Office Rant
Mar. 6th, 2008 15:49![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mapsedgeDear Secretary,
I do not have warm and fuzzy feelings about you when you walk in my office and say, "I'm bored." I'm not your playmate. I'm certainly not your boss insofar as I do not have the authority to assign you work to do. I'm a guy who likes a good drive-by but otherwise prefers to be left alone to work.
If I don't stop typing, and I don't make eye contact, and I don't reply, that's saying something. Listen to it.
My door is the thing whose job you are at this moment doing, which is, filling the doorway. Please pull it to as you leave so it can do its job.
- Wm
Dear Data Guy,
Can we make it an S.O.P. that when you wipe a customer's inventory data for a website I'm working on, you inform me? That way, the next time this happens, I won't spend three fucking hours trying to track down a bug that isn't a bug, merely an absence of data.
If you're going to be an asshat, do it to your own deadlines, not mine.
Thanks,
- Wm
p.s. Lift the ring when you piss. This isn't a dorm or a frat house. Have some fucking standards, mm-kay?
I do not have warm and fuzzy feelings about you when you walk in my office and say, "I'm bored." I'm not your playmate. I'm certainly not your boss insofar as I do not have the authority to assign you work to do. I'm a guy who likes a good drive-by but otherwise prefers to be left alone to work.
If I don't stop typing, and I don't make eye contact, and I don't reply, that's saying something. Listen to it.
My door is the thing whose job you are at this moment doing, which is, filling the doorway. Please pull it to as you leave so it can do its job.
- Wm
Dear Data Guy,
Can we make it an S.O.P. that when you wipe a customer's inventory data for a website I'm working on, you inform me? That way, the next time this happens, I won't spend three fucking hours trying to track down a bug that isn't a bug, merely an absence of data.
If you're going to be an asshat, do it to your own deadlines, not mine.
Thanks,
- Wm
p.s. Lift the ring when you piss. This isn't a dorm or a frat house. Have some fucking standards, mm-kay?