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In Case of Emergency…
Work screed alert: If my writing about work at a large Japanese electronics company doesn’t tickle your fancy, please take a minute to bite me (I’m tired of e-mails dictating…
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Q4 Report 2004
Today is the last day of another fiscal year here. This is the first non-work related thing I have written this week. I am in spreadsheet mode and have no…
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Vampire Killer
It is just past ten o’ clock and I am stewing in my own fumes. I ate a plate of spicy Thai pork for breakfast and it is now overly…
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Bust out the clay tablets already
A client just asked for a 90MB 3D CAD file data to be sent on multiple storage mediums: 250MB Zip, 100MB Zip, CD-R, 128MB MO, and split up on floppies…
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Gaijin Like You
When the president of the staffing company (5,500 employees) you work for makes it a point to see you in person by pulling you from your desk in front of…
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Mac Adept
The manager for the packaging design department came to me with a blank procurement form last year and said, “Fill these out. We need a new Mac; you have 1,000,000…
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Salaryman Wept
Found an article from last month that hit close to home: Competition stiffens to work oneself to death Let Salaryman tell you something about dedication: Too much can kill, and…
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Of Lohms and Mindslaves
Lying on my desk is a document entitled: Lohms vs. Orifice Size I don’t know who put it there, but apparently I get to make a presentation on it later…
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The Return of Errandbot
There’s just nothing like taking a long vacation overseas and then facing up to that first day back at work, is there? The night before is spent wondering just how…
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Steady Diet of Work Screeds
Oh yeah, it’s my favorite time of the week, every week: The Friday Work Wind-down Period. This is the period that my employers should take special care not to speak…
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Work Request: Bran Muffins
Sometimes working in a factory office with constipated old men really has its downs. I have been waiting to take a crap for a couple of hours now. Its not…
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Must. Have. Chill. Pill.
Well, my Yapeus account is toast it seems. The admin hosed everybody’s moblog data, although they have a backup from September. I’m very glad I decided to consolidate all my…