Category: Insights

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Always Great To Make Things Better

Very excited about some of the new technology AINEO is putting into place.  We have implemented mobility in our Tokyo as well as Seattle offices.  What’s that mean?

>Our engineers have an application on their phones that makes their smartphone (iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, iPad, Samsung Galaxy… whatever) a IP phone on our network. Very cool.

The other neat thing is we have been really tightening up our QuickerWeb.com service.  It really is the best.  Now it is time to get out the word!

We’ll be adding more protection for spam/malware/antivirus in the next few weeks once we finish technology testing and evaluations.

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Facebook and social networking

Many ask me of Facebook will continue. The answer is who knows. It is very clear that busy people don’t truly use it or spend time on it like they used to.
When I see people always logged into Facebook (online) I wonder, are they engaged with the people that surround them at that time?
Don’t let social networking rob you of time, money, or life. You’ve probably got 70-120 years to live- read a book, take a walk with the spouse, throw a ball around with you kids. Do let life pass you by

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Isn’t this the kind of person companies want to hire?

Fired for working through a lunch break?  I think HR departments are looking for this type of person.

Sharon Smiley had worked for 10 years as a receptionist and administrative assistant at a Chicago real estate company until she was fired for skipping lunch one day. After a two-year battle, an appeals court in Illinois has found that denial of her unemployment benefits was “clearly erroneous.”

Smiley, 48, punched out of work for lunch Jan. 28, 2010, but remained at her desk to finish a project assigned by a manager because she did not plan to eat that day, she said.

Smiley, who had passed her 10-year anniversary with the company more than a month before, said another manager told her it was time for her to go to lunch and step away from her desk, but she refused. That manager observed Smiley working on a spreadsheet on her computer, answering the phone and responding to questions by people who approached her desk, according to a filing from the appellate court of Illinois.

You can read the whole story here.  Sharon, send in your resume!