Category Archives: Office

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Work. It’s what I do. It’s what brought about that “Office Monkey” thing (that’s a LONG story. Okay, a reasonably short one, but still.). I work in an Office, so it makes sense to me, okay, bub?

Inconceivable!

I just went to clean off my white board (dry erase). It has notes from yesterday’s laborious explanation of the under-the-covers functioning of CoCreateInstance, so that my intern would hopefully be able to solve his own problem without my help (it didn’t). I picked up the same eraser I used to wipe off the same

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Review

I’m filling out my annual review form at work. We have to fill it out by EOD today, according to management, so they can have “calibration meetings.” They have to be sure not to give us a compliment unless everyone else agrees I deserve that compliment… (The real story is even more sordid. Stack ranking,

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