no, not really”. 2. More importantly, this one’s not mine. This one comes to us courtesy of Chris Martello, who some…
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Feeding off the Unemployed Guy
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank To say that the state of business and economy in Metro Detroit is in peril is an understatement to say the least. Never have I seen such a mass of people without work in this town,…
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Death By Assumption: Sabotaging Your Job Search in 5 Easy Steps
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. “Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make — bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake — if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in…
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Don’t Be That Guy – Distracted Guy
“If I show up at your door, chances are you did something to bring me there.” – Martin Blank, Grosse Pointe Blank. This blog hit me like a ton of bricks this past weekend. I was playing baseball with my 7-year old daughter, and while we were out happily having a pleasant Father-Daughter moment tossing…
