{"id":5297,"date":"2009-12-12T08:18:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T13:18:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2009\/12\/chapstackandloss.html"},"modified":"2009-12-12T08:18:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T13:18:05","slug":"chapstackandloss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albany.com\/hr\/2009\/12\/chapstackandloss\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Your Chapstick In The Ashtray (or how to not lose things over and over)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I used to lose my Chapstick and loose change all the time. I’d go maybe a week and it would disappear in the car (or worse be left in a pair of pants and go through the wash). Finally, I decided one day to just keep it in the ashtray of my car along with any loose change that came along, and lo and behold, I haven’t lost a Chapstick in a year.<\/p>\n

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What could this possibly have to do with HR? Well, what processes to do you have in place that keep you from being organized in the workplace? Is there a central area or way of doing things that can prevent you from losing important data time and time again?<\/div>\n
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It’s always important to have backups in places you will never lose them. I am a big believer in backing up in triplicate. Much like Chapstick, the USB drive has a way of walking away from me if I don’t keep it secured to something like my keys. I have found a much safer way of backing up is always emailing myself a copy of the file I have been working on, and also storing it on my FTP server and computer, so I have three copies.<\/div>\n
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Sure enough, this past semester, a few of my students fell victim to the lost USB drive, and had no backup anywhere else.<\/div>\n
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So if you don’t keep your Chapstick or USB drive in your ashtray, look for other ways to store your information that are safer and will result in less data loss.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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