https://heezy.blog/tags/career/Recent content in Career on heezy.blogHugoen-usWed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/scope-creep/Wed, 15 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/scope-creep/<blockquote> <p><strong>🚧 UNDER CONSTRUCTION 🚧</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>TODO: Write blog post about scope creep, and the various forms it takes, and its related cousins: unclear requirements, bad information, or repeated work.</p>https://heezy.blog/posts/vendor-relationships-and-free-gear/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/vendor-relationships-and-free-gear/<p>If you work in enterprise IT long enough, vendor sales reps will give you free hardware. They&rsquo;re not doing it out of kindness. They&rsquo;re doing it because getting their gear into your environment is how they close deals, and giving you a demo unit or letting you keep eval hardware costs them nothing compared to the support contracts and renewals they&rsquo;re chasing.</p>https://heezy.blog/posts/vendor-relationships-and-free-food/Mon, 13 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://heezy.blog/posts/vendor-relationships-and-free-food/<blockquote> <p><strong>🚧 UNDER CONSTRUCTION 🚧</strong></p> </blockquote> <p>If you&rsquo;ve ever been to Cisco Live, AWS re:Invent, or any vendor conference with a badge and a pulse, you know the drill. Free meals, free drinks, free swag, free everything. Vendors spend more on a single dinner at a steakhouse with six engineers than most people spend on groceries in a month. And that&rsquo;s before the expo hall opens and you&rsquo;re walking out with a suitcase full of t-shirts, water bottles, and a drone you won from spinning a wheel.</p>