"How's it going?"

It was my old manager, the one who mysteriously has repeatedly been allotted the responsibility for overseeing tech development on entire projects rather than just sub-projects, the one who lied to me back when I worked on his team and claimed that higher-ups wanted us to decrease our foosball play, the one who attempted to ( Read more... )

6:30 AM - My alarm goes off, I shut it down and go back to sleep ( Read more... )

Today is the glorious Company Picnic (actually, just my particular department). My manager applied not-too-subtle pressures to both myself and K. to show up. I told him I hate the sun, the outdoors, and almost added "my coworkers" to that list ( Read more... )

"People are really happy with the job you are doing here..."

My manager had summoned me from the midst of an IM conversation with dfrahlic. I was a little concerned when he shut the door behind me ( Read more... )

The pendulum swings back again.

I am being transfered temporarily to work on the project I always wanted to work on, but my manager always resisted letting me float as a free agent in the past ( Read more... )

"See what you could have been a part of?" C. asked, leaning against my office door after an impromptu demo of his interface ( Read more... )

"Hey... Ace!"

My manager caught me changing the label outside my office ( Read more... )

K. and I were taking a look at a website devoted to metatarsal stress fractures while chatting on AIM.

[K.]: "Dispense a surgical/trauma shoe to splint the foot ( Read more... )

In the future, think twice about having meetings in my office. I don't know how I became the defacto internet standards expert (possibly because I knew what they were when he asked me), but that certainly does not explain why a bunch of managers would have to gather in my minute, nigh pitch black office space for a conferance call. One sat on a ( Read more... )

Well, I just gave my presentation regarding my proposed UI changes. I was more than a little annoyed that my manager coopted control of the meeting, preventing me from delivering my introductory rant and forcing me to rather abruptly interrupt him so I might reassert alpha male status. As we departed, I was discussing the events with another ( Read more... )