Tag Archives: Work

Exit Interview by Web Form

September 29, 2006 – 9:23 am

What I didn’t put in the box marked “What would you do to make {Company X} better?”: “I would make the box where I get to type what I would do to make {Company X} better bigger”.

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Not promising

September 14, 2006 – 2:24 am

I was forwarded an email about a pay raise approval that has gone to my CEO, the blessed Larry. That in itself is scary enough (he’ll probably cover it by reaching down the back of his sofa). Fortunately my mail app made me feel a lot better: “Thunderbird thinks this email may be a scam.”

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Getting the point

June 22, 2005 – 6:25 pm

I’m a moderator on a Yahoo! Group! related to a software testing app. The Group! is files-only, meaning there’s no discussion, it’s just a place to keep handy documents, applets etc. that help when using the main application. Everyone who signs up has to read and agree to a very brief piece of text stating [...]

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The Brush-off

October 5, 2004 – 10:20 pm

My friend Yen got the following fortune cookie: There comes a time in man’s life when a yen is only Japanese money

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Life Averaging Newspaper

July 9, 2004 – 8:14 am

I got a memo at work yesterday about an article published in Germany’s leading Lebensmittelzeitung (grocery newspaper). Now I don’t know exactly how many Lebensmittelzeitungen there are in Germany, but that doesn’t matter, because this was published in the *leading* Lebensmittelzeitung. I know when I pick up a Lebensmittelzeitung, it’s always the leading Lebensmittelzeitung that [...]

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