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Still not Skippy. Still baffling my co-workers. Still catching up with the backlog.
Part 6
Part 8
Part 6
- Not allowed to yell at the helpdesk who expects an update by Monday morning when they have given a suggestion Friday evening.
- Reporting a webpage that has been wrongly classified by the net nanny to the helpdesk is more likely to be helpful in getting it unblocked than ranting about it on [off-topic] is.
- When reporting a wrongly classified webpage, maybe it's not necessary to be quite so sarcastically detailed.
- Desk bell app: Reasonable tool for calling an unruly room to order. Virtual vuvuzela app: maybe not so much.
- Set a backup alarm if working outside your sleep schedule.
- Should always double-check to make sure that the email has sent, if it's important.
- Candy as a peace offering is an honorable tradition.
- Always know where to find a compatible charger.
- Don't air workplace dirty laundry in front of the contractors.
- Never cause data to disappear without warning the other people who can see it first.
- When doing a user study, know who to call in case someone flakes.
- Schadenfreude is less sweet when you then have to solve the problems of the person who's getting fucked over, so maybe less rooting against them.
- Shouldn't adopt Steph's accidental term for an Excel file, which was "spreadshit".
- All explanations of Windows UI to Mac users ought to be tactful.
- It is not necessary for me to know whether I am in the bazaar or the cathedral today in order to perform my actual job function, but it helps with the dress code.
- These two things are not the same: "not committed feature", "noncommital feature".
- Not allowed to punch or swear at the guy who is excited to announce that version Kippered Shark of That Damn Program is coming out soon, but this particular bug he's commenting in has been dropped from the release.
- Unlike a cat, sometimes when I flail around it is not an "I totally meant to do that", but a "wow, I fucked that one up, let's do that again, but right this time."
- Telling a colleague "please close your vacuole" implies that your workplace may not have a multicellularity requirement.
- Probably not allowed a flamethrower at work.
- First name, email address, last name, is not an acceptable tab order.
- Any and all descriptions of "cloud" intended for a workplace audience should be free of any fucking profanity.
- Allowed to make a list of "lovable quirks" about internal tool, provided bugs get filed too.
- Due to workplace diversity, Chinese is not suitable for undetected swearing.
- One Infinite Loop: great street address for Apple, not so great scenario for the upload progress bar.
- If posting gifs of an application fail to the interwebs, make sure there's no internal information visible.
- There's a problem with reserving a table for "admins" in a tech company which has administrative assistants.
- No licking the white elephant presents.
- No matter what I fuck up, it's probably not on the level of getting the day wrong on the catering order.
- Not allowed to leave breakfast alone, lest it disappear.
- Not allowed to further investigate the "snow juice".
- Not allowed to join the employee-only parties, because of California contractor law. :(
- Important product meeting trumps card game, for the purposes of conference room booking.
- Reply-all and the phrases "with all due respect" and "bite me" are a poor combination for a work environment.
- No longer allowed to read off-topic list on four hours of sleep and no caffeine.
Part 8
