There's not enough bitching

[Rezantis]

Oh noes.  What is the FFML up to these days?

[Brian]

Dunno, I quit.

[Arakawa]

I receive enough sensitive personal confidences from people, without volunteering much (if any) information about myself in return, that some days I wind up feeling like some kind of priest taking confession.

Why? I don't even strike myself as that trustworthy.

[Rezantis]

without volunteering much (if any) information about myself in return

Which from a different perspective might be 'shutting up and listening'. :)

[Iron Dragoon]

without volunteering much (if any) information about myself in return

Which from a different perspective might be 'shutting up and listening'. :)

It's probably exactly this. I've found that happening to me on occasion, and when I asked 'why me?' the response is generally, 'you're really good at listening, and just letting people talk their way through things, and have good advice.'

It's about trust-worthiness all the time. Sometimes, it's just the ability to shut up and listen. Or let people talk without showing frustration at having your time spent on their BS =p

[Yuthirin]

I must be the only person I know who can actually just hold my breath to make hiccups go away.

I can do this!

[Brian]

We must be from the same ninja clan!  Separated at birth!

[Yuthirin]

We must be from the same ninja clan!  Separated at birth!

We practice the ancient art of the Brofist.

[Brian]

Meeting about 'the company's future' from the Product Manager who long ago tried to accuse me of losing a 7,000$ drive (he had loaned it out himself).  It was basically a 40 minute long sales pitch about how we should remain positive despite the lack of raises, or any promising future leads.  In the meeting, the senior tester (my step-father) asked:

"So, we're going to be going multiple quarters without being able to ship.  What's our plan for this?  We're not looking for investors, so how is the board going to make sure we're still solvent and will be profitable after this?"

His answer:

"That's a concern.  We've learned from our mistakes, and our technology is going to be great."  And then back into the blurring sales pitch nonsense I tuned out.  A few other pertinent questions, along with a generous heap of scorn on the results of our past efforts.  "Who cares about that tech?  It's worthless.  This is what we need to focus on."

Not great.  Meeting runs long, by the time we're released for the free lunch it's all gone.  It's thai, though, so I don't view it as a loss.

Some talk between the co-workers, it turns out that the new 'manager' (not actually a manager, just has a manager title for prestige) has been pushing for one of my co-workers (the one who has a crush on me >_>;) to get fired.

An all around bad day on many fronts, confirming most of my negative suspicions about the future of the company, and losing one of the co-workers I commiserated with the most.


Also, another superior demanded a test be run on all disks that I'd been running tests on over the last two months -- guaranteeing I will not make our ship date on the product to qualify.  A different superior wants me to pore through many months of test data to make a consolidated document giving an overview of different data sets (seriously, we should have someone to do this; I need to test and pointlessly move things around the lab for the 'manager'), and....

I'm so apathetic to the situation.  I'm just padding out my resume and adding skills to it.  If I didn't already buy in on the stock options (around 30% vested) and really want to get solid years on my resume, I'd be looking for other work already.  I am so indifferent to the actual results of my work I should probably be ashamed.

[Arakawa]

I am so indifferent to the actual results of my work I should probably be ashamed.

Maybe, but when you do wind up looking for a different job, instead of "indifferent", just say you were "professional" and you can pretend to be proud of it instead. :-P

That'll be the Art of the Resume, right there.

[Anastasia]

I spent some time in the kitchen cooking a big-ass dinner. Guess what happens just as I'm finishing? Someone comes home with pizza.

Sighfuckle.

[Merc]

Pizza makes good breakfast. Just toss that into the fridge and eat your dinner!

[Brian]

Was making cutlets and dipped a (batter-coated) finger into the oil.  Fried myself up nice and crispy. :\

[Yuthirin]

ow ow ow OW

[Brian]

My hip flask is already leaking....