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?

I’m wearing a tie

I have an interview today. I’m “dressed up” — I’m wearing dress shoes, a white (short-sleeve) dress shirt, dress slacks, dress socks, and a tie. I’m not wearing a dress, but I’m still dressed up, especially compared to my usual jeans and a t-shirt. I’ve spoken to two coworkers so far today. Both of them

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Of COURSE it’s already filled

I’ve been looking at internal job listings. I just reread one that I had flagged over the weekend. I don’t know why it didn’t catch my eye the first time… A great deal of prototyping, dealing with multiple hardware architectures, managed and unmanaged cross machine communication… Seemed rather neat. I emailed the manager for an

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Attainment of goals…

This post wasn’t going to be a whiny short post, but I lost my temper walking through the kitchen to my computer. So for the last… three weeks? I’ve hit every goal at work. Today? I manage to work all day — aside from a conversation or two with friends — and accomplish NOTHING. I

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Deadlines

I have a deadline today. Given that I’ve missed the last two, I think I should make this one. Unfortunately, I have only one bug left. I don’t know that I can fix it. Why not? I wish it was lack of competency, or lack of skill, or lack of time. No, it’s lack of

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Work issues

1) A “Principal Development Lead” (aka parallel to my manager) responded to an external team (still within the company) in a very technical and architecture-related email thread with factually inaccurate information. It’s basically been decided that there wouldn’t be anything gained by correcting him, but… Apparently, my lead had already tried to have this conversation

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Grrr…

“Could you please not reply to *person*? I think the conversation is getting too technical, and I just want to make a few things clear.” “Okay.” (Insert false happy voice here)   It’s a bloody technical implementation issue that will affect other users of the same system! If it’s got a flaw, it should be

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Bigger doh

I came into work early in order to try to get some code checked in by noon today. It’s now 11:55pm, and I’m waiting on someone (ANYONE!) to review my code. Looks like it’s going to wait until tomorrow…