TR Community scoreboard for October 8, 2010 - Is work a buzz kill?

The most active discussion thread this past week was instigated by Toni Bowers, when she shared information about Chrysler workers who were fired for drinking and smoking marijuana during their lunch break. Find out what other posts and members were hot on the boards.

Top 5 discussion threads:

1. Drinking on the job: Firings at Chrysler (Toni Bowers)
2. 20 off-the-wall emails from the technically clueless (Bill Detwiler)
3. Productivity shouldn’t be the goal in motivating staff (Toni Bowers)
4. The new rule: Technology must be self-evident (Jason Hiner)
5. Poll: After a year in the wild are you ready to deploy Windows 7? (Mark Kaelin)
6. Catch Up Cafe (TR member PurpleSkys)

TR members with the most total posts on the forums

1. santeewelding (126 posts)
2. PurpleSkys (116 posts)
3. NexS (85 posts)
4. AnsuGisalas (81 posts)
5. Oz_Media and seanferd (80 posts)

TR members with the most Thumbs for answering Questions

1. TobiF (5 thumbs)
2. robo_dev (5 thumbs)
3. seanferd (4 thumbs)
4. OH Smeg (3 thumbs)
5. CG IT (3 thumbs)
6. wizard57m (3 thumbs)

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• Do you have time to fix your own PC?
• Hal 9000 highlights TechRepublic Questions of the Week - October 4, 2010
• TechRepublic swag from around the world
• TR Member pet pics
• TR Member tattoo pics
• TR Member costume pics
• TR member Garden Club gallery

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