There's nothing that brings people together quite like a common office enemy, while
chatting about another colleague's misfortune could save you from an embarrassing gaffe (like asking about your assistant's wife, only to have him sob on your shoulder about the pending divorce).
Not exact matches
On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my
colleague Jen Wieczner and I
chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock,
about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.
I was
chatting with my
colleague Nancy Marmolejo
about how she was getting so much traction of Facebook.
Whether it is the seemingly innocuous statement
about oneself to a
colleague, or an outright negative comment
about a sermon heard, or perhaps it is «harmlessly» talking
about a housemate or spouse while
chatting with friends, even if not actually saying anything, you know, that would cross the line into «gossip.»
Two of my favorite kid / food
colleagues, Sally Kuzemchak, RD of Real Mom Nutrition and Dr. Dina Rose of It's Not
About Nutrition, get together on a regular basis and
chat for 20 minutes... [Continue reading]
The leader and founder of Glorious Wave Ministry, Prophet Emmanuel Badu Kobi in a
chat with host of Anopa Kasapa on Kasapa FM, Fiifi Banson made shocking statements
about his
colleague men of God and some political personalities.
Former Rep. Joe DioGuardi stopped by the «Capital Tonight» studio this afternoon to update me on his bid to oust Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and also
chatted at length
about his former House
colleague Rep. Charlie Rangel, whom he says should resign — if only to spare his party, and himself, a prolonged ethics trial.
Hon. Muntaka in an earlier interview few months ago on Starr
Chat on Starr FM disclosed that he remains shocked over why his best friend and
colleague MP for Bawku, Mahama Ayariga, could spread such damning falsehood
about him.
Within the lab I bounced ideas off a
colleague and
chatted to other postdocs who were expressing similar feelings and doubts
about their future career and investigating such alternatives as patent work, investment banking, and technology transfer.
I was going
about my usual routine, teaching proper form, technique, and pushing everyone to their physical limit, when my friend and
colleague Aaron Ortega popped in for a
chat.
Later on, when I worked as a consultant pharmacist, I often loved to
chat with my
colleagues about medications and health.
Go too casual and you risk an awkward
chat with your manager
about appropriateness, while a formal outfit may look like you're over-dressing to your
colleagues.
I was
chatting with this respected
colleague about a project that I thought my 8th grade students would enjoy.
Don't be surprised if summer Skype
chats with
colleagues get you thinking
about connecting your students with faraway classrooms or remote experts.
Friends and
colleagues have raved
about the professional development opportunities it provides through ongoing events, groups, and
chats.
Four weeks ago I was sitting at Sharon Park Starbucks in Menlo Park
chatting with two
colleagues about the currently ongoing Connected Educator Month.
This could be following up on pitches (I pitch books mid-week, never Monday or Friday), chasing contracts and money, organizing promotional plans for a client's book with marketing and publicity,
chatting with my
colleagues about their work, forwarding reviews of client books to our foreign rights manager for her book fair catalogues, consulting with clients
about cover design, talking to clients
about new book ideas and many more things!
I knew dangerously little, but would also enjoy
chatting up my
colleagues about our «good» funds and our «bad» funds.
We started
chatting about the usual stuff like what assets to invest in, how to invest with limited capital, etc, when my
colleague said something that I found really interesting: «I'm willing to accept a lower rate of return, but I just don't want to lose money.»
Each episode of will feature an interview with a guest expert who will
chat about a specific investing topic, takeaway messages from the discussion, a segment called «Bad Investment Advice,» where Dan pokes fun at a specific bit of unhelpful commentary in the financial media, and an Ask the Spud segment where, with the help of Dan's PWL
colleague Amanda Dalziel, he answers investing questions from listeners and blog readers.
The «park» set up on Broadway on Friday was created by a group of architecture students, Green Builders at Columbia, to provide a bit of relief from vistas normally dominated by asphalt and vehicles, said Eleonora Encheva, a former club president who was there with several
colleagues to
chat with passersby
about open space, traffic and also water conservation.
Interruption Defence: It always happens: the lawyer is three sentences into a blog post, and the phone rings, or an email notice pops up, or a
colleague taps on the door to seek advice or just
chat about something.
I think we've struck a better balance after that initial introductory period but I think there are also risks there were if you're fully remote and therefore the only way to interact with
colleagues is through some sort of
chat portal, it can get too fun to just
chat with people rather than using it to communicate
about work and sometimes personal check in stuff to see how you're team is doing because you care
about them because you work with them, but to focus it on getting work done rather than just being fun and silly.
A roundtable discussion that was blogged
about, a session that included Bess Reynolds (author of The Challenges of E-books in Law Firm Libraries), and many
chats with vendors and
colleagues.
A great
chat with a
colleague in the economics department
about Judge Posner's work in Boyd (details here) help me see why that decision so troubles me.
In addition to connecting with friends and
colleagues, exploring the other vendors in the marketplace and
chatting with people
about law librarians and the value we bring to the legal community, I attended some of the excellent programming offered.
Although
chatting informally with a
colleague about your case may help point you in the right direction, a freelance lawyer who is familiar with all of the relevant facts and has read the applicable cases and statutes will be able to analyze the issues more closely.
I recently
chatted with a long - time
colleague who is a general counsel at British Telecom (Chris Fowler)
about this issue.
On this week's episode of Balancing The Ledger, Fortune's new show covering the future of finance, my
colleague Jen Wieczner and I
chatted with David Pakman, a partner at the venture capital firm Venrock,
about the hardline approach tech giants are taking against the nascent cryptocurrency industry.
Before we get to parking, I
chat with my
colleague Kevin Tofel
about building a connected chair that will share his presence with his IM software and the pitfalls of two new connected home hubs I installed over the weekend.